Bookmaking activities offer many benefits to students. Have your students make accordion, flip, folding books, and more. Bookmaking Activities and Templates Are you looking for bookmaking templates? TechnoKids Inc. has a technology project, TechnoBookmaking, with over 10 inspiring templates. Discover the possibilities!
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November 2022 Update: There is a newer, updated list of sound libraries here: Free Sound Libraries for School Technology Projects Looking for music or sound effects to enhance a digital project? Here are some sites offering free downloads that are legal for use in any educational, non-commercial application.Caution: Some sound collections may contain sounds inappropriate for
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As educators, we strive to promote a climate of respect. Bullying behavior is evident on the playground, but it is more difficult to detect and respond to when it takes place online. In addition, students need to recognize cyberbullying. They need to know when the line is crossed and a joke or teasing has gone
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As teachers, we know that it’s more powerful for students to see things than to read or hear about them. Webcams have been available for decades, but they can still be an effective educational resource to hook students. Live-action webcams can bring distant places to life, students can produce their own video to complete creative
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In TechnoBookmaking, students make, print, and share books. The bookmaking lessons have students become authors and illustrators of fiction and non-fiction books. They use templates to make a picture book, flip flap story, unfolding riddle book, layer book of facts, bookmarks, greeting card, and more! Extension activities include additional templates that offer unlimited creativity. Rethink
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What do you think about using webcams as part of your curriculum unit? Read each statement. If you answered a, b, or c read on!Here are some tips for you and your students when looking for webcam sites: museum webcam underwater webcam railway webcam ski webcam zoo cams theme park webcam traffic webcam live New
When Adobe changed the name of Flash to Animate CC, many new features were added. You can read about them here but I’m just going to highlight two of my favorite new and not-so-new tools. Animate Paint Brush Tool This new tool adds to the capability of the original Brush Tool. It includes Art and
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Straighten a picture in Photoshop using the new Content-Aware feature. You may have a crooked photo that would look better if it was straighter. First, crop using the Straighten option. This option allows you to set the horizon line and then apply a Content-Aware feature to edit the picture. Here’s how in 10 quick and
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Have your students sent and received online greeting cards? Here are some tips to make finding, sending, and receiving e-Cards in the classroom a fun, easy, and worthwhile activity. Try Different Web Browsers: Some e-Cards need the Flash program to show the message. If your web browser will not play Flash animation, try another web
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Integrate Google Forms Quizzes into Learning Did you know you can create quizzes using Google Forms that automatically calculate a score and report results? You can! Aside from making your own quizzes to test student knowledge, you can have students build their own trivia quizzes. Google Forms Quizzes is a feature that transforms any form
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