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Episode 20 Uploaded!!
Shout-Outs
Bruce Wayne B–Receda, CA–one of our newest members on the forum–thanks for posting!
http://www.thinkquest.org/
ThinkQuest inspires students to think, connect, create, and share. Students (ages 9-19) work in teams to build innovative and educational websites to share with the world. Along the way, they learn research, writing, teamwork, and technology skills and compete for exciting prizes. Diverse teams and globally relevant themes are encouraged. Competition is still open until mid-April.
http://litesum.com/
Searches wikipedia and gives you instant wiki summaries. Don’t have to go to the whole wiki page, get a summary to see if that’s what you’re looking for or click to view the wikipedia entry. Created by Jake Jarvis, a freshman in HIGH SCHOOL. Brilliant kid. See more at http://jakejarvis.com/.
http://tuxpaint.org
Open Source drawing program. Free. Let’s kids be creative and draw. FREEware! Simple interface, cross platform. Stamps, paintbrushes, etc. Can also import pictures or draw from scratch. Includes other languages. Thank you Connie from KISD for the link!
http://word.sc/
Word Source – a social DICTIONARY. Cool for kids! Get to the word by adding it to the end of the url (i.e. http://word.sc/pelican). Thesaurus and fun stuff like tagging a word, hangman, or jumble. You can upload pictures to represent the words in the dictionary. Can also cite words to cite word source properly as a reference.
http://teachersteachingteachers.org
Cool concept–it’s exactly the type of social network that we’ve been talking about. Four teachers–Paul Allison, Lee Baber, Susan Ettenheim, and Thomas Locke–are mainly responsible for this blog, podcast, and webcast. They say, “We have two purposes: developing teacher knowledge and leadership in our own schools and districts and putting this knowledge and leadership to work to improve student online reading and writing through the use of blogs, wikis, podcasts and webcasts.”
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Podcast Episode #19
Episode 19 is uploaded! It’s our longest yet, but we had a lot to cover. Our future episodes should be more in the 20 – 25 minute range, but this one is worth a listen. Here’s what we talked about…
*We have a few more interviews from TCEA to follow general podcast…
- David from Google–nice to chat with him about all the Google tools and Google Academy for Teachers–please bring it to Texas!
- Wayne–new teacher from Killeen; energized and excited about what he’s learned at TCEA
- Brenda from Hickory Creek; and just for fun, Brenda, here’s the link to the UK ads for Mac: http://www.apple.com/uk/getamac/ads/
Tim Wilson — Apple Distinguished Educator friend who’s spearheading the podcasting of TCEA. We learned a LOT about equipment and can’t wait to talk to him further! For the Apple podcasts, go to http://ali.apple.com. In the right sidebar, under By Media find Podcasts, then Conference Connections then TCEA 2007. Or just click here.
Our take on David Warlick’s TECSIG lunch keynote.
St. Patrick’s Day Project
http://www.technospudprojects.com/Projects/stpat2007/stpat2007.htm
Grades PreK – 3
Porta Portal. Social bookmarking but with threaded tags – makes a neat view
http://www.portaportal.com/
IMified
http://www.imified.com/
A way to post to your blog via IM, but also set reminders to send to your IM. If used with forwarded IMs to mobile, great for reminders.
Finding reusable media
http://lifehacker.com/software/creative-commons/geek-to-live-6-ways-to-find-reusable-media-197538.php
Six ways to find media you can legally use in presentations and other non-for-profit media.
GIMP
http://www.gimp.org/
Photoshop capabilities for free. Open Source, most of the same features as the pricey Photoshop. A way to get an entire lab using professional software on a budget.
Picnik
http://www.picnik.com/
Photo editing ONLINE! Curves, exposure, red-eye. Another free way to do photo editing with your class. Can pull from flickr account, yahoo, internet, or your computer. still in beta, new features being added
Block Posters
http://www.blockposters.com/
Free web app that lets you turn any image into a wall poster. You upload image, tell it how many 8.5×11 sheets you want it to cover, it splices and gives you image back as several images for you to print and piece together. Great for maps from Google? Maps in general? Great math lesson – how big with the end result be? How many pages will we need to cover this wall space?
PowerPoint on an iPod
http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/
Export your PP to jpg. put in a folder and synch to your ipod. Attach iPod to tv or projector w/ cables. great for not having to haul a laptop. will work wtih other mp3 players that can show photos, of course
Photocasting in iPhoto – subscribe to photo albums and get current updates in iPhoto as they happen. Different from static web sites that don’t really change.
- Flicker -> iPhoto – just paste the Flickr RSS feed into the box and submit.
- Flickr2Photocast – enter a username and/or tags and/or text and say how many pictures you want and how to sort.
- Photocastr – authenticate yourself and you can subscribe to your own feeds, or just use tags on all photos, or go by interestingness or group you’re subscribed to.
ePals
http://www.epals.com/
A classroom exchange program to assist in linking up with buddy classes across the globe. Anyone using this? Tell us what you think!
Del.icio.us
http://del.icio.us
Get an account and anytime you find a site you think we’d find interesting to talk about on our podcast, tag the site with fortechchicks and we’ll be looking. You can search for the same and see what we have in the hopper for upcoming episodes!
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Fun with tags…
Maybe it’s the kid in me, but I’m having a little fun with Technorati tags. Anything I post will have one obscure, unrelated tag. Like this post.
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Speed Test
In response to Chris Craft’s speed test post, here’s mine. This is from home at about 7:15am. Might add from school later. But not today. I’m home with a sick little boy.
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TCEA…day 4
Another long day…we were involved with three presentations today–and as much fun as we’ve had, we’re very glad they’re over and looking forward to just learning tomorrow! We also did some random interviews today as part of our effort to podcast the conference. Anna is busily editing those responses and we hope to have them up as part of our next podcast. We had lots of fun walking up to perfect strangers and asking them about their TCEA experience! Stay tuned–we may be walking up to you tomorrow with our iPod set on RECORD!
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