TILT - Teachers Improving Learning with Technology

TILT - Teachers Improving Learning with Technology episodes:

• 06.24.2010

  Using the Pecha Kucha Presentation Technique with Students

  The Pecha Kucha presentation essentially involves 20 media-rich slides with little or no text voice-narrated for no longer than 20 seconds per slide for a total presentation time of 6 minutes, 40 seconds.  In this episode you'll see an overview...

  
• 03.05.2010

  TILT - Create a Classroom Magazine with PowerPoint

  Microsoft PowerPoint is software which is present in most of our schools, however it can be used for so much more than presentations. In this episode, you'll see how PowerPoint can be used to create a beautiful classroom magazine. While the...

  
• 01.28.2010

  Student-created Graphic Organizer Activities to Enhance Visual Literacy & Deepen Learning

  Having students create their own graphic organizers with key words or phrases, multimedia, connections, color, and layout can be a great way for them to develop visual literacy and thinking skills, construct and represent knowledge, and show the connections between...

  
• 12.07.2009

  TILT - Multiple Unique Email Addresses for Student Web 2.0 Services Using a Single Gmail Account

  There are many excellent web 2.0 tools that can enhance learning and allow students to communicate what they know, such as Animoto.com/education, Prezi.com, and GoAnimate.com. One of the issues for teachers, however, is that some of these tools require unique...

  
• 09.30.2009

  TILT - iPhones in Classrooms

  tweetmeme_url = ''; In this episode, we'll look at four elements of the iPhone which make it a great educational tool for a teacher and students: Still/video camera and apps to edit/enhance photos (00:43) Audio recorder (04:15) iPod/iTunes (05:04) Blogging apps...

  
• 03.28.2008

  TILT - Slideshows and Video Projects to DVD the Easy (and Free) Way

  The thought of burning photo slide shows, PowerPoint presentations, and video projects to DVD as a way of sharing schoolwork with home is desirable to many teachers. With Windows XP however, too often it means having to buy software. In...

  
• 05.19.2007

  TILT Episode 16 - Multimedia Storybooks with PowerPoint 2003

  We know that our students learn better through multiple representations of the same idea, not to mention the engagement that multimedia can offer our students. With text, animation, narration, and the ability to insert video/audio clips, using PowerPoint to create...

  
• 01.16.2007

  TILT Episode 15 - Creating a Timeline with Microsoft Excel

  Many of us in schools have access to Microsoft Excel, but finding a variety of uses for this powerful program can be challenging. In this tutorial episode, we will use Microsoft Excel to create a simple yet interactive and media-rich...

  
• 10.23.2006

  TILT Episode 14 - So You Want to be a Vidcaster?

  Quite a few people have asked me about how I create TILT episodes. Some want to have their students create their own vidcasts/vodcasts/videoblogs/screencasts and some are interested in creating their own, either for their students, their staff, or for the...

  
• 10.06.2006

  TILT Episode 13 - Math Fact Websites are FUN!

  Students and teachers from grades 2-9 and beyond often struggle with learning basic math facts. As educators, we know how important memorizing these facts can be in learning numerous other math concepts, yet learning these facts can be a difficult,...

  
• 09.06.2006

  TILT Episode 12 - Web Applications Part 2

  In this episode, we'll feature 4 fantastic web-based applications that can have you and your students using some incredibly-functioning, feature-rich applications without the need to install anything. As the episode title suggests, these applications and tools run right in your...

  
• 06.01.2006

  TILT Episode 11 - Technology for Thinking

  Some say that technology does not improve student learning, and have plenty of data to back it up. Others say the reason for that is that teachers aren't teaching differently with technology than they do in their classrooms. I say...

  
• 04.20.2006

  TILT Episode 10 - Beginning Excel in the Classroom

  Most teachers I've talked to want to use Microsoft Excel with their students but don't know where to begin. This episode guides you through a simple but interesting project with Excel which involves doing a real-time survey, entering that data...

  
• 03.12.2006

  TILT Episode 9 - Educational Blogging Part 2

  Teachers are doing many things with weblogs in their classrooms. In this episode, we feature some of those blogs as well as interview a Seattle teacher, Bre Pettis, about how he uses blogs with his art students. Right-click to save...

  
• 02.21.2006

  Episode 3 - Educational Robotics

  Episode 3 - Educational Robotics

  
• 02.21.2006

  Episode 4 - Online Literature

  Episode 4 - Online Literature

  
• 02.21.2006

  Episode 2 - Digital Pictures in the Classroom

  Episode 2 - Using Digital Pictures in the Classroom

  
• 02.21.2006

  Episode 1 - Using the Internet to Enhance Writing

  Episode 1 - Using the Internet to Enhance Writing

  
• 02.16.2006

  TILT Episode 8 - Teaching Area, Perimeter, and Scale Drawing with Microsoft Word

  In this episode, we look at how teaching the math concepts of area, perimeter, and/or scale drawing can be enhanced using a tool most of us have, Microsoft Word. Right-click here to download the MPEG-4 Video (24 MB) Click here...

  
• 12.21.2005

  TILT Episode 7 - Multimedia Animation Using PowerPoint

  In this episode, we look at 3 techniques students (and teachers) can use to create animations in PowerPoint: 1) Custom animation built into PowerPoint (2:27) 2) Keyframe animation with 'Duplicate Slides' and/or with sprites (7:25) 3) 'Flash-once' animation (10:41) I've...

  
• 12.02.2005

  TILT Episode 6 - Educational Blogging Part 1

  In this episode we'll begin to examine the learning possiblilities with student blogging. We'll briefly look at some issues associated with student bloging and go for a quick tour of some free blogging platforms for educational blogging. We'll finish by...