Tag: TEACHERS

Mouse Mischief, from Microsoft, is a free add-on for PowerPoint 2007/2010 that lets teachers create multi-user presentations. PowerPoint presentations can be boring. When I say "can be," I'm being generous; they are usually quite boring and dull. On the other hand, they have the potential to really get your point across and deliver some new information to your audience, if you do them right. When ...

As a teacher, I know teachers are always looking for a good deal. But even as a free download, Lightes is not worth it. Many classrooms have a red/yellow/green system for behavior monitoring. Kind of like a stop light, red means stop, green means go. Pretty basic. The folks over at frontbridge computers made it a little too basic though. Lightes has three options. Red, yellow, green and off. ...

digg_url = "http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2008/02/12/five-ways-to-improve-technology-in-education/"; I was fortunate enough to see David Pogue's keynote on the opening day of the Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference this Monday in Hershey, PA. PETE&C is a state-wide conference aimed at bringing together school technology directors, teachers, principals, IT ...

In keeping the school theme we have been running with, a newer educational tool to enter the market is Edu 2.0. This web based education website that holds features for teachers, student and parents that aid in learning wherever the user is connected. There are four main sections to the site. A teaching section where teachers can host a class using a specially designed learning management system. ...

Teachers are getting their very own space in the social network scene, thanks to Yahoo! Yahoo! Teachers is the latest entry into the social network space. This social network collaborative space is a peer network put together by teachers and for teachers with the help of Yahoo!. When launched, it will allow teachers to create, modify and share standards based curriculum. Yahoo! Teachers is free ...

There are few more entertaining ways to pass the time on a flight than to pull out your copy of Skymall and begin inscribing funny quotations and thought balloons above the heads of the models hawking their wears. StoryTop takes that concept and makes it web based. StoryTop is a little JavaScript tool that lets you include elements from their library of people, animal, and background clipart and ...