As a Star Wars fan familiar with the “Mary Did You Know” song, I found the YouTube remix “Vader Did You Know?” song and video HILARIOUS today. Enjoy! This video is a great example of fair use and legal video remixing. Show this to your students and discuss it. Is this legal? Are the creators
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This evening I spent about fifteen minutes creating a short fairy tale with the iPad app, “Puppet Pals.” I’ve titled this 7 minute, 40 second animated classic, “Seeking Adventure in the Wide World.” Any correlation to real situations and people, including the epic struggle now underway to change the draconian content filtering policies of a
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These are my notes from Jack Berckemeyer‘s opening keynote at the “Middle Level Years Learn-Tech Conference: Creating Connections For Educators Of Middle Level Students” in Doha, Qatar, on October 7, 2011. There is NO way my notes can possibly do justice to Jack’s dynamic, humorous, and engaging presentation style. WOW. This was one of the
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Faculty and staff in O’Neill, Nebraska, have kicked off a new school year with a fun new media twist: In two hours they planned and recorded a wonderful lip dub set to
This 30 second advertisement for the new Samsung Infuse 4G smartphone will make you laugh. Is the spider real, or is it virtual? Of course it’s an exaggeration, but the video does make the very serious point that graphics on new smartphones can be amazingly detailed. I’m generally not a big fan of advertisements and
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Comedian Don McMillian‘s 2008 skit, “Life After Death By PowerPoint” (4 min, 24 sec) is a favorite video of mine to share with pre-service education students learning how to use images effectively in the “Presentation Zen” style of Garr Reynolds. photo © 2007 Gareth Saunders | more info (via: Wylio) Yesterday, thanks to a tweet
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The current TMobile advertisement for their 4G network data plans, “Step Up to Nationwide 4G Without Losing Your Shirt,” is pretty funny– particularly their portrayal of the AT&T exec. The setup for the advertisement is a direct play on Apple’s “Get a Mac” ad campaign featuring John Hodgman as PC and Justin Long as Mac.
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Have you been affected by winter weather this week? I’m sure northerners used to REAL cold temperatures and heavy snowfalls will really get a kick out of this two minute clip from the Michael Berry Show. 37 degree temperatures in Houston can cause a city-wide panic! Hat tip to Houston resident and friend, Kristin Leard,
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On April Fool’s Day this year, Google introduced a hilarious video for a fictitious new application, Google Translate for Animals. I was amused to see recently that in addition to the original video, they also shared three other videos with translation examples from a cow, pig and chicken. My question is, what would a kiwi
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I watch almost zero television these days, but thanks to this Open Culture post I was able to watch 45 minutes of Conan O’Brien from his visit to Google last week. I watched this as a full screen video on my iPad. This is the future of TV, today. Get your own valid XHTML YouTube
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This just in… If you are amazed by the transcription power of Google Voice, wait till you and your best furry friend experience the power of “Google Translate for Animals.” April Fools! H/T to Jackie Gerstein and John Sowash. Technorati Tags: google, video, youtube, translate, aprilfools, #aprilfools
In the parody spirit of “The Doritos Tablet,” commentators at “The Onion” bring us “The MacBook Wheel.” Several good sound bytes here: Everything is just a few hundred clicks away… I’ll buy almost anything if it’s shiny and made by Apple… I like how the email automatically says, sent from a MacBook Wheel, that way
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If you’ve watched the official Apple commercial for the iPad (and perhaps even if you haven’t yet) you’ll likely find “The Doritos Tablet” spoof video hilarious! It’s 61 seconds long. Get ready for that “multi-taste interface.” Welcome to “spice 2.0!” H/T to one of my vendor friends here at the Palm Beach County Technology Conference,
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I created this today using “The Newspaper Clipping Generator.” I wish this was true. In case you can’t read the above text on this Flickr image, here it is as text: In a move that has stunned technology fear-mongers and edtech vendors statewide, the internet service provider “Two Flowers” has decided to unblock the website
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If you haven’t seen the 30 second Intel advertisement, “Sponsors of Tomorrow,” check it out now. It’s an effective teaser video for the life work of Ajay Bhatt at Intel, where he currently serves as “Chief Client Platform Architect.” Ajay is the the co-inventor of USB. I referenced this in my presentation last Monday, “Communicating
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Great cartoon. Via Whelmed and Tomaz Lasic. Technorati Tags: education, real, school, world, realworld
Here’s a fun Facebook option my sister showed me today. From your Facebook homepage, scroll all the way down and in the lower left corner click on your LANGUAGE. From the available choices, choose ENGLISH (Pirate) – beta. Now you can enjoy using Facebook and reading updates from your friends using Pirate English! Warning: Be
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As you may have guessed if you’ve perused images in my Flickr stream or visited our family learning blog, I love signs. Driving from Manchester, New Hampshire today to Augusta, Maine, for the ACTEM 2009 Conference, I found the following two signs at the Maine visitor’s center just across the border. I’m glad to know
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This week, the honor of being her preschool class snack leader falls again to my five year old daughter, Rachel. Inspired by her enthusiasm and excitement for the honor and responsibilities of being the class snack leader, this podcast features some dramatic narration from her dad, a little John Williams music reminding us of closing
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