DEN pre-conference was an awesome day of learning. We held school at DEN Headquarters in Silver Spring, MD. DEN head quarters is a beautiful place, if you are ever invited GO!!! Even though, we were treated as students on this day (being required to have Hall passes) we were definitely given a fantastic day of [...]
Now is the time for change and the National Educational Technology Plan is the place to start. At NECC 2009, a collaboration event was created to gather “high impact, researched-based recommendations” from teachers and education professionals that would help drive the future of education and technology. Today’s students need a plan to bring their education [...]
Image via CrunchBase Can anyone keep up with Twitter? On a normal Twitter day, my PLN is always busy, but during NECC, well, the outage amps up and flies faster than double ground-strike lightning. From the folks at Common Craft collaborating with members of their Explainer Network, SayItVisually, comes a cool video, Skype Explained Visually. [...]
Catching up has the ring of an oxymoron to it, but that’s exactly what I’ve been trying to do this morning. Found a fascinating article by Ben Parr on Mashable via Facebook about Google Wave. Food for thought for Sunday morning reading. Today has been dominated by news and excitement surrounding Google Wave (), Google [...]
Saturday, May 30, the nation’s old event celebrating student media and multimedia, the 43rd California Student Media & Multimedia Festival was held in two California locations. As the host for 16 years, it was a renewing pleasure to see the fabulous work students and teachers are capable of. In an era when high stakes [...]
Copied from DEN National Blog We have two special treats for our STARs today. First, we have a whole new series of DEN badges for you to proudly display on your blogs, wikis, email signatures, etc. Just visit the DEN badges page, find the one you like, copy the code and off you go. There’s [...]
I received a request for information about how teachers are using DE streaming to make the Civil War come alive for their students. Who better to ask than the awesome Discovery Educators? We would very much appreciate your feedback on this Google Form. I will post the results once we gather some feedback. PS – [...]
FETC 2012! Here, now! Not really, but at FETC 2009 I was asked to do the closing keynote with a projection into 2012– fun challenge. (I’ll put that presentation online eventually.) It was the opportunity to try something new. So the way this big show (7,000+ folks) closed was with videos made on the cellphones of [...]
I came across a pretty cool little application, pic2color. The application allows you to upload an image or paste the URL of an image to generate a color scheme with Hex codes. When you click on one of the colors generated by the image, the Hex code is displayed. This is a terrific design tool [...]
Aren’t a STAR DEN member yet? You’ll want to be! The Educator Resources section of the DEN site is available to STAR DEN members. I just finished posting 7 videos of mine on both the DEN Educator Resource site and TeacherTube. I finished uploading all 7 videos to the DEN site before the first video [...]
As someone who really enjoyed Brain Rules, I can’t believe I missed the PBS mini-series, The Secret Life of the Brain. Here is the series description: THE SECRET LIFE OF THE BRAIN, a David Grubin Production, reveals the fascinating processes involved in brain development across a lifetime. The five-part series informs viewers of exciting new [...]
Cross-posted from Cliotech Now that the festivities of the inauguration are behind us, we can start to process the images and words of that historical day. Here are some tips and resources to help you process the day with your students: Wordle of the Inaugural Address You can create your own Wordle online. Another free [...]
I just came across this video on YouTube. It was created by XPLANE, the design team who collaborated with Karl Fisch on the famous Did You Know 2.0 video. It is a terrific video that highlights some organizational and historical details of the 2009 and past presidential inaugurations. Did You Know?: The 2009 Inauguration Edition [...]
Note: Originally posted on Cliotech (a Blogger blog) Image via CrunchBaseIs it weird for me to share some terrific video tutorials for a rival blogging engine here on Blogger? Since I also blog on the DEN PA blog, a WordPress blog, I can empathize with those of you who are using WordPress and are occasionally [...]
Video, as we all know, offers instant access to student attention. Video takes you across time, across boundaries, include microscopic and macroscopic boundaries. But video can also slow time and bend it to reveal physical phenomenon laying under day to day experiences. To see what I mean, visit the website for Discovery’s program Time Warp. [...]
Cross-posted on Cliotech Image via CrunchBaseI’ve been waiting for service like Feedbeater to emerge on the scene for a long time. I have used Dapper to create manual RSS feeds for sites that do not already publish one, but those feeds didn’t always work very well. The feeds I’ve created as tests with Feedbeater look [...]
Cross-posted on Cliotech Image via CrunchBaseAs one who always struggles to manage a substantial digital persona with as little fuss as possible, Fuser is an absolute must. Like other social productivity applications, such as Ping.fm and AtomKeep, Fuser is now part of my online networking arsenal. Fuser is a service that manages your social networking [...]
A colleague sent me an e-mail alerting me to a new ribbon plugin for Office 2007. The ribbon plugin was developed by SlideShare to allow users to interact with their SlideShare documents from within PowerPoint. SlideShare Ribbon Demo from slideshare on Vimeo. Click here to access downloading and installation instructions. Installing the SlideShare ribbon in [...]
Cross-posted in Cliotech Image via CrunchBaseAs if we needed another reason to love Animoto . . . Here are two product updates I just received from Animoto: 1. Image Pacing Control You can now dictate the speed of your images within any full-length video. Want to create a high-intensity action flick of your pics? Try [...]
Cross-posted on Cliotech Image by wolfgraebel via Flickr I had an opportunity to [virtually] meet the developer of a top-notch literature annotation website, Power Moby-Dick. Power Moby-Dick is a full-text annotation of Herman Melville‘s classic novel. The site also offers resources for students and teachers as well as a regular features on the book’s ongoing [...]
Cross-posted on Cliotech I know that a few others have blogged about this contest, but it’s a really great idea and I wanted to share it here as well. BrainyFlix is endeavoring to help students better prepare for the SATs through a mode of learning that research has proven to be very powerful for 21st [...]
I had an opportunity to explore a new student assessment application, QuizEgg. QuizEgg is cross-platform web-based assessment creator. Here is a quick overview of the major features: Currently, there are six question types: multiple choice, true/false, multiple response, fill in the blank, word list, and essay (essay is the only option that is not automatically [...]
Cross-posted on Cliotech Image via CrunchBaseThe popularity of services such as Twitter and Plurk have created a demand for services to build a customized microblog network. Here are a few to explore. ShoutEm ShoutEm Demo from vikot on Vimeo. Click here to start creating your ShoutEm network. Twingr Click here to start creating your own [...]
Image via Wikipedia cross-posted on cliotech Listening to NPR Radio “All Things Considered” today, I learned about a really interesting website designed to coordinate support for those to need. The website was featured as part of the “All Tech Considered” segment. The site, Lotsa Helping Hands, is a philanthropic venture of a for-profit company looking [...]
Image by via CrunchBaseI received a Voicethread features update e-mail today and thought that I would share what I think is a REALLY COOL new feature, exporting Voicethreads for playback on iPods and iPhones. Take your VoiceThread and put it into iTunes or your pocket for on-the-go viewing and presenting. Whenever you export, you now [...]
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