In preparing for Leadership Day 2009 (a day of advocacy planned by Scott McLeod from Dangerously Irrelevant.org) I wanted to talk to students about what they thought about how technology was being used in their schools. For this I needed a digital voice recorder. I went to Best Buy only to find $60-$120 recorders that…
A few hours ago I read Lee Kolbert‘s blog entry about vendors at NECC 2009. I wanted to comment, but worried that my comment would be too long. I decided to respond and piggyback on her entry with my own! As a ‘Newbie’ to NECC, I had heard mixed things about the Exhibit floor. “Don’t…
Alice is a free, open source software used to create animated ‘worlds.’ It provides the opportunity for teachers to expose students to using basic code and experience programming. This is my Alice world. I had to use Screencast-O-Matic to be able to upload it here, since the ‘export as movie’ option is not currently functional….
PortaPortal & delicious are 2 social bookmarking sites. They allow you to save links that you want to go back to and organize them by topic or tag.I decided to experiment with PortaPortal instead of my 2 Delicious pages (Page for K-3rd & Page for 4-6th). At NECC 2009 I sat in on a session…
http://www2.shidonni.com/s/default.htm?af=shidonnihome Overview Shidonni is a Web 2.0 tool with which students can create animated worlds. First, students choose whether they want to create a bird or a four-legged animal. Then, they draw the animal with a basic crayon or pencil. There are also mini tutorials for how to draw a particular kind of animal (giraffe…
Jam Studio http://www.jamstudio.com What is it? JamStudio is a free music-making tool created by Dave Edwards, a musician and software engineer who wanted to offer a music-making tool for people wanting to make their own music. Users can create music for free without an account, or they can create an account to save and share…
Dumpr http://www.dumpr.net An Overview Dumpr.net is a site where you can upload a photo to the site and it will automatically add any effect you choose. The effects range from a Rubik’s Cube to an Easter Egg to a Sketch effect. These files can be saved (jpg format) to your computer for future use.In my…
So here’s my second experiment with Comic Life. It’s a little hokey, but it’s fun. I will try to limit them to one a month from now on!
NECC 2009 Opening Keynote Malcolm Gladwell, author I, ashamedly, have never had a chance to read one of Malcolm Gladwell’s books (The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers). Now that I have finished grad school, I will finally have the time! If his opening Keynote Address is anything like his writing, then I am hooked. Heady…
Written on June 30th, the night before I left Washington, D.C. “It may be, in the end, that a good society is defined more by how people treat strangers than by how they treat those they know.” – James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds If this is true, then the members of the ISTE network…