HowTo Tech Tip: Have you checked your Facebook Apps. recently?

Facebook App Check – Who has access? Last week I was on Facebook and a friend shared a news article that they had read and the title peeked my interest. When I clicked on the link, instead of being directed to the article I was first prompted to allow some App. access to my Facebook [...]

How-To Tech Tip: This is How Twitter Works

Mom, This is how Twitter works – Handy tips for everyone! For those of you who may not know, Twitter is a popular social networking service that allow users to share news, events, and links with one another via posts that must be 140 characters or less. Some people use Twitter to share resources with [...]

App of the Week Review: The Monster at the End of This Book

This week Hillary Brumer over at Techno Bytes reviews an interactive storybook App called The Monster at the End of This Book. This was so my favorite book when I was a kid; I think my parents had to actually buy the book twice because I wore out the first one. And come on, who [...]

Website of the Week: Changing the Balance

Changing the Balance – Digital assets investigating climate change (Gr. 6-12) Changing the Balance dives into the debates around climate change by investigating the story of some unlikely players in this game: blood-thirsty parasites. As students progress through the story they will learn about mosquitoes, Malaria, the West Nile virus and how climate change has [...]

Website of the Week: Guess the Wordle

Guess the Worlde: A new puzzle everyday! (Gr. 3-12) Guess the Wordle provides daily wordle puzzles and asks users to figure out the word that links all the synonyms together. A wordle is a tag cloud, often generated from a piece of written text that depicts the vocabulary used in the text and the frequency [...]

Website of the Week: Rag Linen

Rag Linen: An online museum of historical newspapers (Gr. 6-12) Rag Linen is an educational gold mine that contains archives of rare and historic newspapers. Most of the collections focus on news and events from North America and U.S. history. In addition to newspapers, the site also offers video resources, recommended books on the history [...]

PBS: The Secret Life of Scientists

Geologist & Bassoonist: Adrienne Block http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/secretlife/scientists/adrienne-block/ Additional Resources: Adrienne’s Ice Stories Blog Antarctic mountains discovered by Adrienne’s team Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory COSM Chamber Orchestra