Inside everyone is an artist – often a frustrated artist. Many people seem to equate being an artist with being able to draw or paint. Since most people feel they can’t draw anything beyond stick figures they don’t often venture into self-expression through art.…
I still teach a basic computer application
course (as opposed to working with HS teachers to integrate technology
into their curriculum) and my goal is to make sure students have the
tech skills necessary to be successful in class. I don’t, however,
want to just teach “computer skills” - and teach technology just for
the sake of learning technology. The past few years I have redesign
my computer application course around themes, such as career
exploration,… Continue
(cross posted on Art Snacks) Its quite hard to put together the funding for an art field trip to
Milan to see Da Vinci's 'The Last Supper' in person. looking at a print
of the famous painting isn't quite the same.
All that changed
yesterday as officials yesterday put the famous painting online in
stunning detail. How stunning? How about 16 billion pixels? Thats right
16 billion pixels or 1600 times better that the typical 10 megapixel
camera. The website… Continue
Added by Chris Prout on October 28, 2007 at 10:39am —
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I am a co-presenter at this year's K12 Online Conference and I wanted to invite folks to participate in the interactive portion of my presentation, which was around a collaborative movie project.
Use this VoiceThread presentation and add your voice and story into the mix:…
My age and my conservatism still go against me and my use of web 2.0. I wish I was more adventurous especially as I want to put some widgets on the side bar of my blogs. However, I dont want to make a mistake as the whole world can see my mistakes and there is no undo button in wordpress!!! I think I will wait for school on Monday and get Jess to help me.
I tried to embed my voki in the backyards blog but despite copying the code for wordpress, it would not upload - just came up with…
Here's what I am giving to my students next week. What do you think? I want it simple enough for them to pay attention, remember, and follow.
" Let's all check our sites and make sure we aren't violating copyright laws.We need to be absolutely sure we are not illegally posting pictures, lyrics, songs, games, artwork, graphics, text, etc.I'm pretty sure I will find…Continue
Added by L. Suzanne Shanks on October 25, 2007 at 4:54pm —
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To all those of you in Southern California impacted by the fires, my thoughts and prayers go out to you. I was evacuated for a couple of days, but am very lucky to have a home to return to. When we finally go back to school, I look forward to helping students try to get back to normal. Thanks to all the firefighters, law enforcement personnel, and relief workers who are working so hard!
Added by Adina Sullivan on October 25, 2007 at 11:23am —
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The Children’s Internet Protection Act. Last week I gave a presentation at OLEMA (Ohio Library Educational Media Association) and was shocked to hear of the number of books and articles that are or have been either challenged or banned in libraries. The ALA (American Library Association) site in “Second Life” has some great exhibits on this subject. The assault on free speech is relentless.…
I teach a course on educational technology at Colorado State
University within the teacher licensure program. We are eight weeks into the semester and it
has been a very interesting ride so far. I must admit that I entered the class somewhat naively, thinking that my
students, being “digital aboriginals” would embrace technology, embrace a more
collaborative approach to teaching, how wrong I was…
I would love to be able to post entries here in my Classroom 2.0 blog and have them appear on one or more of my other blogs, particularly IUCALL (http://iucall.blogspot.com), but more importantly, I would love to have my posts in IUCALL appear here in Classroom 2.0.
Does anyone know if this is possible? Don't talk to me about using RSS. RSS is great, but it loses functionality of the blog. Check out… Continue
Added by Daniel Craig on October 24, 2007 at 8:10pm —
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Last week, Ed Bott hosted an interesting poll
on his ZDNet blog regarding digital ethics. The poll, entitled "When is
it OK to copy digital media," has received a fair share of attention
from his readers. I thought it would be interesting to see where we (as
primarily an educational community) stand on these issues -
especially in comparison to the readers of Ed's blog. Anyway, here's my
version of the poll… Continue
My kids and I have access to a pair of XO laptops, from the One Laptop Per Child program at the MIT media lab. I’d seen & held one before, so I knew what to expect from the physical form factor. We’ve since been coming to terms with the software.
So far, my kids favorite “activity” (new jargon — something like a combination of application and file) has been TamTamSynth, which lets you make weird sounds (most of the time) and…
A good use satellite imaging for Current Events, Science, and general conversation. More details below:
Teachers can share these amazing images with colleagues and students. As you can see, there is a small image that shows the area that the GOES-11 satellite covers. The larger image is the California fire and smoke areas. You can see the smoke from the fires that are blown west onto the Pacific Ocean. More… Continue
Added by samccoy on October 23, 2007 at 10:30pm —
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