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Episode 43
Shout Outs:
- Greg Smith from Round Rock, TX, for promoting our podcast in his district. We love to hear from our listeners.
Google Docs & Spreadsheets
http://lifehacker.com/374302/google-docs-offline-access-rollout-starting-today
It’s going offline! Yay! It wasn’t an April Fool’s Joke! We don’t have it yet but we’re sure looking forward to it!
JotForm
http://jotform.com/
Create forms with drag and drop. Publish to spreadsheet. Share data. Free account only allows 100 submissions a month. $9 a month will get you unlimited plus a little more.
Education Packs on Twitter
http://twitterpacks.pbwiki.com/Education+Pack
A PB wiki site for building your Twitter network. We’ve linked straight to the Education pack but you can add yourself anywhere. And find other Twitterers with commons interests
Twubble
http://www.crazybob.org/twubble/
Loads up people you follow and then lists people THEY follow telling you how many of the people you follow follow them but you don’t follow. Do you follow?
Mnemograph: Web Based Timeline (thanks to tbarrett’s del.icio.us share)
http://mnemograph.com
A web-based timeline software application for creating, and sharing history and planning diagrams. Beautiful displays. Easy way to pull in Flickr images and Wikipedia history.
XTimeLine
http://www.xtimeline.com
Another web based timeline. Already has many historical timelines to view. Have to have a (free) account but you can add editors to the same timeline.
CompFight
http://compfight.com/
An advanced Flickr search. Turn safe search on/off. Creative Commons. Get all thumbnails on one page with a hover over for the size of the original images.
Jing Project
http://jingproject.com/
Capture video, images and allows you to publish on their site or locally. Embed link, email. All free.
Start Your Search Engines
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6545435.htm
April feature article we wrote on search engines.
Episode 30
Woo-hoo! We’re ba–aa-ck! It’s been a hectic start of school for both of us, but we think we might be ready to get back on track. Here’s our latest episode notes–at the same time as our episode is posted no less!
Episode 30
Resources
EarthCache
http://www.geosociety.org/earthcache/
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gczp2n (for the definition)
An EarthCache is an educational form of a virtual cache. The reward for these caches is learning more about the planet on which we live - its landscapes, its geology or the minerals and fossils that are found there. Very cool for authentic earth science topics. This would have been great in our supplemental podcast, but we missed it. Also check out our friend Silvia’s blog for more on travel bugs and some great ideas to geocache with elementary students.
Google Sky
http://earth.google.com/sky/skyedu.html
The latest version of Google Earth 4.2 now features Google Sky which shows the celestial bodies that we see in the sky–think constellations, planets, galaxies, etc., including images from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Mahalo
http://www.mahalo.com/
Mahalo is a human-powered search engine that creates organized, comprehensive, and spam free search results for the most popular search terms. Our search results only include great links. Pre-done searches, but you can get Google results. Can do a side-by-side with Google using Mahalo Follow (free download).
Archive.org
http://www.archive.org
The Internet Archive is a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Provide free access to text, audio, video, and more, including university lectures, famous speeches, and public domain books. Probably more of a teacher resource, as there are lots of resources, some of which may not be appropriate for kids.
Preezo
http://preezo.com/
An Ajax web application that gives you the power to create and share professional quality presentations over the web without software or plugins. Simple, but lots of potential.
iLife ‘08
http://www.apple.com/ilife/
http://www.apple.com/ilife/whatsnew.html
All new updates, extended features, and major changes. We’ll be featuring more in the coming months as we play more with the new software.
Integration Ideas:
- Using photos of kids for job charts, pictographs, pre-readers, etc.
- Disposable cameras for students
- Keeping parents updated via podcasts
- Classroom image gallery/wiki/moodle/blog, etc
Discussion
- False sense of security from school filters
- Original post by Steve Dembo and then comment by high school student– http://www.techlearning.com/blog/2007/08/false_sense_of_security_from_s.php
- Internet Safety
- Cyber Smart–http://www.cybersmartcurriculum.org/lesson_plans/
- NetSmartz Kids–http://www.netsmartzkids.org/ (online safety and more)
- Internet Safety Activity Cards–http://www.netsmartz.org/resources/activitycards.htm
- Netiquette–http://www.albion.com/netiquette/index.html
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