Everyscape launched this past week. Everyscape is a startup company out of Waltham, MA. Still in early phases, it posts 3-D photorealistic buildings/streets of Boston, New York City, Aspen, and Miami Beach. More information from Technology Review.
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Just went to Bloglines to catch up on some reading and my first posting was from Beth Knittle from Beth’s Thoughts referencing the Moving Forward wiki which lists videos, slideshows, and handouts (all in one place). A great reference.
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Find a great educational video on YouTube but YouTube is blocked at your school? Well, you are in luck. You can download YouTube videos and then burn them onto a CD or DVD for use in your classroom (or just download them to your notebook).
I have chosen to use Zamzar which is a very simple [...]
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So, you want to have your students create a presentation. Do we work with PowerPoint again? Well, you could – but you have so many more options…
Microsoft Photo Story 3
Free download from Microsoft. Import your images, add some music, add some text, record some audio, and you have a project.
Download at: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx
Tutorial: http://www.windowsphotostory.com/
Slideshare at http://www.slideshare.net
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Great new site available — www.trymango.com
Learn a foreign language with interactive on-line lessons — Spanish, Russian, French, Italian, Chinese, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Greek, English for Spanish Speakers, and English for Polish Speakers.
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Going through my notes today from my meeting with Beth where she recommended a blog to me — The Four Eyed Technologist. Decided to go through his blog and discovered a tool he talked about — TouchGraph which is a visual search engine showing the various relationships between searches in Amazon, Google, and [...]
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I find it very interesting that my previous post where I discuss Jeff Utecht’s post regarding Informational Technologists versus Educational Technologists, I talk about preferring the ET part of the job and that I am pulled in so many directions with my IT part of the job.
Well, I have accepted a new position as Technology [...]
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Jeff Utecht posted on the TechLearning blog an article about Informational Technologists versus Educational Technologists. Informational Technologists focus on the hardware and software; whereas, Educational Technologists focus on teachers and helping the teachers use technology in the classroom (see his posted diagram below). As Jeff mentioned in his posting, these positions very often [...]
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IBM has launched a new website entitled Many Eyes. This site is pretty cool — allowing you to build a visualization on data you enter. It is a social site for people to share their visualizations. In the article I read — Technology Review 2007 – it is called “the Flickr of data plots.” Many Eyes [...]
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Our school purchased two new SMART Boards which I finally have had time to set up. We now have a total of three boards. I have been going into the classrooms using a lesson integrating the SMART Board. The Notebook software provided with the SMART Board is excellent and contains hundreds of graphic templates for all [...]
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