These are my iPad blogged notes from Paula Churchhill’s presentation, “Sound Recording in the Classroom” at the 2010 Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference. MY COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. We are going to address the Why, What and Why for sound recording in the classroom Why? – fluency – alternative to writing – students hear themselves
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The easiest way to blog on an iPad, which I have used to date, is to: – Type notes in Notes (free, comes on the iPad) – Email your notes to post@posterous.com That’s it! It is possible to configure your Posterous website to cross-post to other websites and locations, but that is not required. I
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These are my iPad blogged notes from Pamela Carr’s presentation, “This I Believe: Community Sharing Through Art, Writing and Video” at the 2010 Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference. See handouts on: http://nhcmtc.org/Extensions/?s=920 Model: http://thisibelieve.org/ Our project goals: Bring community together Have students synthesize their one true belief into writing, art and video Have students look at
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These are my notes from Jonathann Reed and Sharon Parsons’ breakout session, “iPads in the Classroom” at the the 2010 Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference in Manchester, NH on 30 Nov 2010. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Track conference conversations using the Twitter hash tag #cmtc10. Sharon teaches 6th grade and Jon is
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These are my notes from Tammy Worcester’s Tuesday keynote at the 2010 Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference in Manchester, NH on 30 Nov 2010. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Track conference conversations using the Twitter hash tag #cmtc10. All Tammy’s keynote and breakout session links / resources are available on her website handouts
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This podcast is an interview with Ruslana Westerlund, the creator of the ELL Bill of Rights (ellbillofrights.com) and the keynote speaker at the “Co-teaching and Collaboration Conference” in St Paul, Minnesota on 12 Nov 2010, at the School Community of Excellence. Ruslana is an educator originally from Ukraine, and has worked for years with English
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Interesting to see Microsoft is following in Apple’s footsteps with its efforts to tightly control software which will run on it’s latest mobile platform, Windows Phone 7. It is also interesting to read today that unapproved third party apps, known as “jailbroken” apps in the iOS world, are apparently coming to Windows Phone 7. From
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Enroute to the 2010 Christa Mcauliffe Technology Conference in Manchester, New Hampshire, I read Anthony DeCurtis’ article “Rock n Roll Yogi” in the November 2010 issue of Delta Sky magazine. In the article, Anthony quotes Sting as saying: I don’t think that anything that doesn’t involve a risk is worth doing. There needs to be
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This Thanksgiving holiday when we took a family Christmas card photo, I asked everyone to hold their smart phone, iPod or iPad. I’ve been very aware of the proliferation of mobile, wireless devices during our holiday get-togethers, and this year (as I expected) there were more screens present than ever. Did you notice more mobile
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I’m glad to see tablets proliferating, although I have yet to “test drive” one which has a comparable feel, user experience and app selection to/as the Apple iPad. Yesterday in Independence Mall just outside Kansas City, I was interested to see Pocketbook tablets for the first time. These tablets were most notable for their prices:
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Today during our family “Black Friday” outing to Independence Mall just outside Kansas City, I met Loyd Jackson. Loyd is the inventor of the Media Muff. As a deer hunter, Loyd found himself wanting a way to text on his cell phone but keep his hands warm up in a deer stand. After experimenting with
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In the November 24th New York Times article, “For Google, the Browser Does it All,” leaders at Google offer some insights into how Android and the forthcoming Google OS (operating system) may change the computing landscape dramatically. Linus Upson, the Google VP in charge of engineering for Chrome, sees Google operating systems as major threats
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When someone has an app on the homepage of their iPhone, there’s a pretty good chance it’s a good one. Today as our family is together for Thanksgiving, I noticed the app “Occasions: Birthdays & More!” on my mom’s iPhone homescreen. (iTunes link – 99¢) Since I don’t have many birthdays in my MobileMe contacts
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Thanks to a VoiceThread project on “The True Story of the Three Little Pigs” by one of my UNT students, I learned recently about the website “Teaching Children Philosophy.” Tom Wartenberg, the creator of the website, published the book “Big Ideas for Little Kids: Teaching Philosophy through Children’s Literature” in 2009. Tom built his website
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VoiceThread provides a great way for students to provide “clickable” links to the websites where they originally found images used in their interactive digital stories. When editing an image in VoiceThread, click below the image in the thumbnail in the left column of the screen to add a title and link: Then add the desired
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According to a news article in today’s Daily Oklahoman, “new Oklahoma Governor-elect Mary Fallin has appointed Phyllis Hudecki [to] serve as Oklahoma’s secretary of education.” Fallin will be sworn in as the first female governor in Oklahoma history on January 10th. Hudecki’s title may be a little confusing to state outsiders, since she will not
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Although you might not guess it at times looking at my computer desktop or my “office area” in our house, I like to be organized. For many months now, however, I’ve been overwhelmed with the large number of applications and screens on my iPad. Since our family shares an iTunes library and all our applications,
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Goodreader and iAnnotate are the two best applications I’ve used to date for reading PDF files and annotating them on an iPad. I like the way iAnnotate supports signatures, which can be handy when you need to sign a document, but I don’t like the fact that it doesn’t handle double column PDFs for annotations
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Do students at your school take care of their laptops, or the laptops they are able to use on carts kept at school? Lenovo sponsored the following ten minute CSI-spoof video to help students understand the critical need to take care of laptops, especially Thinkpad laptops featured in this video. This video was created by
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I posted the following as a comment on Darren Miller’s post, “Another Reason To Oppose Tax Increases.” Darren is a fellow USAFA grad, but has (in some cases) political views more conservative than my own. The gist of his post was that because our government leaders have a pattern of overspending, the solution is to
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