Episode 22

Episode 22

Shout-Outs

• Holly from Texas, thanks for donating to the mic bank! She wants to hear us better!
• Our friend, Matt, at Apple. He brought us copies of Dan Pink’s A Whole New Mind to celebrate our ADE honor. That’s right! We’re part of the Apple Distinguished Educator Class of 2007! Thanks to Matt and to all of you who sent us encouragement, well-wishes, and comments. We added your recommendations to our applications, and we’re sure they heard you! Thanks again!!
• We love librarians! Really!
• Lorie is writing an article about Web 2.0 tools for a group of faculty. She wants to know what is your favorite Web 2.0 tool? How do you use it in the classroom? Here is a link to many Web 2.0 tools: http://www.go2web20.net/. Log it in to her post at our forums and post a response to her. Or visit her site here.
• Thanks for feedback! We’re adding some comments to the end of our podcast for you to share.

Resources
http://www.technospudprojects.com/Projects/eggroll2007/eggroll2007.htm
The Great Egg Roll 2007 – another collaborative project by Jen at technospud. Hurry! Project runs from March 26-April 13.

http://www.teachertube.com/
YouTube for teachers (maybe your district won’t block this one!) – safe place to post and watch videos for teachers and students.

http://www.pbwiki.com/
Very simple website for your class that multiple people can edit. Think wiki with no ropes attached! No email address needed. Kids can use an alias. One password for the whole site. Locks multiple users out of page to prevent overwriting editing.

http://ecamm.com/mac/conferencerecorder/
Conference Recorder for recording video iChats for vodcasting. Will also take QT movies and convert to mp3 for the audio only. Lots of other plug-ins at the site. Not free, but definitely inexpensive!

http://10base-t.com/
DropCopy’sjust a cool app! Only on the Mac, but allows you to drag and drop files to multiple users on your LAN. Also see IP Broadcaster and IP Scanner – two more helpful apps that we love!

http://plasq.com
Comic Life – beta in April for Windows users- watch here for more news!

http://toondoo.com
The Online Cartoon Strip Creator

http://www.21classes.com/
21 Classes lets teachers set up and manage a multi-user blog solution with independent blogs for students. Easy. No student email addresses required.

http://www.schoolr.com/
Schoolr is touted as “the only resource you’ll need.” Find Google search, Wikipedia search, dictionary, thesaurus, acronym search, urban dictionary, encyclopedia, citation builder, book summary search, text translator and unit converter all on one page.

Commentary
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2007/03/march_30_participate_in_stop_c_1.html
Stop Cyberbullying Day is March 30th! We have to take a stand and speak out against what is happening. Freedom of speech does not mean you can harass and force people to hide out in their houses. Use March 30th to talk with your students about cyberbullying–what to do if they are being bullied and how not to be a cyberbully. This is not just kids, but everyone! (don’t forget to tag your online entries with stopcyberbullying)

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