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04/30/2014 It's Wednesday, April 30th, 2014 and welcome to Episode 164 of TechTalk4Teachers, I'm Tom Grissom.  Welcome to the TechTalk4Teachers podcast, the show about teaching and learning with technology. I am going solo today as Cindy Rich is off to a Directors meeting with the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. and Mike Gioia is off to the Champaign-Urbana area today. In this episode... I discuss using Open Educational Resources and how we designed a learning experience for a local 3rd and 4th grade field trip to Eastern Illinois University. I  will finish up with my Technology Pick of the Week. Click on the Player to listen to this podcast (requires Adobe Flash) TechTalk4Teach ers or Right Click Here to Download MP3 (16 minutes 58 seconds) Show Note Links  3rd Grade Concept Map of the Desert Example Green Screen picture (Before)  Example Green Screen picture (After) A big thank you to Karen Fasimpaur for letting us use her desert pictures for our project. This s

St George's Day 23rd April St George is the patron saint of England. Saint George is celebrated on this day which falls on 23 April every year. To celebrate St George's Day is to celebrate England itself: Our history, culture and heritage that has created our nation. Patron saints are chosen as special protectors of life and culture. They're also a great excuse to have some fun! Like England,

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I don't know about you, but there are lots of times that I just want a quick visual timer to set for different activities in the classroom.  Google has solved this problem in a their usual brilliant way.  Just google the words "google timer" and a timer just pops up.  You can set the time and it does a great countdown.  You can also make the timer full screen.  So easy.  So google.