Digital Bytes – 12th June, 2017

10 Great Places to Find Background Music For Video We all know the difference music can make in video to help set the mood and support the visual component. We have already looked at Creator Studio which is part of your YouTube account and is a great source of free music. Here are 10 more…

Digital Bytes 9th January 2017

Garageband in the Reading Classroom Garageband is on our computers and iPads and this article shares a number of ways that you can use it in your reading classroom. Whether is it capturing book talks, creating a musical accompaniment, capturing the voice of a book character in an interview or exploring the different instruments from…

Learning How to Focus

Take a look at the photo below. What does it tell you? What do you notice? It tells me that with close to 60 tabs open, this student was so distracted by the extension that he/she wasted a significant amount of time being off task. The worrying thing is that if this student continues these patterns…

Digital Bytes – 18 January 2016

TED: The Year in Ideas 2015 Highlights of last year’s TED talks are categorised into groups such as, “This year, humanity dared to take bold steps forward,” and “We desired a brave new world… Straight out of science fiction.” The 2015 talks are just as incredible as previous years, so make sure you take a…

Digital Bytes – November 2, 2015

The haze we have experienced over the past few months in Singapore has brought the conversation of palm oil to the front of everyone’s thoughts. This website does an amazing job of exploring the use of palm oil and uses a variety of media such as videos, infographics, sounds, text, photos and interactive elements. We…

Digital Bytes October 26th, 2015

15 Great Chrome Extensions for Educators Chrome Extensions can help to make our lives easier and there are some great ones available for educators. Have a look at 15 great chrome extensions for educators including Pixlr Editor, Padlet, Exit Ticket, and Multi-Highlight. The Psychology of Selfies Selfies have become part of our lives and our…

Digital Bytes 7 September 2015

This week’s Digital Bytes features a Chrome extension to remove distracting advertisements and related articles from online reading, a great Stop Motion activity for your students, and a blog post about the wonderful classroom designs on display at UWCSEA East.