by Roy Winkelman | Feb 1, 2021 | Using Digital Content
I recently gave a presentation in which I demonstrated how our various presentation elements with transparent backgrounds could be used in the foreground of a remote video lesson. I suddenly had lots of questions about how I had superimposed images in front of my...
by Roy Winkelman | Feb 1, 2021 | Using Digital Content, Lit2Go Audiobooks
Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln by Frederick Douglass Lit2Go free audiobook recording (26 minutes) PDF of the speech (6 pages, reading level 11.1) We live in an unhappy time of polarization, when many students (and perhaps their parents) don’t read news...
by Roy Winkelman | Feb 1, 2021 | Using Digital Content, Photo of the Month
Here is an interesting photo to show your students to see if they can guess who the sculpture represents. Don’t be surprised if they guess an ancient Roman emperor or perhaps even Zeus. Those really aren’t bad guesses, especially if they’ve noticed...
by Roy Winkelman | Dec 30, 2020 | Using Digital Content
FCIT has a great collection of counting resources for early childhood ed. There are photos, numeral sets, drawings, audio counting rhymes, posters, and more. Just one problem—they’re scattered all over various FCIT websites. For this post, I’ve done the...
by Roy Winkelman | Dec 30, 2020 | Using Digital Content, Photo of the Month
International Holocaust Remembrance Day falls on January 27. Over the past several decades, I’ve taken thousands of photos of Holocaust-related monuments across Europe for one of our projects. Most such monuments, of course, are intended to memorialize the...