Each year I learn something new and am affirmed at what I know already when it comes to digital learning. Thanks to all who exposed me to something new. I enjoyed learning from David Warlick like I always do and hearing Alan November was a true treat. I think either one of these two could [...]
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Karen Fasimpaur from K12 Handhelds
Karen did a great job presenting the plethora of tools and options that are available in the open area.
“Open Educational Resources can help us reshape education by providing free high quality resources”.
K12 Open Ed
Workshop Notes
Sites:
Tools:
CamStudio
http://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/
GIMP
http://www.gimp.org/
Audio
Creative Commons Mixter
http://ccmixter.org/
MusOpen – Classical
http://www.musopen.com/
Wikimedia Commons Music
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Spoken Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoken_articles
Freesound Project
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/details/audio
Photo:
Stock XCHNG
http://www.sxc.hu/
Open Photo
http://openphoto.net/
Morguefile
http://www.morguefile.com
Educational Content
Wikibooks and Wikijunior
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
Curriki
http://www.curriki.org
WikiEducator
http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page
Free-Reading
http://www.free-reading.net
MIT OpenCourseware
http://ocw.mit.edu
Wikipedia for [...]
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David Warlick is presenting this session on what our students face in the flat classroom world of today.
Link to Presentation: http://davidwarlick.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.OurStudentsOurWorlds
If the world is flat what is the impact to our students?
Future Tech:
Wearable computer MIT
Toe Ring GPS Units and Cell Phone with a thumb and pinky finger unit
Books:
Richard Florida The Rise of the Creative Class [...]
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I am excited to hear Alan talk today about “Banning Student Containers” as he inspired me to change the title of what I do. I am no longer the technology coordinator as it was too limiting. There is no pencil and paper coordinator. It was freeing to me as I am no longer “that computer [...]
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November 26, 2007.
Attending Workshop the session is on the Finer Points of Web 2.0 by David Warlick.
Next to me is Carrie Willamson and Julie Williams.
Topics to discuss are: Podcasting, wikis, Virtual Reality, Blogs, Social Networking Virtual Learning, Social Networking
Handouts at: http://handouts.davidwarlick.com
Wiki Notes: http://web2atncetc.wikispaces.com/
Tools: Twitter and Ajax Chat Open-Source Ajax Chat that we can install [...]
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Coming to a Macintosh in February 2008. Microsoft is introducing an entire new version of its Office Suite.
This will be a huge upgrade in not only features but look and feel. In fact it reminds me of Pages which is part of the iWork ‘08 suite. Very template driven and loaded with drag and drop. [...]
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The 3rd proposal is probably the less stressful of any proposed. It really just supports the continued investment in the tools and classrooms needed to teach in the 21st Century.
21st Century Teaching Infrastructure:
During the summer of 2007, DA began addressing some of the infrastructure needs with the installation of ceiling mounted LCD Projectors, SMARTboards, VOIP [...]
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I attended the first and second session of Ed Costello’s 4 sessions he will be having where he alerts the faculty to possible action items coming out of the years work that our Technology Task Force did in concert with the Technology Advisory Committees study of laptop programs around the country. I think our group [...]
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iTunes U is growing by leaps and bounds. MacWorld did an article in October called iPod Study Buddy. I have already written about Raybook and how I think they can help to create content for the small screen. iTunes U is mostly thought of as higher education but that is changing. Janice Adams from [...]
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