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 [...]

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: 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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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: HistoryTeachers Channel

HistoryTeachers – History for Music Lovers (Gr. 6-12) Created by two history teachers from Honolulu, Hawaii, HistoryTeachers has over 50 music videos that cover such topics as Napoleon, The French Revolution, Shakespeare, Pompeii, Vikings and more. Their YouTube channel has been going strong for almost 3 years now with new videos being uploaded about once [...]

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

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 [...]

How-To Tech Tip: Download Videos from the Net

New post from Lawson Labs: “There are some great videos on Internet sites for the classroom such as YouTube, but how do you download these files to your computer? This is a handy tip to download videos locally to your computer, so that you do not have to rely on speedy Internet connections or receive [...]