Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Month: February 2012

  • How to Enable Comment Moderation on YouTube Videos

    (cross-posted from Instructional FAQs for Yukon Public Schools) When you post a video to YouTube, it is a good idea to turn ON comment moderation. As of this writing in February 2012, it is not possible to make “comment moderation ON” a default setting in YouTube. Follow these three steps after uploading a video to…

  • Publish a Combined iCloud Calendar and Google Calendar

    Unlike the previous version of MobileMe, Apple’s new iCloud service does not appear to provide a direct way to share a “read-only” webpage or embeddable version of a calendar. In this post, I’ll share how to use the free web service 30boxes to publish a combined iCloud Calendar and Google Calendar. This can be handy…

  • Vimeo or YouTube? Where to Post Family Videos?

    A family friend and member of our church has a middle school-aged son who is getting to be quite a videographer. I have taught him for two years in Sunday School, and have glimpsed on a few occasions some of the films he’s created with his friends. (Reminds me in a positive way of Super…

  • Create Illustrated PDF Stories with Story Patch on an iPad

    (Cross-posted from PlayingWithMedia.com) In this 14.5 minute video, 8 year old Rachel explains how to use the iPad application “Story Patch” to create illustrated stories. Download Rachel’s FREE enhanced eBook, “Snowflake Gets Lost,” on meetsnowflake.com. Learn more about Story Patch for iPad and download it from storypatch.com. We recorded this video using Screenflow software, and…

  • Visualizing Sharing #edushare

    Two of my top goals as an education advocate and “innovative instructional coach” in Yukon Public Schools this semester are to: help teachers overcome their fears about using multimedia with students to develop literacy skills encourage teachers to SHARE more As I prepared for the two presentations I shared on Tuesday this week at our…

  • Embed a MP3 Audio File in a WordPress.com Blog Post

    WordPress.com is a good, free blogging platform, but it can be trickier than Posterous to get rich media (like audio and video files) embedded in posts. Unlike Posterous, which lets users directly email audio and video files to a site where they are automatically converted to an “embedded form,” with WordPress.com you need to post…

  • Face the Facebook: Implications and Consequences for Educators Using Social Media by Colin Webb

    These are my notes from Colin Webb’s (Noble Public Schools) presentation, “Face the Facebook: Implications and Consequences for Educators Using Social Media” at the February 8, 2012 Oklahoma Technology Association / Encyclo-Media Conference. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I WANT TO EMPHASIZE (FOR THIS SESSION PARTICULARLY, BUT FOR OTHER SESSIONS I BLOG…

  • Harnessing the Digital Landscape by David Warlick

    These are my notes from David Warlick‘s presentation, “Harnessing the Digital Landscape” at the February 8, 2012 Oklahoma Technology Association / Encycl-Media Conference. David maintains the fantastic website “Landmarks for Schools” and blogs at 2¢ Worth. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The official session description was: Never before have the walls of…

  • Look at Me Now! Changing the Face of Professional Development

    These are my notes from Dawn Danker-Pearce and Kathy Davis, “Look at Me Now! Changing the Face of Professional Development” at the February 8, 2012 Oklahoma Technology Association / Encycl-Media Conference. Dawn and Kathy are with Yukon Public Schools. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The official session description was: Is it hard…

  • Learning About Notetaking on the iPad at @thedivorg via @ipadwithwes

    Last night I led the first “iPad App Coffee Chat” meetup at The Div in Edmond. We had six people in attendance and learned about a variety of note taking applications, focusing specifically on Evernote. Access more links to all the apps we discussed and learn more about these FREE, monthly meet ups in Edmond,…