Posted in General Technology, Presentations, Web Tools on Aug 29th, 2008 No Comments »
In my prior post, I wrote about Wordle. This is a great tool; however, as with anything on the Internet, you need to be aware of the inappropriate content. There is a Gallery with Worlde that, as mentioned before, can contain inappropriate words. On the Wordle home page, the latest Wordles created are shown. To [...]
Posted in General Technology, Presentations, Web Tools on Aug 29th, 2008 4 Comments »
Discovered this site the other day and thought — wouldn’t this be great for students to use the beginning of the school year?
http://wordle.net
Wordle is a tool that looks at the text you provide (students can type in words that describe themselves; words that describe their choice for presidential candidate; words that describe what they want [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 21st, 2008 1 Comment »
Now that we know a way to download the YouTube videos and play them, here is a listing of Top 100 YouTube Videos for Teachers. The list is sorted into area such as History, Science, Language, Arts, Inspiration, Classroom Management, How Tos and Guides, Technology and Humor. Enjoy!
http://www.smartteaching.org/blog/2008/08/100-best-youtube-videos-for-teachers/
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Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 21st, 2008 No Comments »
I was just doing some work on embedding video into an Edublog post when I happened to find this wonderful wiki by Miguel Guhlin on downloading videos from YouTube (which is what most of us have to do because YouTube is blocked at our schools).
I was looking into this about a week ago but didn’t [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 21st, 2008 No Comments »
As part of the training I am giving to teachers in our district, I am pointing out how easy it is to embed a video hosted on TeacherTube into my blog. You find the video you are interested in, copy the Edublogs embed code located on the right-hand side of the video. Create a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Cyberbullying
Here is an excellent video on Cyberbullying — it is under one minute but gets the point across. Great to show students.
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Posted in Multimedia, Presentations, Web Tools on Aug 12th, 2008 1 Comment »
TPDS – who are they? They are “tech savvy” teachers who have agreed to help others in their school with technology. TPDS is an acronymn for Technology Professional Development Specialists. They are a great bunch of teachers and very helpful in our district.
I have been requested to put together a summer training for the TPDS [...]
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