I’m always on the lookout for web sites that offer free educational resources, so I was delighted to find a web site that enables you to make a scale model pyramid. If you are doing a project on Egypt, you’ll love this site! It has a printable full-color template and step-by-step instructions to assemble the four sheets into a remarkably realistic small pyramid. Bonus: Two printable sheets of stone patterns to make more models!

Have you been toying with the idea of setting up a web page? Aren’t sure where to start? I developed a set of step-by-step instructions for doing your first web page using Google Sites®, and some additional tips on web safety, copyright, digital photos, and other web-related issues. Bonus: Link to a site where you can publish online FREE!

I’m always on the lookout for new ways to use digital photos. Recently I’ve been experimenting with making them into jigsaw puzzles. The results are many different puzzle making options, including templates in IntelliTools Classroom Suite and HyperStudio 5 formats, PDF Puzzle Patterns for off computer puzzles, and a links to pages where you can make online puzzles, all using your photos.

I’ve found a web site that is a treasure trove of free online activities in areas across the entire curriculum. Actually, the link you see at the foot of this page leads to an index of Jo Edkins’ many separate educational pages.

Brianna is a bright young lady who daily faces great challenges, and does so with style! Now she has her own web site where you can watch her at work. She and her mother Dinell Stuckey hope that the videos on her site will be valuable to others who are helping kids like Brianna to develop study skills. I’ve put a link to her site at the foot of this page.

Intellitools Classroom Suite® is such a powerful application that you may wonder how you’ll ever learn all that it can do. The answer is, you can’t–but you really don’t need to learn everything to be a power user. One of the best ways to learn is to be a detective and dig into a finished activity that has a function you want to use to find out how it works. This workshop will equip you with the strategies you need to be an efficient detective. Bonus: A handout with 8 strategies!

Experimenting with what HyperStudio 5® can do is an integral part of using it. Saving often is the best plan, but when you’re having fun creating, you hate to break the flow of ideas. Roger Wagner gave me a quick tip on how to make a quick backup while you are working in HS5 on Mac. Bonus: A link to Roger’s Facebook page!

There is a wonderful timesaver hiding in the Edit menu of HyperStudio 5®. It’s the Group Card option under Ready Made Cards.
Image©2009 ABS Screen shot of HS5 Edit and Ready Made Cards menus showing Group Card option
Once you understand how Group Cards work and how to create them, you can make a stack much faster, come out with a much smaller file, have the layout on each card automatically match, and have a way to change settings in objects on all the cards in the stack at once. Bonus: PDF Quick Guide!

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.

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