Author name: Christa Love

Christa Love, Curriculum Developer & Teacher ~ I am passionate about blending technology into curriculum. Whether it is programming, video production, graphic design, or digital citizenship, I am interested in how apps and tools can be used to enhance learning. Throughout the years I have designed many TechnoKids technology projects. My favorite part of curriculum development is field-testing the ideas to determine the activities that work best in real classrooms. I write about what I have learned that can save teachers time in their own curriculum planning.

BYOD

BYOD Enhances the Learning Environment

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Students having their own device throughout the school day enhances the learning environment. This is because it allows teachers to incorporate new teaching practices, instructional materials, activities, assessment tools, and communication methods. With BYOD, teachers can: develop inquiry-based learning opportunities design innovative learning opportunities increase access to information provide timely feedback adjust instruction using flexible […]

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Make a Digital Footprint Bulletin Board

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Do you need materials to create a bulletin board in your computer lab or classroom about digital citizenship? To help your students take responsibility for their actions and encourage them to think before they act, TechnoKids created a set of digital footprints. Each print has the name of a use of technology, such as blog,

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BYOD and student learning

BYOD Improves Student Learning

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Students having their own computing device throughout the school day transforms learning. With BYOD in place a teacher can incorporate new teaching practices, instructional materials, activities, assessment tools, and communication methods that were previously not possible. This change has the capacity to alter dramatically student experiences. Discover the educational value of BYOD and the ways

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Teach HTML 5 and CSS to Beginners

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TechnoKids has just released TechnoHTML5. In TechnoHTML5, students became web designers. Using HTML and CSS they develop a web page with text, graphics, and hyperlinks. Upon completion, the files are uploaded to the Internet. Your students begin by editing web page templates provided with TechnoHTML5 to learn HTML elements and CSS attributes. Afterwards, they complete

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How to Add Research Options Services in Office 2010 or 2007

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In Microsoft Word 2010 or 2007, your students should be able to access a dictionary or the Bing search engine, when they click the Research command on the Review tab. If this feature is not working follow these ten steps to manually add Research Options in Microsoft Word. UPDATE 8/22/2022: TechnoKids continues to develop technology

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