Author Archives: David Willingham
The Bill of Rights Institute
Hello fellow Historians! Put your discovery caps on and come along on a journey into our nation’s past. As we travel through the exciting world of historical documents, we can make stops along the way at several different exciting learning modules. The Bill of Rights Institute is a non-profit organization specializing in providing educational resources on … Read more
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Calling All Art Teachers
Calling all Art teachers! Looking for a place to display student’s artwork, or a forum to share your student’s artwork with families and school communities throughout the world? Artsonia.com is precisely this place. One of the best parts of being an Art teacher is the ability to share the work that your students have created. … Read more
Teq PD Courses at Kean University
Over the next few months, Teq will be conducting after-school PD sessions at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. To see the full schedule of courses please visit teq.com/fall
We look forward to working with you!… Read more
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Teq SMART Board Certification Class in NYC
It’s time to start considering professional development opportunities for the upcoming school year. This fall, we are once again offering our popular certification course, SMART Boards in Today’s Classroom at the SMART Showroom in Manhattan. Successful completion of this course will provide 3 P-Credits that can be used for salary differentials for NYC educators.
The … Read more
Happy 107th Birthday Dr. Seuss
Read Across America is an annual reading motivation and awareness program for teachers, parents, and students. Every child in the community celebrates reading on March 2. This day is very special because it’s Dr. Seuss’ birthday!
To help celebrate Dr. Seuss’ 107th birthday head over to seussville.com and go exploring. This website is … Read more
Professional Development Opportunity in Queens!
Teq will be offering professional development on Thursday, January 13 in Queens. Each class is $75.
SMART Table
Thursday, January 13, 2011 from 8:30 AM – 11:30 AM (ET)
NYC Department of Education
8201 Rockaway Blvd
Queens, NY 11416
The SMART Table is a versatile learning center where groups of students can create, explore, and discover together. … Read more
Tumblebooks!
TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of TumbleBooks – animated; talking picture books, which teach, kids the joy of reading in a format they’ll love. TumbleBooks are created by adding animation, sound, music, and narration to existing picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book, which you can read, or have read to you. … Read more
Let’s Say Thank You to Our Veterans
With Veterans Day having just passed, you might want your students to send our Military men and women a thank you card. To honor U.S. military personnel and increase community morale, Xerox Corporation has created Let’s Say Thanks, a national program designed to deliver millions of cards to servicemen and women overseas with messages of … Read more
Happy Halloween!
To celebrate the upcoming All Hallows Eve, we have a found a couple of excellent Jack O’ Lantern carving activities that work beautifully on the SMART Board. The links are as follows:
Cubpack 81 – http://www.cubpack81.com/images/carve_pumpkin.swf
Theoworlds Halloween Activity – http://www.theoworlds.com/halloween/
Here is one we created earlier – see if you can do better!
Happy … Read more
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Windows 7 and click and drag problems on the SMART Board
For those early adopters out there who have updated to Windows 7, the good news is that Notebook 10.6 has full support for the new operating system. The bad news is that in order to get the SMART Board working perfectly, you need to make one small change to how Windows 7 deals with touch … Read more
