Website of the Week: Squishy Circuits (Gr. 2-10)

Squishy Circuits – A project for all ages Squishy Circuits is a wonderful hands-on activity that is designed to teach students of all ages about electrical engineering and circuits in particular using play dough. The site includes directions with materials and measurements on how to make your own conductive and insulating dough. Click on the [...]

Website of the Week: Find That File (Gr. 6-12)

Find That File – Search for content by file type (Gr. 6-12) Find That File is an Internet search engine designed to help users find content by media file type. For example, let’s say you would like to find an audio recording of MLK Jr. “I Have A Dream” speech. Simply enter your search criteria [...]

Website of the Week: Timelines

Timelines: Sources from History (Gr. 4-12) Provided by the British Library, Timelines allows users to explore a variety of topics throughout history as far back as 1210 A.D. and as recent as the first decade of the 21st century. Once you launch the timeline, use the navigation controls at the bottom of the window to [...]

How-To Tech Tip: Merging PDF Files in Snow Leopard

New post from Lawson Labs: “Snow Leopard makes merging PDF files a snap. Simply drag another PDF file to the side bar of an open PDF file in preview and save the file.” Find additional video tutorials at: http://rsu21itintegrate.wordpress.com/category/howto http://yorkschools.org/~elawson/teachers/techtip

EDCompass Newsletter: September 2010

Check out the August issue of the EDCompass Newsletter, put out by SMART Technologies. Download Issue (PDF 3.01 MB) RSU 21 SMART Share Center

Website of the Week: CNN Student News

CNN Student News – (Gr. 5-12) CNN’s Student News bureau covers news that students should know to stories students will want to know. Topics range from serious news stories reflecting current events to stories on the lighter side of the spectrum. Many of the stories are streaming video-based, so Flash is required to use the [...]

Website of the Week: Print Friendly

PrintFriendly.com – A better way to print webpages (Gr. K-12) Webpages today are rarely designed to be printer-friendly. In most cases, the end result is a document that uses more paper and ink than needed. Enter Print Friendly; just copy the URL of the page you want to print and paste it into Print Friendly’s [...]

EDCompass Newsletter: March 2010

Check out the March issue of the EDCompass Newsletter, put out by SMART Technologies. Download issue (PDF 1.58 MB).