by Roy Winkelman | Hidden Gem, Using Digital Content
For the last few days, we’ve been thinking about hurricanes as Idalia was about to make landfall in Florida. A typical class activity is to track hurricane positions on a blank map. Younger students experiencing a hurricane warning or watch for the first time...
by Roy Winkelman | Hidden Gem, Using Digital Content
Usually in this space, I share a digital content collection from FCIT’s ClipArt, ClipPix, or Maps ETC websites. This month, we’ll look at a collection of robots I created for the Technology Integration Matrix website. The collection includes individual...
by Roy Winkelman | Hidden Gem, Using Digital Content
2004 is reasonably ancient in Internet Time. That’s when I started creating Presentations ETC, a website of resources that students and teachers could freely use to individualize their Powerpoint or Keynote presentations. At that time, I was visiting many...
by Roy Winkelman | Hidden Gem, Using Digital Content, Working with Graphics
Normally in this space, I share a digital resource for students and teachers. Today, I’d like to share a resource collection that was originally created for students and teachers, but may prove even more useful for administrators and staff of schools and...
by Roy Winkelman | Hidden Gem, Using Digital Content, Working with Graphics
ONG BEFORE THE PRINTED BOOK and before our modern conventions of paragraphs, sentence punctuation, or even spacing between words, writers of manuscripts would mark the start of a new section with a large (and often embellished) initial letter. These decorative...
by Roy Winkelman | Hidden Gem, Using Digital Content
This month’s “Hidden Gem” collection is from the Presentations ETC website. The Buttons section of this site includes over 21,000 images that can be used across subject areas from kindergarten counting exercises to high school application...