April 2009
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Students Unplugged
Would you be willing to go 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week without technology? Could you? Thanks to Dr. Mansfield for passing this post along, Students unplugged — the horror, the horror!, it asks some interesting questions… Do you feel you don’t exist without your online profiles, tweets, texting? Is it better to wait and look for or automatically receive information? What is technology...
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Saving PowerPoint to 97-2003
You may be using Office 2007 at home, and you may be frantically trying to complete it before you need to present in class. One step that you can’t forget, is to save your PowerPoint as 97-2003 - if you don’t it may not work when you are in front of the class. PDF directions on how to save (with pictures) Quick steps: Click on the Office button Choose Save As Change Save As type...
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Digital Scrapbooks
Have you ever wanted to do a digital scrapbook, publish a story with images, or create a digital poster with photos, videos and music? What about as a project for your students? Three standout products that are educationally focussed are: Mixbook TikaTok GlogsterThis is a creative way for your students to demonstrate learning in a new way.
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The Story Spring 2009 E-zine
The Spring 2009 The Story is now online! Quote from editorials, “A computer lab that is accessible during all school hours and is not a classroom will enable students to embrace modern technology to the fullest and to accomplish schoolwork during the school day.” I’m always interested to hear from students about educational technology - if you’d like to...
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FETC 2009 Virtual Edu/Tech Conference On-demand
Did you miss out on our event yesterday or couldn’t get to the session you really wanted to hear? Don’t worry, all sessions are available for free online to listen to at your convenience. All the sessions were recorded and are available on-demand at the FETC 2009 Virtual Conference center (free registration is required). These sessions will be available now through July 23, 2009, so...
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Earth Day 2009
Happy Earth Day! Howstuffworks has a collection of articles about Earth Day (including how vampire power works) For a historical perspective on Earth Day, National Geographic News has a collection of pictures from the first Earth Day April 22, 1970, “Bell-Bottoms and Gas Masks”. Take a virtual field trip and go Google Sightseeing. Today’s post shows a tree growing on the...
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Stargazing: Cassini's New Saturn Pictures
A great pictoral blog, The Big Picture from the Boston Globe, has a collection of new photos of Saturn sent back from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Cassini has been in space for nearly 5 years, and is sending back wonderful pictures as it passes Saturn and its moons. Most recently it passed by Titan to observe extreme ultraviolet emissions, and this August it will take images of a Saturanian...
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Countdown Clocks
Here’s a neat little site - countdown clocks. It’s the final stretch of the year! Here’s how much calendar time is left until the last day of school: Countdown To Last Day of School
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Invitation: FETC 2009 Virtual Edu/Tech Conference...
Mark your calendars, FETC’s 2009 Virtual Conference is scheduled for the Apr 23rd! FETC is one of the largest educational technology conferences in the US, and each year hosts an on-site and virtual conference for educators and technology specialists. I’ve registered and Mr. Kmeicik and I will be attending - we invite you to stop in and catch a session or two. Conference kicks-off at...
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Oregon Summer Series of Professional Development...
The Oregon School District in Oregon, WI (near Madison) is offering a Summer Series of professional development classes. Courses are held from June to August so you can attend more than one. Some of the selections available: Literacy & Technology Weaving Web 2.0 into the Classroom Creating Video for your Classroom Creating Interactive SMARTboard lessonsThey welcome all educators and classes...
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Podcasting in Class - The Mini Series
Here’s a great blog created to help educators get podcasting into class. The latest post, The Mini Series, helps illustrate ways you could incorporate podcasting into class work. Summarizing Dan Schmit’s post, the mini series would be short and consistent recorded episodes focused on a specific topic: Mini Series topics could include: Science - Animal Adaptations, Lifecycles,...
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Robotic Social Experiment
From Tweenbots: “In New York, we are very occupied with getting from one place to another. I wondered: could a human-like object traverse sidewalks and streets along with us, and in so doing, create a narrative about our relationship to space and our willingness to interact with what we find in it? More importantly, how could our actions be seen within a larger context of human connection...
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Google Tips - Search By Color
Here’s a neat trick you can use while doing image searches using google. Search for an image, in this example “kittens”. Here’s what the image search URL will look like: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=kitten&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi Now, let’s say you just wanted to see black kitten pictures. Just add &imgcolor=colorname (or in...
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Internet Reboot Today at 11:59UTC
The Internet will be rebooted today and is expected to be down for one minute s,ǝqnʇ noʎ new interface Yahoo debuts their new Ideological Search Google can index your brain using Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE) After 188 years of ink Guardian goes to Twitter only! Woot deal is $3 + $1,000,000 shipping Google works with Ford & GM to bring you the Android Car ...
