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Embed a YouTube Video
Upload a video from your phone to YouTube and you can easily add it to your school website. Remember, you can make your videos private. Continue reading
Author: RebeccaHaden
Better Classroom Website in a Week: Thursday, Embed Some Resources
Yesterday we talked about linking to resources, but sometimes you may want to put classroom resources directly into the page. Here is one of the pages for my faculty website with a PowerPoint presentation embedded into it. My students are old enough to access it on their own, and I… Continue reading
Faculty Websites
Top 10 uses for your classroom web page! Continue reading
Better Classroom Website in a Week: Wednesday, Improve Your Resources Page
Resource pages are a useful feature of classroom websites. They give students, parents, and colleagues a handy guide to the sites that you like to recommend, support for homework, and a chance to share discoveries. If you give extra credit for completing online games or quizzes, this is a… Continue reading
Better Classroom Website in a Week: Tuesday, Fix Your Colors
On Sunday we figured out how to get into our web page to work on it, we decided the purpose of our page, and we refreshed our memory about the rules our school has for web pages. Monday we planned our layout and either made the boxes for our content… Continue reading
Cinco de Mayo Lesson Plans
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo in your classroom! Hold the margaritas, obviously, but otherwise it’s fiesta time! The first thing is to be sure not to call May 5 “Mexican Independence Day.” Mexico has an Independence Day in September. Cinco de Mayo is a day to celebrate the victory of a… Continue reading
Better Classroom Website in a Week: Monday, Plan Your Layout
Most of the classroom and faculty webpages we saw as we randomly wandered school websites really didn’t have any layout at all. With some excellent exceptions, faculty pages tend to have a box or two randomly placed on the page: In these examples, the school provides a frame that keeps… Continue reading
A Better Classroom Website in a Week
Let’s assume that you’re not a web designer and you don’t want to become one. Does that have to mean that your classroom wikki, faculty web page, or school website can’t be a high quality, usable site? We don’t think so. This week, we’re going to give you… Continue reading
Music Lesson Plans
Music makes information more memorable, trains the brain, and makes everything more fun, so you’ll find music in lots of our lesson plans on all kinds of subjects. Music is also worth studying for itself. Here are some of our music lesson plans: Pitch Rhythm Dynamics Blues Rock Ballads… Continue reading
Dynamics Classroom Activities
Dynamics in music are one of the hardest things to get across, yet they are one of the easiest ways to improve the sound of your musical performances. If you want your next in-class kazoo concert or your next serious performance for the parents to sound much more polished and… Continue reading
