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#91 03-31-08.mp3

These are my links for March 30th:

• UsingMac - iPod - Get Better Understanding - Intro I’d love to hear the song from my iPod. I also watch video presentation (past) delivered by Steve Jobs via my little screen of iPod, sometimes. I believe you also love to use your iPod (if you don’t have, you’ll love it when you’ve one).
• Scripted Re-Mark - Batch Editor for Bookmarks - This service helps you manage your bookmarks stored on popular social bookmarking site del.icio.us. If you’ve ever wanted to make edits to all your bookmarks in one hit (”batch mode”), then this is for you. It makes it easy to re-tag bookmarks en masse, m
• Photojojo » Photography and The Law: Know Your Rights -
• 10 Ways to Keep your PLN from Running Amok! | 2¢ Worth - Controlling my PLN is not something that I?ve learned to do, but it is something that I?ve been thinking about. Here are a few ideas that occur to me.

I gave my first intro to Twitter to my colleagues the other day together with Heather Hurley. I missed some very good advice that I might not have missed if I had a check list. So in a post for “don’t do as I do” here are some tips for new people to Twitter.

• Fill in your bio section. If you are an educator make that clear. Many of us, me included, won’t follow someone if they don’t have something to contribute to my personal learning network (PLN). *Please note that I follow some people outside of education because my PLN expands outside of education.
• Change your settings to see all replies. This is important because if you tweet a question and someone that you don’t follow answers your question, you won’t see it. You want to see all replies in case you don’t follow someone that may reply to your tweets. If you get a tweet from someone that is helpful it is good karma to follow that person in return.
• Follow others! Choose a person in your network and look at who they are following. You can build your network by following those that can be the most use to you. DON’T FOLLOW EVERYONE UNLESS YOU WANT TO AND KNOW WHY YOU ARE DOING IT! Some people follow others to increase heir numbers for marketability. When people reach into the thousands of people they follow very little info is used. they are just working on their numbers. Twitter is about learning and gaining useful info not about noise.
• If Twitter is blocked, consider using one of the Instant Messaging systems to get tweets and also tweet from. Twitter supports the major IM services and also offers extra features using IM. One such things is tracking keywords using IM. You can keep an out for people tha use certain keywords in their tweets. I have added many people to my PLN by tracking the keyword “smartboard” through IM. Unfortunately this doesn’t work for the web site or through applications like twitterrific or Twhirl. AIM yes and Google Talk yes.
• Your icon is your association. People do become familiar with your icon. Make sure you make it representative of yourself. I change my icon quite frequently. That’s me and it says something about me. Others choose a representative picture and stay with that as how they want people to view them. Any way you look at it CHANGE YOUR ICON from the default brown square with circles.

So those are the tips. I’m sure others might want to add to this and I welcome their advice either in the comments or via twitter. In addition, I have uploaded some tiles or backgrounds that you can use for your twitter web page background. Take a look and tell me what you think.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/krossbow/sets/72157604288361250/

Here is #90. You can name this or any of the songs by leaving a suggestion in the comments.

#90 03-30-08.mp3

#89 03-29-08.mp3

Use these however you would like. They tile seamlessly. They work on Twitter. They can work in a presentation or slideshow program. They can even work as a texture in Second Life.

You can control the speed of the slideshow type a 1 (fast) to 9 (very slow).

These are my links for March 28th:

• Welcome to Ocean of Know -
• Text To Logo! Create Free Logos VIA Online Logo Makers, DIY Graphic Design -
• FavLoc :: Firefox Add-ons - Save files to a list of favorite locations.
• Math Cats — fun math for kids -
• LINDA HOYT: Free Lessons -
• Web Poll - Free Web Polls - Online Polls -
• 5 Ways To Have Fun with Twitter When You’re Bored - ReadWriteWeb - The beauty of Twitter is in its simplicity. Its magic comes from the endless creativity of its users.
• Forget E-Mail: New Messaging Service Has Students and Professors Atwitter - Chronicle.com - Anyone who feels overloaded with information from e-mail, blogs, and Web sites probably won’t want to read this. But some professors, librarians, and administrators have begun using Twitter, a service that can blast very short notes (up to 140 characters)
• Second Life: Official site of the 3D online virtual world -
• del.icio.us -
• Twitter -

Today take a journey back to simpler times of sock hops and malt shops.

#88 03-28-08.mp3

These are my links for March 27th:

• Searchme, Inc. -
• Sharing Creative Works - CC Wiki -
• Successful Teaching: Ipods as instructional tools - When I came upon the article ?Ipods in the Classroom? I was struck by a few things mentioned there. ?One aspect that is not so obvious, or for some reason forgotten is the clear usefulness that an iPod could have in a classroom setting.?
• Follow Twitter Conversations - Quotably.com -
• Main Page - Free-reading - Free-Reading is an ?open source? instructional program that helps teachers teach early reading. Because it’s open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. It’s designed to contain a scope and sequenc

Here is #87.

#87 03-27-08.mp3

These are my links for January 31st through March 26th:

• Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Switch to Flock -
• DEN Store | Discovery Educator Network - Any time we?re at a conference, DEN event or just walking down the street and wearing some sort of DEN apparel, people ask us how they can get their own DEN gear. So we decided to launch an online store full of DEN-branded gear. We?re really pleased w
• WordGirl | PBS KIDS GO! -
• Creating a Googleshare Map With Google Spreadsheets - The new gadget feature of Google Spreadsheets makes it easy to add heat maps. This can be used to create a world map illustrating the Googleshare for a given keyword across different countries; now-Google employee Douwe Osinga called this “Land Geist” a c
• Teach and Learn online. | LearnHub - LearnHub gives you the tools you need to effectively teach online. * A comprehensive online presence create a profile, earn your authority, build your network. * Powerful content authoring tools upload videos, author pages using a simple edito
• Mux: Happy Hungry Videobot! Convert, Download and Share Video Easily Online. - Convert & Download Convert videos between any format & save videos forever from popular websites!
• Share. Teach. Learn. Classroomn - www.classroomn.com - Classroomn is a unique place. * To some, it is a forum where you start a conversation by posting stories, discussing current events, giving or asking for advice. * To others, it is a classroom where conversations, pictures, and documents are posted for yo
• My Review of I-Safe « Nancy Willard?s Weblog -
• Welcome to SoundJunction -
• simplicity.png (PNG Image, 499×964 pixels) - Scaled (98%) -
• Password Strength Checker -
• the Idea Shower » » Remember Just One Password That?s Unique For Every Site - It?s a simple way to only have to remember one password, but have it be different for every site.

Okay! We are at #86 in this project to post a different song you can use freely with your students or where ever with only one Creative Commons - attribution. It really can’t get easier than that.

Also please keep in mind that you can name any of these songs by leaving me a comment. If you include your blog or web page address I will link back to you and maybe get some more people to look at the great things you are doing. So name this song!

#86 03-26-08.mp3

Today’s is #85   03-25-08.mp3

These are my links for March 24th:

• Do2Learn: Educational Resources for Special Needs - …This web site is dedicated to those individuals who may see the world in ways we do not yet understand.
• Hex-a-hop - Reviews and free Hex-a-hop downloads at Download.com - Hex-a-hop is a puzzle game based on hexagonal tiles. There is no time limit and no real-time elements. The objective is simply to destroy all the green hexagonal tiles on each of the 100 levels. As you progress through the game, more types of tiles are in
• 7 Things You Should Know About Google Apps | EDUCAUSE CONNECT - Google Apps is a collection of web-based programs and file storage that run in a web browser. The applications include communication tools (Gmail, Google Talk, and Google Calendar), productivity tools (Google Docs: text files, spreadsheets, and presentati
• Mix your media with Qollage.com | Welcome to NCS-Tech! - From KJarrett Wikipedia defines Visual Literacy as ?the ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an image.? This construct is on our educator minds a lot lately, as we seek tools and resources we can

Outside Voices, originally uploaded by krossbow.

Here is the plan:

Teachers need to hear other people than me saying how technology should be used in the classroom. So I will form a professional development group of 4 teachers. They will be required to listen to 2 podcasts of my choosing and one of their choice per week. We meet once a month for 45 minutes to discuss what they learned.

Required podcasts I am considering right now is The SmartBoard Lessons Podcast http://pdtogo.com/smart/ and Women of Web 2.0 http://edtechtalk.com/WomenofWeb2.0

Post a link in the comments if you can suggest another regularly posted podcast so I can build a list for them to choose from or if you have suggestions on how to make this a success.