June 2009 Blog Posts (133)

Record Software Tutorials with Voice-over Narration

Some screen recorder like DemoCreator enables users to create narration-based software presentations with ease. Here we will learn how to use DemoCreator's advanced audio capabilities to add and edit audio in your movies. This screen recorder provides 3 ways to add the audio to the screen recordings: record sound at capture time, record sound at preview time, import audio file to the screen…

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Added by Tim on June 22, 2009 at 2:39am — No Comments

More on digital textbooks

ABC has a very comprehensive story on the Gov. Schwarzenegger's plan to switch to digital textbooks. For those into ed tech, it is a story to follow.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Economy/story?id=7827997&page=1

Added by Steve Tanksley on June 21, 2009 at 7:08pm — No Comments

Featured student blog: meet Ann

Cross-posted at Fireside Learning and ThinkTime.

Many teachers shy away from contemporary music. Why? It could be because their own teachers did the same.

That quote comes from Ann, an aspiring music educator at the… Continue

Added by Jennifer Koch Lubke on June 21, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Ready to get started...

One of my twin daughters is now all married... and all the family is gone. So - now I can get started on learning more about blogs, wikis and other such things that I've heard about but have never really used. When I took five of our Odyssey of the Mind teams to World Competition in Ames, Iowa - I "blogged" our trip on Facebook. I took tons of pictures and wrote about the days activities. It was a lot of fun - but parents were forced to sign up with Facebook in order to follow the blog. I would… Continue

Added by Candace Townsley on June 21, 2009 at 4:56pm — No Comments

Possibilities 2.0

"Give me potential or give me death."

~yep, my version of Patrick Henry's stuff

Now that I think of it, I probably could have just entitled this one “2.0″ because this is now what this phrase means to me. I’m not going to go off… Continue

Added by Sean Nash on June 20, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Hand-Held Learning

Added by Kevin on June 20, 2009 at 6:18pm — 3 Comments

25 Days of Christmas Tour 2009

Dear Sir/Madam. I am writing to you to offer you the opportunity to be involved with the Greatest Historic Event to hit the Cities of America this Christmas.

Our organization Santalivenow (website http://www.santalivenow.com :-America’s No 1. Christmas website) is planning a Christmas Tour to visit 25 Cities in 25 days of December this year supporting the Children’s Charity… Continue

Added by Santa on June 20, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Improve school communication with P2 for Wordpress

I've worked in a tiny middle school with nine classrooms and 180 students and I've worked in a large middle school with four floors and just under one thousand students. In both schools, communication was an issue. How do you make everyone aware of everything? Administrators can get on the public announcement system every time something comes up—but that wears on everyone's patience relatively quickly and if I'm in the bathroom or out getting a cup of coffee, I still didn't get the… Continue

Added by Steve Kinney on June 20, 2009 at 4:56am — No Comments

1st Post on Classroom 2.0

Hi everyone,
I am supposed to create a Classroom 2.0 account and link this page from Appalachian State University WEB 2.0 Tools classroom profile. I hope I read the assignment correct!

Bye for now.

Iris

Added by Iris Hilton on June 19, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

IIM CAT Goes Online in 2009 – How to Crack CAT 2009 Online?

Previously, I wrote an article on GMAT 2009 for working professionals planning to do MBA abroad specifically top MBA colleges in US. This article will be useful for college students (B.E, B.Tech, B.Com, B.A etc) in their final year and working professionals who are planning to pursue MBA from top B schools in India.

As you all must be aware that IIM CAT goes online in 2009 but it is still not clear what exactly will be the format of CAT 2009… Continue

Added by Saumil Shrivastava on June 19, 2009 at 3:00am — No Comments

Getting Ideas

Ok, thanks for all of the help everyone. I am looking at everything you put out there for me and it is making a huge difference. The only thing is there is so much, I don't know where I really should start. If anyone has a suggestion on how or where to start, just drop me a note.

Thanks.

Added by Cary Fields on June 18, 2009 at 11:53pm — No Comments

The Connected student

I ran across this video about the connected student, accessing their education through a variety of resources including scholarly research, blog searches, rss feeds, and elements of the open courseware movement. Really great intro to connectivism...

Click here

Added by Scott on June 18, 2009 at 11:54am — No Comments

Teachers TV - From Good to Outstanding

Hi everyone, I’m working on behalf of Teachers TV to ask for teachers to give their advice and opinions to fellow teachers who are taking part in a new series of From Good to Outstanding. I thought the teachers on this site would find this relevant, so I hope this is OK to post here (I also posted this in the forum but then thought it warranted a blog post). The series started on 9th June 2009 and we would really like more teachers to get involved… Continue

Added by Teachers TV on June 18, 2009 at 10:10am — No Comments

Ipod/voice recorder

I have been researching how to use the ipod and voice recorders to help improve the fluency of my first graders, but have had a difficult time finding voice recorders that are compatible with ipods any suggestions on ipods and voice recorders that go together would be very helpful. Thanks.

Added by Jeremy Joseph Behnke on June 18, 2009 at 9:53am — No Comments

Best Sites On Iranian Protests, TED Talks, Inventions, ESL/EFL Blogs & More

Hi, Everybody,

Here are some of the latest "The Best..." lists I've compiled:

The Best Places To Find Online Video Games For Language-Learning

(http://tinyurl.com/n9sxz6)

A Beginning List Of The Best Resources For Learning About Facebook

(http://tinyurl.com/lfnto4)

The “Best” Blog Carnivals

(http://tinyurl.com/mwlrrb)

The Best Sources Of Advice For Teachers (And Others!) On How To Be Better… Continue

Added by Larry Ferlazzo on June 18, 2009 at 5:20am — No Comments

Mathematics typesetting w/ LaTeX in MediaWiki

Here is a screencast to get you started writing mathematics for the web:

http://www.screencast.com/t/IO8PU8zbGSU

you can try out your skills at http://jasperstreet.homeip.net/wiki and make a legit page or just try some stuff out on the sandbox page.

Added by Geoff St. Pierre on June 17, 2009 at 6:51pm — No Comments

Stereoscopics, Haptics, & 3D Virtual Worlds for Learning

In some of my earliest planning for Edusim back in 2007 I developed a "List" of developmental functions (the Nov. 2007 post with complete list is here). Among the items of that list were haptics, a surround physical space (as we are working on with the "mobile immersive learning lab") and… Continue

Added by Rich White on June 17, 2009 at 8:46am — No Comments

Engineering game

Students from Bath University are using a computer car-racing game to help them to learn the principles of engineering.

The computer simulation game 'Racing Academy' allows first-year engineering students to theoretically design aspects of a racing car, such as the tyres, gearbox and engine, before racing it against a computer-generated car.

The teaching tool has now been analysed by psychologists and engineers at the university to gauge how effective gaming can be as a… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on June 17, 2009 at 8:03am — No Comments

5 Effective Ways to Create Online Quiz

Online quiz becomes more and more prevalent in the web 2.0 era. For bloggers or webmasters, quiz is an outstanding way for engaging readers and growing blog or Web site traffic. For trainers, online quiz is a good e-assessment authoring tool. For business men, an online quiz can also be used as a sales tool. Here are 5 ways to create quiz for online use.

1. Create quiz with desktop Flash quiz maker

Some Flash quiz makers supply an easy way to create professional… Continue

Added by SunnyY on June 17, 2009 at 2:50am — 1 Comment

Textbooks going the way of the 8 track tape?

Interestingly enough mostly reported in foreign newspapers, Gov. Schwarzenegger of California is seriously thinking about doing away with textbooks in high schools in order to cut costs in the long run. Personally, I like this idea. Can you imagine all the trees we can save? However, not everyone is for the idea, there is thing called accessibility to content that has to be worked out.

Here is the story… Continue

Added by Steve Tanksley on June 16, 2009 at 10:38pm — 2 Comments