Category: web 2.0
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Teaching for the 21st Century by Tammy Worcester #cmtc10
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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VoiceThread Image Attribution
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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How to publish an audio lecturecast with Podcast Generator (screencast demo)
At the beginning of this fall semester, I described the process I’m using to publish regular audio recordings of my “Computers in the Classroom” course at UNT in the post, “Creating a course audio lecturecast (podcast) with Podcast Generator.” Today’s lesson focus was on Screencasting, so after class I used Screenr to create and publish…
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Cloud computing for Microsoft, Persistent requests for IT, and 3 screen strategies
Peter Bright’s November 16th article for Arstechnica, “Going all-in: Ars interviews Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer,” is well worth reading. Traditionally and historically, I think of Microsoft first when it comes to client-based computing. The Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of products are the foundation which built and still sustains the Microsoft empire. Microsoft…
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Learn About Google Apps and Geo-Apps Dec 14 & 15, 2010 in Oklahoma City
I’m pleased to announce two opportunities for educators as well as business professionals to learn more about Google Apps (Google Documents, Spreadsheets, Forms, Presentations and Drawing) as well as Google Geo-Apps (Google Maps and Google Earth) on December 14 and 15, 2010, in Oklahoma City. I will be leading both these full day, hands-on, BYOL…
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Google Lit Trips by Jerome Burg: Microsoft Education Award Laureate #gct
Congratulations to Jerome Burg, a phenomenal California educator, Google Certified Teacher, and Apple Distinguished Educator recently recognized as a 2010 “Microsoft Education Award Laureate” for his geo-app mashup, Google Literature Trips. This 2.5 minute video summarizes Google Lit Trips and shares a bit of Jerome’s passion for this kind of geographic, literature mashup. Last October…
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Archive of today/tonight’s #globaled10 Elluminate session: Share Your Ideas
If you missed the live Elluminate session of my keynote tonight during the 2010 Global Education Conference, “Share Your Ideas: Platforms for Publishing,” you can check out the full, archived recording. Like all the sessions in the conference, it’s entirely free. In all we had 52 people from around the world attend at least part…
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Share Your Ideas: Platforms for Publishing #globaled10
Please join me tomorrow at 6 pm CST (Fri 19 Nov 12:00AM GMT) for my keynote during the 2010 Global Education Conference. The session title is, “Share Your Ideas: Platforms for Publishing.” This is a LIVE, online presentation hosted by Elluminate. This is the link to the Elluminate session room, which will open one hour…