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One of the Tech Ninja’s issues with Notebook 10 was the floating toolbar in both the Mac and Windows versions. I politely complained over at the Smart Exchange in the thread entitled Floating Tools Won’t Go Away. There has been much discussion and several suggestions on fixing the annoyance. The cool part is Smart actually […]
The Ninja’s favorite new video sharing site is edublogs.tv. Created by the same people who created edublogs, this is a site similar to TeacherTube or YouTube that allows teacher share their educationally related videos with the Internets. Bonus, there is no advertising on the site and if you embed the video into a blog, when […]
Today (April 22) is Earth Day! May the Tech Ninja humbly suggest the website Meet the Greens: A site for kids about looking after the planet. The Greens are a family who are looking for ways to help out planet Earth. Different “Green” topics are covered in “episodes” that is a collection of links from […]
While searching for video resources for the Pledge of Allegiance on YouTube I came across a song that explained the meaning of the Pledge in a fun and educational way. The song was by Teacher and the Rockbots. Currently they have four albums out. One about American, on over multiplication, one on Science and one […]
Smart has released Notebook 10 for download. You will need a serial number from a Smart device to register and unlock the software for more than a 30-Day trail. Once registered, that activation code can be used on multiple computers and multiple installs of Notebook. The first 10,000 to register can a free 60 MB […]
In an age of multiple formats for different types of media, it can get confusing even for a Tech Ninja. There’s .wma, .wmv, .mp3, .mp4, .flv, .mov, .doc, .txt, .htm, and the list goes on. It always seems to be the case that the format that you need in isn’t around. That is why it […]
Spelling City is a website that the Ninja’s class has been using for quite a few months. Teachers can add their spelling lists and then students can play games or even take tests online. There are a few things that the Ninja would like to see, like the ability to link to a specific spelling […]
Another education focused website for sharing video is SchoolTube.com. SchoolTube seems to be geared more to student produced information and videos rather than the teacher. In the Ninja’s humble opinion, SchoolTube is much more difficult to navigate and isn’t as user friendly at TeacherTube.
The edTech Ninja is a very busy person even with his faster than light movements. Even though, the Ninja makes sure that he always catches up with the SmartBoard Lesson Podcast. This useful and entertaining podcast contains mountains of useful information for SmartBoard users. From lessons that you can download to sites that you can […]
New beta version of the Notebook software is out now. You can download it here. The new version includes some very cool new features including themes, tables, alignment guides, and a new magic pen. And that’s not everything. This is of course is beta software which may not have all the bugs worked out. Upgrade […]