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 General Technology on Mar 28th, 2008 No Comments »
On Thursday, Adobe released a free basic version of Photoshop entitled Photoshop Express. It has been launched in a “beta” test version. It is completely web-based so it can be used with any type of computer, operating system, and browser. You need Flash Player 9 to run. It offers free 2 Gb of storage. More [...]
Posted in General Technology, Podcasting on Feb 28th, 2008 No Comments »
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about attending the Apple Tour of 21st-Century Learning. As I am going through the material we received, I feel I need to comment on all the great sites we talked about.
Apple Learning Interchange (ALI) is a social network for educators. You can find items as simple as [...]
Posted in General Technology, Multimedia, ProfDevelopment on Feb 23rd, 2008 4 Comments »
Had winter break this week and had quite a productive week. Finally recovered from the flu by Wednesday and didn’t have to spend most of the day in bed. Having a laptop sure comes in handy when you aren’t feeling well.
I am enrolled in an Immigration course and am reading the book “The Inner World [...]
Posted in Blogging, Educational Blogging, General Technology, Podcasting on Feb 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Attended a session sponsored by Apple yesterday entitled “Tour of 21st-Century Learning.” It was a great day. I knew about a lot of the tools but they not only focused on the tools, but focused on project-based learning with the tools and integrating areas of the curriculum. We, as students, did research that we posted on [...]
Posted in General Curriculum, General Technology on Jan 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Today I held my first meeting with everyone who works in our district’s secondary schools in the Technology Labs. It went very well. We had some professional development — a little overview of Atomic Learning and went over www.picnik.com, a great site for teachers/students to use to edit photos and resize photos. We shared tips [...]
Posted in General Technology, Presentations on Jan 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Great Student Site for Photographs from National Geographic
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photogalleries?nav=TOPNAV
Categories such as Adventure & Exploration, Nature & Weather, Science & Space, Underwater, Animals, People & Culture, and Travel.
Most Popular Galleries Include: Snowflakes, Valleys, Northern Lights, Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo, Brain, Coastlines, Clouds, Lungs, and Jurassic Period.
Added benefits of the site: You can sign up for free newsletters where [...]
Posted in Blogging, General Technology on Dec 31st, 2007 No Comments »
Spending my time trying to get better and catch up on my feeds in Bloglines. Was about a month behind so I had a lot of posts to read. One of my favorite blogs to read is Around the Corner by Miguel Guhlin. He posts frequently, so I was really behind on his. I really [...]
Posted in General Technology, Uncategorized on Dec 28th, 2007 No Comments »
Sitting here watching the Harry Potter movie we got for Christmas and since I have spent the last 3 days sick in bed, I have been thinking about the past year, the future year, things I am thankful for, and things I want to change.Many things happened this past year.
The year started off very badly in [...]
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