Tag: google
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Join Our 10th STEMseeds Google Hangout Saturday April 4th
(cross-posted from STEMSeeds.org) Please plan to join STEMseeds’ tenth live, Google Hangout with elementary STEM teacher Kylie Sanders on Saturday, April 4, 2015, at 10:30 Eastern / 9:30 Central / 8:30 Mountain / 7:30 Pacific time. Kylie is an elementary STEM teacher in Piedmont, Oklahoma, and is finishing up her first year in this fulltime…
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iPad Classroom Workflow: Publishing Student Videos to YouTube
It’s not the “norm” today but it should be: Every K-12 classroom teacher needs access to a YouTube channel to publish student work as well as their own videos. The past two years I’ve used a classroom YouTube channel for my elementary STEM class. Video is a very powerful medium, and Google provides teachers via…
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Spots Still Available for Google Summit in OKC: Feb 21-22
If you live in or near Oklahoma City and have not already, please register today for the Google Summit coming to Bishop McGuinness High School on Saturday, February 21 and Sunday, February 22, 2015. Register online and get more information at ok.gafesummit.com. You can use the discount code “FRYER” to take 10% off your registration price, as…
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10 Percent Off Google Education Summit Oklahoma City: Feb 21-22, 2015
If you have not already, please make plans to attend the two day Google Education Summit in Oklahoma City on Saturday, February 21 and Sunday, February 22, 2015. The summit will be hosted by the EdTech Team at Bishop McGuinness High School in OKC. More information including registration links is available on ok.gafesummit.com. You can use the discount code…
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STEMseeds is BACK on Saturday – Join us!
Join Amy Loeffelholz and Wesley Fryer on Saturday morning (Nov 22nd) for a Google Hangout conversation with Arizona science teacher Bethany Ligon, who was featured in the November 1, 2014 Classroom 2.0 Live show, “Technology Integration in Jr. High School.” Bethany has collected a variety of outstanding engineering design project lessons for her students, which she will…
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First Android-Edited Video: WeVideo App
This evening I edited, created, and published my first video using an Android-based Nexus 7 tablet. I used the free Android mobile app “WeVideo” to edit it, because it was recommended in this recent Google for Education video about creating stop motion videos in the classroom. I used some images and 1 video clip from…
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YouTube is the new Cable Channel Platform
Internet-based television (IPTV) is continuing to disrupt traditional media broadcasting models. As we await the launch of Apple’s expected television set (iTV) integrating iOS app functions including Siri voice control, this process will only accelerate. Writing about IPTV opportunity costs in “Is a vast video library worth the time and money?“, Daniel Frankel notes: “To…
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Visualizing Tornados in Oklahoma City with Google Earth
This afternoon in Missoula, Montana, I’ve enjoyed taking a Google Earth workshop with Jeff Crews. (This is Jeff’s intro Google Preso for our workshop, I’ll post more notes from his session soon.) Jeff showed us all kinds of layers and KML/KMZ files which can be viewed in Google Earth, including this layer of historical tornado…
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Web Browser Options #gct
I have shared the following information as a resource page on my “Technology 4 Teachers” curriculum wiki. Internet Explorer is NOT the only software option when it comes to viewing websites on the Internet. Websites SHOULD be designed to be standards-compliant, but sometimes they are not and display content differently in different web browsers. The following 69…