Ever find yourself in the position where you “cant get there-ah from here-ah”? You know that you can use that file if only it was in the correct format! Here are a couple of tools that may help. The first is an online file conversion tool – Zmazar (http://www.zamzar.com/). In Zamzar you upload a file [...]
Last week I was packing for a trip to San Antonio, TX. I would be gone for a week so I needed to think about what I needed. Hotel reservations were made months ago and when I book a hotel I only stay where I can get free Internet. I find it outrageous that some [...]
I recently received a link to Microsoft Research’s World Wide Telescope – www.worldwidetelescope.org. According to the user guide: ”The WorldWide Telescope is a software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—combining terabytes of imagery from such famous telescopes as Hubble, Chandra and Spitzer into one vast panorama of the universe. WorldWide [...]
Last week I had the good fortune to participate in a workshop led by Discovery’s own Kathy Schrock. The Stafford Public Schools under the leadership of their Technology Integrator (and CT Discovery Education Leadership Council majordomo) Lynn Reedy, were awarded a grant for this school year under the CT State Dept. of Education’s Enhancing Education Through [...]
Do you know about Gazelle? Gazelle is an online recycling service. The company pays you cash for used electronics (cell phones, laptops, mp3 players, projectors, blu-ray players, digital cameras, and more). You look up your item in their online data base, describing the condition, the site makes you an offer, and sends you a box. [...]
At last week’s EASTCONN Regional Tech Council meeting colleague Marji Roy of the Ashford Public Schools passed on a wonderful app for iPod Touch and iPhone. The folks from Nuance who make the PC speech to type program, Dragon Naturally Speaking, have a free app for the iPod Touch/iPhone, Dragon Dictation. The app launches and [...]
As educators all of us tell students how important it is to cite sources. Of course the same is true when we are using videos from Discovery Education. What better way to drive the point home than to model citing sources for our students. The best part is….it is very easy to do! Download your favorite [...]
Many of us work on multiple computers which adds to our disorganization. We can’t remember which computer has which file. This results in for most of us having many Jump Drives and not sure what is on which one. We spend too much time searching USB drives for files or turning on and off multiple [...]
Do you know TrueTube (http://www.truetube.co.uk/) ? As you can tell from the URL this is a UK based service. It is a place to debate social issues through the use of uploaded videos. As they put it – “TrueTube is a free, website which uses real-life stories and issues to encourage teenagers to explore and [...]
Scholastic / Journey Ed is advertising a a $39.98 deal for a Windows 7 Pro Upgrade version. You have to be a qualified educator or student. There is a verification procedure that requires you to send some information by email or fax before they fulfill your order. You can purchas a 64 bit or 32 [...]
I wanted to share a couple new things that are part of the Google family, Google Image Swirl and Google Dashboard. Google Image Swirl, new from Google Labs, is an image search engine. It is one of those Google things I am not sure I get. Hey, I am still trying to wrap my [...]
A very cool thing happens on Twitter on Tuesdays. It is called #edchat which is an outgrowth of #teachertuesdays. The syntax of #edchat and #teachertuesdays is called a hashtag in Twitter. Hashtags are used to mark or label a tweet so that a conversation on a particular topic can be followed. In this case #teachertuesday [...]
Do you subscribe to Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day? Or follow his generous tweets @Larryferlazzo on Twitter? I have found that Larry is a steady stream of interesting educational links. Larry is starting to post his annual end of the year round up starting with this recent post – The “Best Articles (and Blog [...]
One of the things Discovery’s Kathy Schrock talked about in her recent presentation Score! Winning Strategies to Conquer Information Overload at the CECA /CASL 09 Conference was the concept of of gaining control and organizing your electronic life. In a cross between Schrock inspiration and a “this is just ridculous” moment last weekend I [...]
This link - Comprehensive Guide to Google Wave is posted from a retweet on Twitter that was bouncing around this morning. I have not had a chance to look at it deeply but two things caught my eye. One was that its introduction starts, “Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool the that is [...]
Have you heard? There is a new Windows OS! If you somehow missed the flurry of cutesy TV ads by Microsoft or the sniping back-attack ads by Apple, please be advised that Windows 7 launched on October 22, 2009. And what are you going to do about it? Upgrade in place? Buy a new hunk [...]
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