The Moss-Free Stone

We probably take more pictures and record more video during the summer than at any other time of year. Vacations or time spent outdoors in the warm summer sun offer many opportunities for gathering the raw materials of some fantastic multimedia projects. For teachers, it is also a rare opportunity to explore some great tools [...]

Lucky 13! The final installment of this semester’s 12 Second Tech Challenges focuses on a very useful tool, the Google Forms tool.
BISD 12 Second Tech Challenge #13 on 12seconds.tv
You will need to create a Google account, if you don’t already have one (and you really should). The video below shows you how it works. You [...]

This week’s 12 Second Tech Challenge is by far the easiest yet (The final one will make up for this, I promise!). It does require you to plan for the future, however.
BISD 12 Second Tech Challenge #12 on 12seconds.tv
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In 2007, the International Society for Technology [...]

Continuing with the theme of creativity, today’s challenge is to try out a very cool alternative to PowerPoint, Animoto.
BISD 12 Second Tech Challenge #10 on 12seconds.tv
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Animoto lets users create videos that incorporate images, music, and text into a very slick, professional-looking product. This would be a great tool [...]

Author David Dobbs recently shares yet another lukewarm study of educational software funded by the U.S. Department of Education in his blog. The news is familiar: “students using educational software do no better learning primary school math and first-year algebra than their counterparts who follow a traditional curriculum.” The study itself has many flaws, primarily [...]

This one is a little different. The next few challenges will revolve around creativity tools. For starters, the challenge is to try out the site Storyblender and create a narrated/animated scene or video. This site is a blast to use, and the creative possibilities are many! It is so fun, you might just want to [...]