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: Storyline Online (Gr. K-8)

Storyline Online – Virtual story readers in your classroom! Storyline Online is an absolutely wonderful literacy resource to get students excited about reading, writing, and the telling of stories. A program of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, this site contains 24 animated stories on such books as A Bad Case of Strips and Romeow & [...]

How-To Tech Tip: The Pleasantville Effect

This screencast will show you how to create a “Pleasantville Effect” (a.k.a. sin city effect) on an image. We will use the application Acorn that comes pre-installed as part of the MLTI image, although you can achieve the same effect using similar photo-editing software such as Adobe Photoshop. Find additional video tutorials at: http://rsu21itintegrate.wordpress.com/category/howto http://yorkschools.org/~elawson/teachers/techtip

Website of the Week: 24/7 Science (Gr. K-8)

24/7 Science – The best projects and activities whenever you want! From the Lawrence Hall of Science, this website is chalk full of interactive games and activities covering a wide variety of science topics. The first collection of activities are designed to be hands-on with titles like Sticky Situations and How Old is Your Penny? [...]

Website of the Week: Money Management (Gr. 2-12)

Money Management International – Improving lives through financial education This site contains a wide variety of tools and resources on topics ranging from budgets to financial wellness to how loans and debt work. For educators, click on Lesson Plans under the Resources menu to access 55 different lesson plans and activities, almost all of which [...]

Google Apps Tip – Historical Imagery

Historical Imagery – Using Google Earth to see change over time Historical Imagery is a fantastic, yet often overlooked tool found in the free application Google Earth. This tool allows the user to view a location on the planet at different points in time thanks to Google periodically updating its maps with newer satellite images. [...]

Mathnet & Mathman (Gr. 1-8)

Mathnet/Mathman – Show segments on YouTube If you don’t follow Richard Byrne’s blog Free Technology for Teachers then I strongly recommend you do so. In a recent post, Richard shared his discovery of episodes of Mathnet and Mathman, popular segments from the PBS television show Square One. For those who don’t know: Mathnet is a [...]

Website of the Week: Let Me Google That For You

LMGTFY – Empowering others with essential Internet skills The About page on the website says it all: “This is for all those people who find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than google it for themselves.” To start, type in the search term(s) that a student or colleague has asked you [...]

Website of the Week: LogoType Maker (Gr. 6-12)

LogoType Maker – Create & customize your own logo images LogoType Maker is a free, Flash-based web tool with an impressive archive of fonts, graphics, and templates for making logos and rich titles. Simply type in the text for your logo, then click the Generate LOGO button. If you don’t see one you like, click [...]

MLTI Minute: Text Substitution

MLTI Minute Podcast Episode 163: Text Substitution This podcast will show you how you can program your own text substitution and apply it globally to most Apps. installed on your Apple computer. The example in the podcast shows how to program the Mac to convert “LOL” automatically to, “That was quite a humorous statement. This [...]