Matt Christensen

47, Male

Sioux Falls, SD

United States

Profile Information:

School / Work Affiliation
Brandon Valley High School
Blog
http://scholarlynx.blogspot.com
Website
http://mc053.k12.sd.us
About Me
I teach Applied English and College Bound English, classes for seniors. I am also an MA student in Literature at the University of South Dakota. Soon, I'll be teaching a blogging class to other teachers in our district, though I'm really a novice compared to many of you.

Comment Wall:

  • Kevin

    Welcome from Pennsylvania.

    May 23, 2008

  • Gerald Ardito

    I can't imagine teaching well without also being a student.

    Jun 13, 2008

  • Gerald Ardito

    Matt,

    When you choose a story from the On the Media site, you are given a bunch of options (listen, download, for example). One of them is "Embed HTML." When you click on it, you get a snippet of code which you paste into you website (blog in my case) when editing it.

    Have fun. It's cool.
    Gerald

    Jun 16, 2008

  • Gerald Ardito

    Matt,

    When you got to You Tube or TeacherTube and select a video, you will see am "embed code." Copy this and then paste it onto your Blogspot page.

    When you are working on a post in Blogspot, you select the "HTML" option, then paste in the code.

    Let me know if you have any other questions.
    Gerald

    Jun 16, 2008

  • Gerald Ardito

    Matt,

    You are very kind (and funny).

    Gerald

    Jun 16, 2008

  • Mike

    Sketchcast is a great tool to record what you're writing/drawing. Here's an example. It's easy to embed your sketchcasts and you can voice along with it. There are a bunch more that I've posted on my classroom blog. A similar app is sketchfu, but the site seems to be down a lot. Both work best with a sketchpad.

    Jun 30, 2008

  • Mike

    Thanks for the nice words. I see you're teaching a class on blogging. Though I haven't looked very hard, there doesn't seem to be a lot of empirical research on blogging - just a lot of opinions. I agree that it is a great tool for the classroom, but haven't heard of any great studies on it. Have you found any good sources/studies?

    Jul 1, 2008