Jack Olmsted's Blog – January 2009 Archive (2)

Student Letters To President Obama with Close Captions On YouTube

5th grade students read their letters to President Obama.

Last week, I discovered that YouTube now allows Close Captions to be added to videos that can be translated into twenty-plus languages. Click on the small triangle on the lower right corner of the video player to see the close caption on this video, Very Cool!…

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Added by Jack Olmsted on January 25, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Press Release: Joan Ganz Cooney Center Calls For New national Strategy to Invest in mobile learning and A Digital Teacher Corps

Model Programs Spark New Opportunity to Transform Children’s Education

New York and Las Vegas, January 9, 2009 – Mobile device use is exploding among children worldwide, cell phones and iPods are this generation’s preferred form of social communication. More than half of the world’s population now owns a cell phone and experts project that people will use cell phones as their primary means of accessing the Internet by the year 2020. However, most educators and parents have… Continue

Added by Jack Olmsted on January 9, 2009 at 9:41am — No Comments