Directly skipping over the debate, if it is really necessary to dedicate specific (precious) time to teach AND practice keyboarding skills during school hours… our tech team was asked to “teach” keyboarding at our Elementary School.  Parents “demand” it, since it is something “visual” for them to understand that they child is “getting” technology instruction. [...]

Just found this amazing site, that allows students to create Character Trading Cards from Read Write and Think. Thank you CLong from Tech Integration in School.

Students will be asked question by question to fill out an analisis of a book character for example.

Once completed, students can print it out, to fold and then glue together. [...]

I have briefly highlighted a few screen capturing tools and keyboard shortcuts on Langwitches before. Here is a quick run down, links to original posts or links to the software website:

Windows Keyboard Shortcut

Capturing the entire desktop: Use the Print Screen button on your keyboard to place the image on your clipboard, then past (CTRL+V) the [...]

I must confess, that I love Image Generators. There are many cool sites out there that let you and your students easily upload one of your images and/or type in some text that will generate a new image for you to download and use. Students have absolutely loved playing with several ones of them and [...]

Here is a list of the plugins that I use on the Langwitches Blog, powered by WordPress

AddThis- Social Bookmarking Sharing Widget
Anarchy Media Player- will play any simple href link to mp3, flv, Quicktime mov, mp4, m4v, m4a, m4b, 3gp as well as Windows wmv, avi and asf files, in the appropriate player on your web [...]

I was simply blown away by Larry Ferlazzo and his amazing resource list of
The Best Ways For Students (And Anyone Else!) To Create Online Content Easily, Quickly & Painlessly
He found his niche and is THE LISTMASTER ! Hats off to him and keep those lists coming Larry.
The following list is the collection of resources [...]

Inspired by Teaching Sagittarius, I decided to start working on a post about Flickr. Since I am planning on introducing Flickr itself and its many mash-up programs to my faculty at school soon, this is a good time to compile resources I have been collecting on my del.icio.us account, tagged flickr.
The first question I will [...]