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Episode 54 – The one where you hear Anna’s iPhone buzzing
Resources
- 10 Microsoft Word Tricks Every Teacher Should Know – via @brasst, a short list of great productivity shortcuts you might not know about
- 26 Twitter Clients for Mac – Short review of different Twitter clients
- Twitter Resources – From Sports Media Challenge (scroll down and to the right for PDF documents on Twitter Best Practices and Twitter 101)
- Compfight – Find images for comps, inspiration or research. A Flickr search tool
- PBWiki – they’re changing their name!
- Free eBook – Engaging the Whole Child: Reflections on Best Practices in Learning, Teaching, and Leadership
- MapAList – Create maps using location data in a Google Spreadsheet
- raman amplifierReadItLater – Save web pages to read later. Sync between computers and iPhone
- Comments 4 Kids – A hashtag on Twitter for finding students’ work to comment on
iFaves
- AudioBoo (free in iTunes) – instantly publish a podcast with your iPhone
- Ocarina (99ยข in iTunes) – the first true musical instrument created for the iPhone
Episode 26
Shout-Outs
- Kudos to Dan Schmit for putting together a great podcasting contest, and thanks for asking us to help with the judging. There were over 150 entries, and we want to congratulate all the winners! Check out http://www.intelligenic.com/blog/ to see a list of winners!
Resources
http://www.geogebra.org/cms/
GeoGebra is a free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for schools that joins geometry, algebra and calculus. Points, vectors, constructions, equations, and more. There’s also a wiki with a number of educational resources, lesson plans, and more!
http://www.stellarium.org/
Stellarium is another free and multi-platform software that shows a realistic 3-D sky on your computer. Site includes a wiki for learning about the application and an Education link at the bottom of the page that links to an external site with lessons sorted by grade level.
http://www.mindmeister.com/ Collaborative Mind Mapper allows people to hold online real-time brainstorming sessions and manage and share your mind maps online.
http://www.iquizlibrary.com/
http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/collection.php?collectionID=860
iQuiz is a new game for the iPod – only $0.99. You can create your own iQuizzes to use on the game. These sites are collections of iQuizzes for educational purposes. Well, not JUST educational. Also http://www.iquizmaker.com/ to have kids create their OWN quizzes – a much better way to reinforce their learning.
http://map.talleye.com/index.php
Tall Eye lets you set two points on a Google map, and it will create a straight line connecting those points and then all around the world. On a flat map the line will make a sine wave because of the curvature of the earth. Will open in Google Earth.
http://www.mymapsplus.com/
My Maps Plus provides users the ability to create your MyMaps with Google Maps and get code to embed into your web site. Includes “Big Map of My Maps” which is a map of the mymaps.
http://www.writingfix.com/
WritingFix provides writing prompts, some in small increments, based on 6+ writing traits. Check out the section for teachers and students and the left-brain/right-brain prompts. Great for quick ideas, as well as prompts based on popular books–inspiring for kids and adults! Here’s the link to the “shoes” prompt we love so much, and this is Brian’s blog at “Learning is Messy” where Anna first read about this prompt. He has a great extension to this idea posted that uses digital photography and Flickr.
Integration Ideas
- Summer reading–use a wiki or blog so that students can discuss what they are reading and continue to write!
- Summer reading/learning–kids can podcast what they are reading about or share websites that they find interesting. CrowdAbout might be a good tool to use for this.
- Write a collaborative novel with your students! PBWiki and Google Docs would be good tools for this!
- Teachers–summer is a great time to extend your learning by reading those journals, trolling blogs, writing your own thoughts and listening to podcasts–like ours!
Episode 23–Short and Sweet
Episode 23 Podcast Notes
Shout-Outs
- Muchas gracias to our friend, Marco for our new intro bumper–what do you think??
- Phyllis in Virgina for another contribution to the mic fund!
- Craig for recommending us and being another ADE class of 07 and correcting our pronunciation of Sacajawea (we think we still need an audio recording rom him!)
- Cybercompliments–thank you, Silvia and Frank!
- Thanks to Eric, who was gracious enough to let us interview him via Skype. This was the first time we recorded via Skype, and although we thought we had it, the final recording needs some work. So, stay tuned for episode 24 to hear his interview.
Resources
http://www.brainpopjr.com/
Free until May! Subscription-based animated video service that has great content.
http://www.zamzar.com/
Free online file conversion–convert documents, images, music, and video FROM various formats TO various formats. Emails you a URL (that is live for 24 hours) where you can download your converted file.
http://maps.google.com/maps
Make your own maps on Google. MyMaps is a new feature that makes it quick and easy to create your own custom Google map just by pointing and clicking. You can add placemarks, draw lines and shapes, and embed text, photos and videos.
http://www.terraclues.com/
TerraClues is an online game that makes use of the popular Google Maps technology. The goal is to find hidden markers placed on the world map by solving a series of clues. Clues can range from simple text descriptions to actual photos of landmarks or map screenshots. You can play current games or make your own and share!
http://witchesandwiki.pbwiki.com/
Witches and Wiki is the first interactive novel via wiki, about 13 authors. Just write for a password so that you can contribute.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1601837,00.html
Q&A article with Jimmy Wales, co-creator of Wikipedia. Talks about the validity of Wikipedia and other things.
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Main_Page
Citizen’s Compendium is an open wiki project aimed at creating an enormous, free, and reliable encyclopedia. Requires real email addresses and has accountability because there is no anonymity.