Subject: How to Take Better Notes; Recording Lectures, Meetings
Grades: Middle School to College, Businesses, Marketing, Tech Institutes
Latest Smartpen
Last year I reviewed the 1 GB Smartpen. It worked great recording lectures in the pen, and notes written on Livescribe’s special memory paper. My daughter dashed off with it to college. And I bought one [...]

Subject Matter: Using play cards and the card game “War” to teach Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division and Fractions
Grades: All ages
War Party
This math game has probably been thought of, but I haven’t seen it on the Internet. Here’s a simple, yet competitive way to motivate students to learn math. Play individually, as teams, [...]

Subject Matter: Creating Claymation Movies Using PowerPoint and Videos to teach STEM; Combine science, art and technology
Grades: Upper Elementary to High School

What’s Your Story?
I’m writing a hands-on, elementary grade science issues for Science Weekly. My topic is the Science of Movies. Yet, how do you teach this topic when every schools may [...]

Subject Matter: Create, Remix and Share Music
Grades: Ages 7-12
Keep Clam with Music
Ok, here in the Northwest we say “Keep Clam” (our version of Be Cool). Yes, it’s a northwest thing (Puget Sound stuff, home of Jimmy Hendricks & Pearl Jam). Sibelius is definitely clam on music, since they have various software programs [...]

Subject Matter: Free k-12 education sites covering various subjects
Grades: Primary, secondary or K-12
For the New Year
I seem to be uncovering lots of new websites. Yes, I’m still reviewing, in fact my desk is stacked with books, music software, etc. Yet if I come across these sites, I better post them, or I’ll forget.
Tech:)Happy [...]

Subject Matter: 12 different sites to incorporate technology in the classroom
Grades: All grades; Businesses, Marketing
Lots of cool sites out there, but here are 12 websites that can get you started applying Ed Tech in the classroom, or small businesses.
From creating documents, alternates to YouTube to edublogs, check these resources.
Tech Integration in the Classroom

Subject Matter: How to learn Adobe Photoshop Elements 8
Grades: Elementary to College beginners to intermediate students in photo editing

Easy as 1-2-3
There are several books available to learn Adobe Photoshop Elements 8. One of the better ones I’m reviewing is Teach Yourself Visually: Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 by Mike Wooldridge, and published by Wiley.