If you are lucky enough to have PowerPoint on your classroom computer and you have access to funds for computer apps, you might want to take a look at YawnBuster.  It is designed to enhance business presentations and corporate training by adding interactive activities and game show type competitions to PowerPoint presentations.   The activities [...]

Do you have your students make videos?  If you’ve never done it, this might be the time to try.  You can post student videos on the eSchool Student Video Network (SVN).  They even have resources to help you with video production.  Not all videos are chosen to go live, but at least they let you know within [...]

SHMOOP is still a Beta test (meaning it hasn’t been fully tested and is still being developed), but if what I’ve seen is part of the package, it’s definitely going to be a hit.  Their mission is to make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age.  Who can argue [...]

I can’t believe I just discovered TeacherTube.  It is a video sharing website based on YouTube, but started by a teacher for other teachers.  Teachers can share videos, documents, audio and photos.  It has a good search engine so you can focus in on your own subject.  The only downside is that there is a [...]

If you work with juniors or seniors, you might want to check out a website called YOUniversityTV.   It has virtual tours of about 400 colleges and universitites.   Even teachers of younger students might be able to use this site.  There’s a great interactive map that highlights each state as you run the cursor over it.  That [...]