Thousands of educators online and in-person congregated together, as the DEN team went house to ‘house to house’ to explore the many digital treats available to educators today. During this unique professional development event, attendees had the flexibility to attend online or in-person at one of many regional events hosted by the DEN Leadership Councils. (Thanks to Lance for posting this on the National Blog!)
Newly recruited TN DEN blog contributor Scott Merrick will be featured on next Tuesday’s episode of ISTE Eduverse Talks. This will be Scott’s second appearance in as many episodes on that popular Second Life bi-weekly talk show.
The panel discussion show is hosted by another DENizen, Kevin Jarrett (KJ Hax in SL). This time Scott will be appearing with dear friends and MUVErs LLC partners Cathy Walker and John Miller. Though it’s always archived for asynchronous viewing or listening, it’s exciting to be present in Second Life for the live show taping, which requires every bit of technical staging as a real-world live television show. Come by inworld at 5:00 pm SLT (Pacific) time and enjoy the experience!
The series’ producers have already posted a tantalizing description of the upcoming episode: Read all about it! Here’s a SLurl! There is also a web-based viewing link, in the event that you would like to watch the live show as it is being filmed (this link will only be productive during the live show). Here’s that link: ISTE - A dedicated stream for ISTE, The International Society of Technology in Education http://streams.treet.tv/iste.mov
Look for Scott’s blog contributions here very soon!
One of the questions I get asked most often by teachers at my school is this, “How can I show a video from YouTube in my classroom?” I’ve always sent them the way of Zamzar to download videos to a flash drive and show at school from there. It works great, but it is limiting. The broader question for me has always been, “How do I get kids to great content on YouTube and cut out all the junk?”
Drum roll please.
I am now using a fantastic site called Fliggo. Fliggo sets up a video streaming site with a layout similar to YouTube. You can upload your own videos or post a video from YouTube. (Currently, YouTube is the only video hosting site Fliggo uses).
Unlike using an embed code where the video is pulled into the school through the YouTube site, Fliggo actually hosts the video on their site. Once you get your personal Fliggo site approved at school, all the videos play!
I pulled in a couple of videos I made, a few from the Palm Breeze Cafe series, and was ready to try it out.
I sent out a short email announcement about my site to the teachers at my school today. I am already getting URL requests to load YouTube videos on the site for other teachers.
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 finished uploading to TeacherTube.
When you add resources to DEN site, you also have the option to allow others to embed your resource into their website, blog, etc.
Below is an example of one of the videos I uploaded. Do you know how hard it is to find videos that help teach propaganda?
So, if you are a DEN STAR, start uploading your resources today. If you aren’t a STAR member yet, fill out that form and get access to some of the best teacher-made resources on the web.
I got an email from BrainPop yesterday informing me of a new video on 9/11. I immediately took a look and…wow…it is great.
Using the popularity of Tim and Moby to tackle such a difficult subject for school-age children really works. The video is informative without being shocking. It sets a mood of respect and compassion for those who lost their lives in the Twin Towers.
Most importantly for me, it does a great job of explaining terms like Islam, Fundamentalism (in all religions), Terrorism, and more.
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