by Mike Agostinelli | Aug 26, 2014 | Announcements, How-To, Media
Welcome back! We hope everyone had a great summer vacation! We wanted to start off the first post of the new school year with a useful tool in increase fluency in your classroom. This process only requires one computer, so this should be useful to almost every...
by Dr. Jason Neiffer | May 22, 2014 | How-To, Make!
With summer coming soon, many teachers are looking for a fun, challenging project this summer to totally up their game on hacking and make skills. The Tech-Savvy Teachers recommend an Arduino, the inexpensive microcontroller. What’s an Arduino, you ask? Make...
by Mike Agostinelli | Apr 29, 2014 | Announcements, Ask a Tech Savvy Teacher, Get your geek on!, How-To
We recently were asked about the best ways to record audio using an iPad. This is actually a question that requires some thought as there are many solutions. Depending on your desired outcome, some ways are better then others. Below are scenarios in the classroom...
by Dr. Jason Neiffer | Apr 18, 2014 | How-To, PowerPoint
I know, I know, the cool kids think PowerPoint sucks. I have actually seen well-meaning trainers trash on PowerPoint and then preach alternatives, only to commit the same sins on Prezi, or KeyNote, or OpenOffice. The problem here isn’t the tools, it is the person...
by Mike Agostinelli | Apr 1, 2014 | Announcements, How-To, Media, NCCE Members, Professional Development
I presented a session on Twitter 101 for educators a few weeks ago at NCCE 2014. This post is the evolution of that initial presentation. One attendee of that session was Matt Rosenberg @MattRosenberg3. From my presentation he just created a great YouTube video...
by Mike Agostinelli | Mar 19, 2014 | Get your geek on!, How-To
Today’s post is a gift for Mac users that follow our blog. Have you ever had a bunch of picture you needed converted to .jpeg format? If so, I have small program that will take a folder of different picture files and automatically convert them all to .jpeg...
