Tim Holt's Blog – August 2007 Archive (10)

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Podcast Experiment



Greetings everyone!



I was wondering how many of you would be willing to participate in a podcast experiment that I was contemplating?



What I was thinking of doing was getting a group of my "friends" out here in blog land, having a Skype discussion. The topic of the conversation will be:



"Education Technology Use From Where I Am."



The purpose is to kind of give listeners an idea of what types of Ed Tech are used in different areas… Continue

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I have finished my 7 deadly sins article.

Here is the start of the article. The entire article is linked below.

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I have noticed a trend, probably because You Tube makes it easy to do, of adding commercials into keynotes, staff developments, presentations,

etc.



For instance, I have added Apple's classic "Think Different" commercial in a variety of trainings over the years.



Recently, my Superintendent added an ad into a presentation to administrators about constructing an airplane in flight.



I have also seen the famous "Elevator" comercial… Continue

This blog entry originally appeared on my Byte Speed Blog Site on April 30, 2007. Enjoy.









ADDING VALUE TO STUDENT LEARNING





About a year ago, there were a series of inservices in my district from a company called INOVA. This company was hired to help the district teach teachers how to look at data in a more meaningful way. While the… Continue

As first posted on my blog (IF you subscribed you would have had this by now...):







Really Cheap SOB Trick of the Week…





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This entry first appeared in my Byte Speed blog on January 2, 2007:



http://web.mac.com/timholt/iWeb/Byte%20Speed/Tim%27s%20Blog/B12E195D-7014-447A-988C-12E9EBECBAB8.html



"In fact, one of the saddest but most common conditions in elementary school computer labs (when they exist in the developing world), is the children are being trained to use Word, Excel and PowerPoint," Negroponte wrote in an e-mail interview. "I consider that criminal, because children should be making… Continue

Hi everyone.

Sorry I have been so quiet. Summer vacations, kidney stones, kids with broken wrists...it has been quite a summer.



Anyway, will be getting going soon. In the meantime, here is a podcast on a really cool program called "Jazz Up Your Curriculum With Video Conferencing"



Here is the podcast:

http://web.mac.com/timholt/iWeb/Byte%20Speed/Pod%20Speed/EC05FADD-7486-41FE-B633-701E73A076D6.html



The podcast is a reflection session with the ten… Continue