December 2008 Blog Posts (111)

Animoto, Tokbox, iSpeech: Good on-line resources for implementing Universal Design for Learning and supporting assistive technology

I just received an email from a colleague with the following cool links:

Animoto

http://www.animoto.com --creates cool slide shows... You will want to sign up for the Educator Pass, it takes a day or two to verify.

"Animoto is a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using their own patent-pending technology and high-end motion design. Each video is a fully customized orchestration of… Continue

Added by Lynn Marentette on December 7, 2008 at 12:28pm — No Comments

Need data about teachers for new York Hall of Science programming via surveys

Hello Classroom 2.0 community,

My name is Chris Lawrence, the Senior Manager of Digital Learning at the New York Hall of Science. We are collecting front end data on two new projects that involve distance learning and educational software.

Here is one directed at middle and high school teachers:

Science Teacher Survey for online professional… Continue

Added by Chris Lawrence on December 6, 2008 at 11:46am — No Comments

Professional Development In Education: What's Your Ideal?

This post will be used in a graduate level class I am teaching focused on 21st century learning tools. If interested, please use the comment feature below this post to answer the following knowing that what you write may be used in this class. Thanks in advance to all contributors

* As a teacher, what is your actual experience in the area of Professional Development?

* What is your ideal? What do you seek from Professional Development?

* How can/might Web 2.0 tools assist…

Added by Andrew on December 6, 2008 at 6:05am — 4 Comments

Resource sharing between educators using Pedagogle.com

About a month and a half ago I did a presentation for my fellow teachers on "Application of the Open Source model to Education". The presentation itself was a bit long-winded and focused too much on the theory behind the application, rather than some practical examples. My presentation skills aside, the idea itself has merit.

We have a number of problems in education, not the least of which is the lack of an institutionalized memory that anyone can access. It would be nice if we had… Continue

Added by David Wees on December 5, 2008 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Aspi2.0 - Practical Intervention Project

Thanks for clicking in!

For a while now, I wondered what I could add to Classroom2.0's discussions. What could I do is such a powerful community? Until now, I've stuck to writing and engaging on my own blog.

I was replying to a post on Will Richardson's blog about 'The School of the Future', and for some reason, talked about the issues I face, as a father of a 7 year old with Aspergers Syndrome. I continually argue that he is… Continue

Added by Dean Groom on December 5, 2008 at 8:12pm — 5 Comments

I Get It

Photo Courtesy of Blue Moon in Her Eyes

Cross Posted from Constantly Changing

It finally happened. I hit a wall. In doing my International PLP I knew that one of the goals was to push the participants out of their comfort zone. And that has happened to me to a certain point, but I grasped onto the experience and figured that the only way to get the most out of the it… Continue

Added by Carey Pohanka on December 5, 2008 at 3:34pm — No Comments

Create a Student-Friendly Google Search Engine

By Alix E. Peshette

Cross-posted from The Impetuous Geek

The web is an expansive collection of the good, the bad and the ugly. Wouldn’t it be great if our students could search online in a safe environment? What if teachers could focus student searches towards specific resources? Sounds complicated and full of java scripts and html?

Welcome to the happy collision of…

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Added by Alix E. Peshette on December 5, 2008 at 3:00pm — No Comments

You "gotta be HD kidding me" Tube

Unbelievable, beautiful, and amazing quality in HD.

This is the original YouTube video in "normal" quality.

This is the same video in HD quality.…

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Added by John Costilla on December 5, 2008 at 1:50pm — No Comments

Blended Learning and Web 2.0

This past week, I was able to participate in an ISTE webinar titled “Dr. Z’s Creative Cookbook for Collaborative Communication.”

The started out with a lot of promise by sharing a PollEverywhere quiz about who had a… Continue

Added by John Costilla on December 5, 2008 at 10:43am — No Comments

Blog Feed

I am interested in working with all teachers to support them in using 21st century teaching methods and ideas to educate the digital learners in classrooms today. My web site is http://educationrebel.com and my blog is below. Thanks, Jack

Added by J Harrington on December 5, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

Make Yourself Worthwhile with an MBA Degree

Many people wishes to acquire a master of the field they are into. As decided to pursue a higher program, each of them has different reasons. You might be one of them also. The main reason why a lot of people desire to get a higher degree is to obtain all the good benefits that this particular higher program has to offer with them. But, what is really with this typical higher program?… Continue

Added by jolina on December 4, 2008 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Re: Best Sites For Christmas, New Year's, Map-making, & More

Here are a few of the latest "The Best..." lists:

TThe Best Places To Learn About Christmas, Hanukkah, & Kwanzaa

(http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/11/19/the-best-places-to-learn-about-christmas-hanukkah-kwanzaa/)

The Best Personal Home Page Creators

(http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/11/26/the-best-personal-home-page-creators/)

The Best Tools To Make Simple Graphs… Continue

Added by Larry Ferlazzo on December 4, 2008 at 7:33pm — No Comments

7 Years of Moodle Development from Dan Poltawski

Great demonstration of a open source developing community !

http://apprendre.grics.qc.ca/2008/12/communication/visualisation-de-7-ans-de-la-croissance-de-la-communaute-des-developpeurs-de-moodle/

Added by Geoffroi Garon on December 4, 2008 at 8:59am — No Comments

FREE XMAS ACTIVITIES

We have just published a new video about Xmas in Spain in the Icebreakers section of our page. You can pre-view it online in low-resolution.

We are also offering a free sample of the activities that come with the video, including worksheets and audio files. If you are interested in receiving the free sample, visit us at www.bablingua.com and join our mailing list. We'll send you two files… Continue

Added by Bablingua on December 4, 2008 at 5:08am — No Comments

What do you think of Online Schools?

Online Translation Schools - In the US and other European countries online translation schools are already offered.

Online Photography Schools - For those far from these top universities there are also online photography courses offered so that they can still pursue their dream profession in photography.

Feel free to share some of the available online schools...

Added by Bajang on December 3, 2008 at 9:58pm — 2 Comments

YouTube =Google? If Anything That Can Be Video Will Be Video.

Anything that can be a video will be a video, or so says this post from the site ReadWriteWeb

Here is an excerpt from their post Is YouTube the Next Google?

Generation YouTube

"Imagine a whole generation of kids growing up and learning about the…

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Added by Rob Jacobs on December 3, 2008 at 7:33pm — No Comments

Literacy

How do you define literacy? I'm tending to think literacy is the ability

to understand and convey meaning using a… Continue

Added by Durff on December 3, 2008 at 5:14pm — 1 Comment

Interactive White Boards and Document Cameras

This afternoon, I had the opportunity to demonstrate the use of document cameras and interactive white boards to our school's community council. This group includes school administrators as well as teachers and parents. Most of these teachers were unfamiliar with both technologies. They were very excited at what they saw could be done! Parents enjoyed the presentation as well. Of course, I had active Interaction with the IWB. I had parents and teachers at the board moving objects and creating… Continue

Added by Glen Westbroek on December 3, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Vote for Moi!

I know, I know: You'll be asked by better friends with better blogs, but I'm not above begging. :)

You really want to click the button that says "Oh! Virtual Learning!"

Added by Scott Merrick on December 3, 2008 at 2:20pm — No Comments

The PD Learning Curve

I think about the many times I attended professional development or training sessions as a teacher and how often much of it was done at the beginning of the year, during semester transitions or during staff development days throughout the year. Much like this image ironically titled "Creative Strategies for Professional Development," it was a lot of sit… Continue

Added by John Costilla on December 3, 2008 at 7:46am — No Comments