I am in the middle of doing the two summer camps I started last year. Lego Mindstorms and Scratch with some Alice. Lego has been full with this week’s camp having 21 campers. Check out the wiki for more information and pictures. http://dalegoscratchcamps.wikispaces.com/
I have also started testing out Audio Boo on my iPod Touch. It [...]
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Students composed a video featuring 3 words to a soundtrack of music performed by DA students and recorded by Sam C. and Tristan S. during their senior project. Great work!
3 Words – Durham Academy from Andrew Herington on Vimeo.
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In the last month, the digital learning labs have been a very busy place for students and teachers. Early May found eighth grade students working with Mrs. Birgel and Ms. Kim Arrington (Artist-in-Residence) as we worked with students on multimedia projects based on The Life of Pi book they had read. Students created ID Poems [...]
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In February I wrote about shelf technology where I lamented the lack of integration of many of the tools we have at the ready for our students. I have had a wonderful week working with Kate Birgel, (8th grade Language Arts) and Kim Arrington (Artist-in-Residence) as we worked with students on multimedia projects based on [...]
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I am ready to roll out the Lower School iPod Learning Lab after getting the TRON-X for iPod case and the 15 unit Parasync iPod dock both are from Parat Solutions. I am excited to get these in the hands of our teachers and students. It has taken longer then I had hoped to get [...]
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Just in time for summer vacation, Raybook is offering U.S. Geography for FREE with the code “LEARNGEO,” through the month of May. Get it now and those long plane, train, car rides can prepare your students for next summer. In addition, they are also offering 20% off any title for the same time period with [...]
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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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Some day I will attend one of Alan November’s Building Learning Communities workshops, but until then, I can listen in and get the message from the experts he invites. One such person is Professor Angela McFarlane who gave the keynote speech this year. Her research into Online Learning Communities and games has allowed her to [...]
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I had the opportunity to sit down with Mark Williams from Modality Learning and discuss a product his company has been working on called Raybook.
Now the tag line for Modality is “Making Small Screens Smarter”. The concept is simple enough, work with publishers to adapt their content to a small screen much like iTunes has [...]
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I came upon a new term and resources that demonstrate the reality of my earlier post on Wikinomics. On a side note, I seem to be getting a lot of underlined words as I type, meaning I am writing about subjects using words that are being coined and presently are not in dictionaries that are [...]
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