National Geographic aerial photos of animals and people in Africa can be found in Google Earth by clicking the National Geographic icons, and there is a kmz file you can download that has the groups of animals labeled. The video above shows how it looks, but you can find them… Continue reading
Think of a lesson that combines careful observation, patience, art, technology, storytelling, and investigation. Photography! We’re excited to have some advice from Annie Griffiths, author of National Geographic Simply Beautiful Photographs and A Camera, Two Kids, and a Camel: My Journey in Photographs. Griffiths was one of the first female… Continue reading
We’ve looked at the absolute basics for creating a teacher website that will make a positive impression and be useful to students and parents. We’ve given you some ideas for using your website for more than just a page with your name on it. And we’ve provided some resources… Continue reading
Upload a video from your phone to YouTube and you can easily add it to your school website. Remember, you can make your videos private. Continue reading
Yesterday we talked about linking to resources, but sometimes you may want to put classroom resources directly into the page. Here is one of the pages for my faculty website with a PowerPoint presentation embedded into it. My students are old enough to access it on their own, and I… Continue reading
Top 10 uses for your classroom web page! Continue reading
Resource pages are a useful feature of classroom websites. They give students, parents, and colleagues a handy guide to the sites that you like to recommend, support for homework, and a chance to share discoveries. If you give extra credit for completing online games or quizzes, this is a… Continue reading
On Sunday we figured out how to get into our web page to work on it, we decided the purpose of our page, and we refreshed our memory about the rules our school has for web pages. Monday we planned our layout and either made the boxes for our content… Continue reading
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo in your classroom! Hold the margaritas, obviously, but otherwise it’s fiesta time! The first thing is to be sure not to call May 5 “Mexican Independence Day.” Mexico has an Independence Day in September. Cinco de Mayo is a day to celebrate the victory of a… Continue reading
Most of the classroom and faculty webpages we saw as we randomly wandered school websites really didn’t have any layout at all. With some excellent exceptions, faculty pages tend to have a box or two randomly placed on the page: In these examples, the school provides a frame that keeps… Continue reading
