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Episode 52 – Back from Canada, eh!

In this episode of Tech Chick Tips…

Pinto MacBean in Bow Island, Alberta Creative Commons License photo credit: Fracture

We’re back from Canada and the Teacher2Teacher conference. Love our new friends! We blabber on a bit so if you’re not interested in our trip to Canada, fast forward to about 11:42 :)

Resources

  • PageKeeper – quickly and easily create a webpage of links to share with your students and parents. Free with no advertising! Best example of its use: DJBecker’s Page
  • DrivingKids – Here’s a first – we talk about something we pointedly do not recommend. Listen to the podcast to find out why! Well, okay – it’s because the navigation is clunky, the games aren’t easily discernible to ability level and the chat has very little protection for kids
  • SmartPhone Filters – discussion of filtering on smartphones for students/kids and a link to one such application for the iPhone
  • WebSlides on Diigo – turn a collection of bookmarks (or an RSS feed!) into a slideshow. Look for an example at the end of this, and all forthcoming podcast episode notes
  • TweetCall – call in your Twitter updates for free!

iFaves

  • GeoLogTag ($4.99 @iTunes) – use your iPhone as a geotagger to snyc up your photos with your location

 


5 People have left comments on this post

Apr 11, 2009 - 07:04:38
Lisa said:

Is there a way to go to the ‘real’ facebook page of Abe lincoln? I tried to look ‘him’ up on FaceBook, and there were like 100′s of pages. Can we view them, just not post on them? Did you girls make it, or did you happen across it?
Thanks!

Apr 12, 2009 - 02:04:33
Anna said:

I don’t think there is going to be a “real” FaceBook page for Lincoln. There would have to be way too many other fake characters to make that work. I’m guessing this was completely generated outside of Facebook, except of course for the borrowing of images. I haven’t reviewed it, but I’m pretty sure the TOS on FaceBook wouldn’t allow the creation of fake pages anyway. I stumbledupon this image. No idea how it came about, but thought it was a great idea for an alternative assessment on History.

Apr 13, 2009 - 09:04:31
Lisa said:

Well, I absolutely LOVE it! I never heard of “stumbleupon” either, until you linked in your comment. That must’ve taken a LOT of work, if someone had to create the facebook clone from scratch! Totally neat idea. I wonder if someone would make a fake networking site and put historical people up there–just for academic purposes, of course ;)If not electronic, have kids draw out the template, and put a historical figure into their creation… hmmm…

May 14, 2009 - 06:05:38
Donna said:

Hi – I just stumbled upon your page and I was surprised and complimented to see that you listed my link as one to check out on PageKeeper.

Thanks ;-) djbecker

May 14, 2009 - 06:05:00
Anna said:

DJBecker – Thank YOU for having such a great collection of links! I shared it with my teachers, too. :)