7 Good Screen Capture tools for Teachers

Have you ever been frustrated while  training students or staff on some new technology tool? Need a new screen capture tool for your technology toolkit?
Richard Byrne author of "Free Technology for Teachers" discusses 7 Good Screen Capture Tools for Teachers in his latest blog .

You Tube for Teachers

Good news for teachers! You Tube has launched a You Tube for Teachers. A slight variation from teacher tube
and School Tube, You Tube for Teachers will give teachers tips that show how to organize videos as well as offer discussions on how to help struggling students through the use of videos.

Why use You Tube in your Classroom?
1. Increase student engagement
2. Free access to thousands of high quality educational videos
3. Use videos to lengthen in-class instructional time
4. Expand your impact by reaching a larger audience.
Check out the article titled Five Reasons Why You Tube Rocks the Classroom if you need more reasons.

Harvard Education Letter

Came across this article in the Harvard Education Letter The title caught my attention, as an educator who oftened struggled to design thought provoking questions for my students. The article,Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions by Dan Rothstein & Luz Santana offers a different if not new perspective on learning, by having students design their questions using a Question Formulation Technique (QFT.) This technique helps students learn how to produce their own questions.
Teachers use QFT to introduce students to a unit, assess knowledge and to conclude a unit. The article includes all the steps you would need to understand and implement the process.

Snappy Words

No I am not talking about a list of words to use for quick comebacks, although Snappy Words might help improve your word choice.
We all like free web tools that our students can use Free Technology for Teachers.com provides teachers with free websites and resources that they can use in their classrooms.
Snappy Words is a free online visual dictionary and thesaurus. Enter any word or phrase into the Snappy Words search box and it will create a web of related words, phrases, and definitions. Hover your cursor over any word or phrase in the web to read its definition.

Check it out!



Linda Jones

What year are we really preparing students for?

I just love Dr. Hedi Hayes Jacobs! I came across this talk that she did for TEDxNYED. She always ask the question, "What year are you preparing your students for?" We may laugh at this question but when we really think about it, we are still far from the 21st Century that we like to pretend that we are preparing today's students for. Take a listen to what Jacobs has to say.



Dead Poets Society

Mr. Holland's Opus

Stand & Deliver

Why did I ever become a teacher?

I love this posting by Katie Stansberry found on the ITSE   (International Society for Technology in
Education )site. Sometimes in the hustle and bustle of beginning a new school year we forget what moved us to go into education in the first place.         hhttp://www.iste.org/connect/iste-connects/blog-detail/11-09-04/Inspirational_Videos_for_the_New_School_Year.aspx

Enjoy your year!