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 [...]

Website of the Week: QR Code Treasure Hunt Generator (Gr. 4-12)

QR Code Treasure Hunt Generator – Get students using their mobile devices to move and to learn. If you’ve ever been shopping at just about any type of store, you’ve seen the bar codes they use to quickly scan and record the price of each item. Recently, a variant of the bar code called the [...]

Google Apps Tip – Calendar Gagdet

When I arrive at work in the morning, I start my routine by checking email. Often I find myself flipping back and forth between email and my Google calendar to coordinate meetings, To-Do items, and events on group calendars. There are times I wish I could see the days’ schedule right in Gmail while I [...]

PBS LearningMedia

PBS Learning Media – Fostering Classroom Innovation and Student Engagement PBS Learning Media is an online platform created to help teachers “re-imagine classroom learning” and integrate rich multimedia into lessons and activities. Currently there are over 14,000 resources available and can be filtered by grade level (Pre-K to 12+), subject (8), media type (document, audio, [...]

Magic and the Brain

Nova scienceNOW – Magic and the Brain In an effort to try to building on our understanding of how our brains work, scientists have turned to a group who has made a profession out of knowing how the brain perceives in order to deceive it: magicians. Watch as some well-known magicians share some (not all) [...]

BONUS #4: Digizen.org

Digizen.org – Helping Teachers, Parents and Kids become better DIGigtal citIZENS (Gr. 4-12) The Digizen website is full of topics and resources to help educate everyone on becoming ethical digital citizens in this world of ever-changing technology. Just some of the topics covered by the site include copyright, cyberbullying, plagiarism, selecting the perfect password and [...]

BONUS Website #2: Math By Design

Math By Design – Put on your thinking caps! (Gr. 6-10) Get your hard hat on and prepare to get down and dirty with geometry,  measurement and other math challenges. Mayor Barnum has contracted you for two major community projects: Renovate the Flossvile Town Park and design the new Windjammer Environmental Center. Each project comes [...]

Exploring The Far East

Exploring The Far East: Myers & Dalton Teams Each year 7th grade students at MSK immerse themselves in the diverse cultures, people and customs that exist in countries and how they compare to life here in Kennebunk, Maine. So please join us as we journey to China, Japan and other countries to learn about what [...]

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: YTTM

YTTM: YouTube Time Machine (Gr. 6-12) YTTM is an interesting spin on sorting through the vast archive of videos available from YouTube. Use the timeline provided at the top of the page to select a year you wish to investigate. The site will then randomly display a video from the time period. Use the filters [...]