Should you teach programming skills to middle and high school students? Yes! Top 6 Reasons to Teach Programming to Your Students Learn Computational Thinking Skills: Programming makes a student think logically by using algorithms – step-by-step instructions to perform a function. If any of the steps are incorrect or inaccurate, the result has an error. […]
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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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Do you need to resize a batch of photos? Do you want to quickly convert multiple pictures to a new file type? You can! You can resize a batch of photos using Photo Gallery if you have Windows 7 or Windows 8. However, at this time you can only convert the file type to JPG.
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What is BYOD? BYOD or Bring Your Own Device is a policy that allows students to bring their own computing devices, such as smartphones, laptops, e-readers, tablets, or other mobile gadgets, to school for use on the school’s network. Sometimes, BYOD is referred to as BYOT or Bring Your Own Technology. This term is used
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Are you ready to have your students blog? Here are a few tips to help get you started! 1. Introduce Skills Gradually Blogging requires students to become familiar with technology they may not have used in the past. Don’t expect them to be experts right away! Gradually introduce students to the environment and tools so
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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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Foster a learning community! Engage your students by writing your own blog. Are you worried your students will not read your blog and it will be a waste of time? Make it a destination students want to visit. Give your students 5 reasons they need to visit your blog often: 1. Participate in Online Surveys
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Do you need to reduce the file size of more than one photo at a time? It is fast and easy to do a batch conversion of photos using Windows Live Photo Gallery. Windows Live Photo Gallery is a free program from Microsoft. If you have Windows 7 or 8 you can download this program.
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Since blogging is done online, there are some unique benefits for teachers that are not produced by other traditional writing assignments. Student blogs allow teachers to:
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The benefits to blogging go beyond writing the posts. There are numerous learning opportunities created by reading and commenting upon blog posts. This activity allows students to:
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