by edtechninja | Oct 25, 2008 | IWB, Posts, Social Studies
Presidential Elections are coming up in the United States. Even among children there is high interest in this tradition that occurs every four years. This election will prove to be a historic one. For younger students, the way US Presidents are elected can be...
by edtechninja | Sep 13, 2008 | IWB, Posts
As reported earlier, Smart Technologies recently released a new piece of software called Notebook Student Edition (NSE). According to Smart, “It caters to nonlinear, higher order thinking and enables them to manage, sort and categorize their in-class and at-home...
by edtechninja | Aug 28, 2008 | IWB, Posts
Smart has just released a new piece of software. The Ninja is installing it now. The new software is called SMART Notebook Student Edition (SE). The program is only in BETA right now which means if you don’t feel comfortable playing around with what could be...
by edtechninja | Aug 18, 2008 | IWB, Posts
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...
by edtechninja | Aug 17, 2008 | Featured, General Templates, IWB, Posts
The edTech Ninja is back in school. School started August 12. The Ninja always likes to do a getting to know you activity on the first day or week of school. This year, the little ninjas worked in pairs on a SmartBoard Notebook file that was designed to get students...
by edtechninja | Jul 21, 2008 | Ask the Tech Ninja, Featured, IWB, PD/Training, Posts, Video
The Tech Ninja frequently gets questions about how he gets video from popular video sharing sites like YouTube, Vimeo, Google Video, Eyespot, GodTube, Internet Archive – Movies, or teacher related video sites like TeacherTube, and SchoolTube and then embed them...