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 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 [...]
Posted in Multimedia, Presentations, Second Life on Feb 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Last week, I worked with 5 classes of 8th Grade Students on a great project. The students did research on the presidential candidates. Each student selected their candidate and wrote an essay focusing on their selection. They concluded their essay with a brief paragraph on the candidate’s views. This is where I came in. We had about 50 [...]
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 Presentations, ProfDevelopment, Second Life on Nov 10th, 2007 1 Comment »
MassCUE is holding their 25th Annual State Technology Conference next week — November 14th & 15th in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. I am very excited about the conference. Going to attend some great sessions and I am very lucky to be presenting with Beth Knittle on Wednesday. Our presentation is entitled, “Second Life and Education: Expanding Your Learning.” [...]
Posted in General Technology, Multimedia, Presentations, ProfDevelopment on Oct 27th, 2007 No Comments »
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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addthis_title = ‘Videos%2C+Slideshows%2C+Handouts’;
addthis_pub [...]
Posted in General Technology, Multimedia, Presentations on Oct 27th, 2007 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in General Technology, Presentations on Oct 5th, 2007 No Comments »
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
A cool place [...]
Posted in Podcasting, Presentations on Aug 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Slideshare now has the capability to enter an mp3 url to accompany your slideshare presentation. So many cool tools. For instructions.
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addthis_title = ‘Slideshare+%2B+Podcast+%3D+Slidecast’;
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