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Video to go

Brightcove.tv has released Platform 3, the latest of their online video distribution service. Read the complete review by Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins from Mashable. Improved publishing system and media management tools… Continue

Added by John Costilla on October 14, 2008 at 8:12am — No Comments

Fund-MyEducation – College Scholarships

Scholarships can come from different sources and have various awarding criteria.

* Adult Scholarship

* Best Buy Scholarships

* Coke Scholarships

* Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship

* Engineering Scholarships

* Harvard… Continue

Added by gui on October 14, 2008 at 4:29am — No Comments

Fund-MyEducation – Student Loans

Student Loans are a form of financial aid that many students use to help bridge the gap between their personal resources and the cost of pursuing a college degree

* Student Loans

* Student Loans - Co-Signer and No Co-Signer Loans

* Student Loans -… Continue

Added by gui on October 14, 2008 at 4:25am — No Comments

Smartboards--whose using them and how

Are you using Smartboards? How is it enhancing instruction? What reaction are you getting from teachers? How are you supporting them in training/professional development? What's the learning curve and who became your "expert" resouces for integrating the technology into your curriculum/school?

Added by judibea on October 13, 2008 at 8:10pm — 3 Comments

K12Online Conference Underway

The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. This FREE conference run by volunteers and open to everyone. The 2008 conference theme is “Amplifying Possibilities”. This year’s conference begins with a pre-conference keynote… Continue

Added by John Costilla on October 13, 2008 at 8:04am — No Comments

Free Manuals for Free Software

FLOSS Manuals, located at flossmanuals.net, is a collection of manuals that explain how to install and use a range of free and open source software.

The FLOSS acronym stands for Free/Libre/Open-Source Software. The manuals are friendly and simple, and they are intended to encourage people to explore the wide range of free, open source alternatives to expensive and restrictively licensed software.

Added by Kevin Chilton on October 13, 2008 at 5:19am — No Comments

Today is my birthday: about Education in a globalized world

Today is my birthday. I'm 44. It means that i have spent 40 years of my life, around 16 000 days, into various schools, first as student, then as teacher. But I wasn't an ordinary student because i hated the walls of my schools, and i'm not an ordinary teacher because i continue to hate the walls of the schools... I'm teaching in a public middle school in South of France, Provence... I like it, i need to talk every day with my students. I teach… Continue

Added by Vincent Mespoulet on October 12, 2008 at 6:02pm — 3 Comments

Looking for teens to take tech use survey

I am working with Anne M from Australia. We are looking for participants for a tech use survey for teens. Please pass this along to anyone who teach teens and might be interested in joining us. I have 3 surveys on tech uses all set to go, please pass it along to any friends who teach teens. Let me know their email and when someone is interested, I'll add their location to the form and give them access to the data spreadsheet.

Thanks for helping me on this!… Continue

Added by Alison Saylor on October 12, 2008 at 10:00am — 2 Comments

Who you gonna call?

You, that's who! I need your input answering this question:
What my PLN means to me, how SL helps develop it, helps me to be a 21 century teacher?
Please go to Durff's Blog and leave your comments on that post. That way all the answers are in one place for that day. Thanks so much!

Added by Durff on October 12, 2008 at 7:30am — No Comments

Google Documents (Fully Facilitated 5 Day Online Class)

Moodle Based

Fully Facilitated!

Login as guest: http://21cif.mrooms.net/course/view.php?id=58

FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions:

How much time… Continue

Added by Dennis O'Connor on October 10, 2008 at 7:41pm — No Comments

A New Bag Of Tricks

What a busy first week it has proven to be, but all the same its been highly enjoyable especially when trialing some new tools in my classes. So here they are....

www.classtools.net

Very simple little site that allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a flash. Although it is hardly the most polished of perfect application, it does produce some really engaging content. It also lets you embed your creations into web pages or blogs for easy… Continue

Added by Jarrod Robinson on October 10, 2008 at 6:30pm — 3 Comments

What will be coming next?

Old dogs and new tricks, I remember Legos but not ones that moved on their own or with commands. After a two day training I am so excited about using them in my classroom. I called my mom and told her she shouldn't have ever stopped buying Legos for my brother, she said "I knew it was on the job training, but they just got too expensive." I had to realize quickly that she was right. Kits cost $250 each and they suggest to only have 2 students… Continue

Added by Teresa Morgan on October 10, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Free Wikieducator Workshops

Join me on Wikieducator for a free online workshop to find out how you can use Wikieducator to collaborate and share content worldwide.

For those who are unfamiliar with Wikieducator: WikiEducator is a community of learning rsources supported by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) for the development of free educational content.…

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Added by Dr. Nellie Deutsch on October 10, 2008 at 3:44pm — No Comments

YouTube x 4

Who doesn't like 80's music? Okay, the song is a little cheesy, but take a look at this in 4 x YouTube HD! We've all see a lot of YouTube in our time, but this is really cool and probably very time consuming. Four YouTube Videos running simultaneously to form one video. Click play at the top to have them auto synced. I wish I would have thought of this...…

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Added by John Costilla on October 10, 2008 at 1:55pm — 2 Comments

Flat Classroom Conference Invitation

Hello from Doha, Qatar

Qatar Academy are proud to be the host of the first Flat Classroom Conference: Leadership Workshop and Student Summit to be held January 24-26, 2009 in Doha, State of Qatar. This conference has been kindly sponsored and supported by HSBC Bank.

The Flat Classroom Project is a global, collaborative project using Web 2.0 tools for… Continue

Added by Julie Lindsay on October 10, 2008 at 4:54am — No Comments

Social Networks are a lot of work

The software is not that hard to use (especially ning - soo easy) so I thought it would not be too much work to put up one of my own. Turns out that getting that critical mass of users to keep the site going is a lot of work. We have had two false starts and finally our algebra teacher site looks like it is building some momentum. Who knew it would be this hard?

Added by Brian Foley on October 9, 2008 at 11:28pm — 3 Comments

Elementary Tech Teachers SMARTBoard Tech Lessons?

Elementary Technology Teachers teach how-to.... and integrate technologies. We must spend time teaching how to use software and hardware so that students can apply tech skills in other areas. In our struggle of encouraging everyone to integrate SMARTBoards and other IWBs, I find that we do not have many of the tech How-To... lessons for the IWBs. SmartBoard and Promethean lessons for curriculum topics are springing up all over, but we still cannot ignore the basic technology knowledge needs.… Continue

Added by JoNelle on October 9, 2008 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

Building a network of non-school tutor/mentor programs

This is a map of the Chicago region showing concentrations of poverty and locations of poorly performing schools (according to state information). Our aim is that people use these maps to focus attention, and resources, on neighborhoods where non-school volunteer- based tutoring, mentoring, arts and/or technology programs might help keep kids safe, model different careers and aspirations than might be modeled in a high poverty area, and help… Continue

Added by Daniel Bassill on October 9, 2008 at 1:45pm — 2 Comments

"...and I quote."

As I was reading through a series of blogs from my Google reader, I came upon this post (Steve Jobs' 10 Secrets to Building a Huge Empire) by Manish Pandey, a tech enthusiast and blogger. It basically goes on to talk about notable quotes from Steve Jobs and how they… Continue

Added by John Costilla on October 9, 2008 at 11:17am — 2 Comments

4 typical questions about inserting music to PowerPoint

As a PowerPoint expert, I often receive a lot of PowerPoint question about sound. Here I pick out four typical questions and supply a solution for each question. Hope it helps you at the process of creating PowerPoint presentation.

All the solutions below is taking PowerPoint 2007 for example. PowerPoint 2003 is similar with it.

Question 1 -- How to insert multiple music to PowerPoint?

Solution:

Steps: Insert a Sound File ( let the sound play… Continue

Added by SunnyY on October 9, 2008 at 10:25am — No Comments