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15 Slide Show Tools For Teachers  (click title for download page)

This resource is a contribution from Karen Schweitzer, a freelance writer and copy editor who is the Business School Guide for About.com. 15 Slide Show Tools for Teachers is an article that links to a selection of useful (and free) sites that can be used to create, present, and publish slide shows. Bonus: Links to three more sites with free resources!


Posted: October 24th, 2009 - 2:10 am.    Number of Comments » 1.
HyperStudio Is Back!  (click title for download page)

I’ve begun to create activities in HyperStudio 5® and find much to like about this new version of an old and beloved multimedia application. The biggest difference I saw right away is a modernized interface, making it much faster and easier to build activities. Bonus: Links to download players for both new and old version stacks!


Posted: October 23rd, 2009 - 6:57 pm.    Number of Comments » 3.
Boomerang  (click title for download page)

This Classroom Suite® activity has a new frame animation, a spinning boomerang, to use in creating IntelliMation® in your activities. It also explains how to save the boomerang button into your User Library so that you can grab the boomerang from the Picture Library whenever you need it.


Posted: October 2nd, 2009 - 4:22 pm.    Number of Comments » 0.
Multi-Choice Test Templates  (click title for download page)

Multi-Choice Test Templates includes Microsoft Word®, Clicker 5® and Classroom Suite® versions of templates I have developed to create the tests that become part of the activity sets here in the Attic. They are the result of much trial and error, and in their present form, they save me a great deal of time. So it’s time to make them available to you as well


Posted: July 6th, 2009 - 10:28 am.    Number of Comments » 2.
Log Cabin  (click title for download page)

Remember those wonderful Lincoln logs we played with? Here’s a chance to build a virtual log cabin. When it’s finished, students use the magic of their imaginations to go inside and see the furnishings of a real cabin. There’s a surprise when they look out the window and see a bear looking in! Bonus: Log Cabin Clip Art collection to download!


Posted: April 18th, 2009 - 4:32 pm.    Number of Comments » 3.
Pixels and Megapixels, Oh My!  (click title for download page)

Digital cameras, graphic editing applications, and multimedia applications are natural partners. But with so many choices for graphics formats, resolutions, display size, and print out size, it can be very confusing! The tips in Pixels and MegaPixels, Oh My! will hopefully make it a little easier to get those graphics into a project. Bonus: Example Photos and tutorial!


Posted: April 18th, 2009 - 4:32 pm.    Number of Comments » 0.
No Phishing!  (click title for download page)

Phishing is the practice of unscrupulous people setting up fake versions of legitimate web sites, often popular and excellent sites they know that many people will visit. Anti-Phishing Phil is an interactive game that teaches users how to identify phishing URLs, where to look for cues in web browsers, and how to use search engines to find legitimate sites. Play it FREE online!


Posted: April 18th, 2009 - 4:32 pm.    Number of Comments » 1.
Shake It Up!  (click title for download page)

I wanted to give you a heads-up about a site that offers a chance for students to do some real science. The Quake-Catcher Network offers a chance for you and your students to actually be a part of an earthquake detection network. The web site also includes science resource downloads about earthquakes, including PDFs aimed at grades K-12.


Posted: April 18th, 2009 - 4:32 pm.    Number of Comments » 0.
Green Frisbee  (click title for download page)

This Classroom Suite® activity has a new frame animation, a green spinning frisbee, to use in creating IntelliMation® in your activities. The animation is contained in a toolbar button. Bonus:
It also explains how to save the green frisbee button into your User Library!


Posted: April 18th, 2009 - 4:31 pm.    Number of Comments » 0.
Trucks  (click title for download page)

Ten Trucks uses photos and a “red fish, blue fish” style vocabulary to engage beginning readers and help them work with adjectives. There are all kinds of truck photos, ending with a very cool custom painted truck. Students use errorless and guided writing activities to work with adjectives. In the highest level writing activity, My Cool Trucks, students custom-paint their own cool truck images and write about them. Bonus: Lots of truck photos and clip art to download!


Posted: December 10th, 2008 - 3:51 pm.    Number of Comments » 2.