What I’m Reading
It seems the wildly popular and teacher friendly web based text cloud generator site is down. There is a copyright issue with the name “Wordle” and while the issue is being taken care of you won’t be able to access http://wordle.net There are other places where you can creae “Word Clouds.” While wordle is my [...]
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Check out the awesome animoto video created by Leah Slucher, RP Librarian. Animoto is a free site which allows you to create video slide shows using digital images that you upload. You can select from their music collection or upload your own, and the site does the mixing of transitions and effects for you. If [...]
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http://www.kerpoof.com Kerpoof Screencast – Renny from TNLI 21c on Vimeo. I spent the day with the awesome Roosevelt-Perry teachers working with the kid-friendly multi-media generator Kerpoof! The video embedded above gives a really nice overview of the main features. I added that the .pdf files linked in the “For Teachers” section at he bottom of [...]
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Source: LifeHacker and SMART Board Goodies The weather has sure been a topic of conversation lately, hasn’t it? We had the pleasure of hosting some educators from Great Britain this week and they ‘weathered’ a snowed out conference day on Monday, a regular snow day Tuesday, and in true Louisville fashion it was 45 and [...]
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I’m happy to report that JCPS and CES are experimenting with opening up certain previously blocked web sites and services for teacher use. The micro-blogging platform twitter is one site you have probably heard a lot about and likely not known how it could help you as a teacher. 1. Check out this blog post [...]
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http://www.cmagics.com/beta/piano/ Virtual Piano: Online music innovation at its best! via kwout Another virtual piano. I enjoyed the ability to record the music without setting up an account. I also enjoyed creating music with the letters they provided, it made it possible to play the piano without needing to read the music. I found myself thinking [...]
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http://cdwg.discoveryeducation.com/wawl/ Discovery Education is holding a sweepstakes with three grand prize packages. The lucky teacher will receive a class set of computers, a whiteboard, response system and more. I read the fine print quickly and it looks like you register once, then you can use a twitter account to receive two additional entries per day. [...]
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