Weekend Update

First, the Technology Integration Teams would like to thank everyone who has viewed and commented on the blog posts so far.  Here are some interesting statistics that we wanted to share with you:
Number of posts: 3
Number of page views in January: 435
Number of page views in February: 1296
Number of comments: 81
Number of countries with at least 1 viewer:  11 (including Romania, Canada, France & Colombia)
That's right, we are international!!  It has been wonderful talking with colleagues about the different web tools and how they are using them in the classroom.  Keep up the great conversations!

We wanted to take a minute and bring to your attention one of our sponsors, TechSmith.

TechSmith is a great company filled with people who are passionate about helping teachers bring more technology into the classroom.  Some of their products that you may have heard of are Jing, Snagit, Camtasia Studio, and ScreenChomp.  All of these programs allow both teachers and students to create screencasts of their work to share on the Internet.  Jing and ScreenChomp are both free programs and we encourage you to try them out with your classes.  They are extremely easy to use and are designed for both the novice and advanced users.  Just a note, ScreenChomp is available only on the iPad.

In a later post, we will be introducing podcasts and screencasts and the TechSmith products will be highlighted for both their ease of use and their functionality.

Thank you to all of the people at TechSmith for their continued support for education and more importantly for helping us with giveaways for participants of this Web Challenge.