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NECC, Here We Come!
Helen and I are getting ready for NECC. I can’t believe it’s here already! We’ll be driving down to San Antonio together on Saturday evening and are preparing for no sleep and lots of sharing and learning! We’re bummed we’ll miss the Edubloggers and the Twitter meet up. How unfair! But we do hope we run into old and new friends! If you see one or the both of us, please say hi!
I’m up late-ish for some unknown reason and found myself catching up on my feeds. I read this one on Learning is Messy. A few useful tips if you’re going to be attending a conference for the first time. Well, even if you’re not new to conferences, I like the tips.
#1 - Unless you have to be there, spend as little time on the vendor floor as possible.
#2 – Make a schedule of all the sessions you want to see … then be ready to ignore it … or at least a lot of it.
#3 – Don’t be afraid to hang out and put your 2 cents in.
#4 – Bring a cheap plug strip.
#5 – Don’t stress … YOU ARE GOING TO MISS SOME COOL THINGS YOU WISH YOU HADN’T MISSED! It’s OK
Well, there was a lot more on each point on the site, so be sure to check it out. But to these tips, I add…
- If you DO plan on browsing the vendor area, bring labels with your contact info so you can stick those to all of those cards for drawings and door prizes. I do tend to walk the floor but mostly because I seem to win something every year Yay me! And I’m a wee bit on the greedy side. But Brian is absolutely right about taking home junk you don’t need or want. I’m in the process of changing schools and while organizing, I found two bags of past TCEA years that were left untouched. Geez.
- If you’re a blogger, consider live blogging the sessions and keynotes you attend. It serves two purposes - 1. you’re taking notes that you can reflect on later and 2. others who can’t attend those sessions can be a part of it virtually. Even if you read a live blogged session later, the live blog feel gives you a bit of a sense of being there. Helen and I have used CoverItLive.com with success. Honestly, I haven’t tried any other live blogging software but we don’t get anything from CoverItLive either. :) Anyway, you can tweet that you’re live blogging and others can “listen in” and comment or question while you’re taking notes. Very cool!
Okay, so only two more suggestions. It’s late-ish and I’m tired. See you at NECC! I hope!
Episode 44
photo credit: Thomas Hawk
Twitter Commentary in response to blog post by David Jakes (sorry–we’re a little long winded, but we just had to do it…). If you’re sick of hearing about Twitter, fast forward about 23 minutes. Hey… you were warned!
Resources
Newbie’s Guide to Twitter
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9697867-2.html
Good beginner’s guide for anyone new to Twitter from Rafe Needleman whose name Anna dubbed in later because she had a flub. It’s a terrible edit. Painful. We’re human.
Long Portraits
http://photojojo.com/content/photojojo-original/long-portrait-video
A quick and easy, but powerful example of digital storytelling. 30 second or less video of someone responding to a question. Great to take at the beginning of the year and then end of year, or from year to year, maybe with the same question each year, to watch the kids grow and change. Good for career days.
Artsonia
http://www.artsonia.com/
World’s Largest Children’s Art Museum
MooURL
http://www.moourl.com/
Web’s cutest URL shortening service. If you have a really loooong URL, just paste it in the text field, and they’ll milk it, creating a moourl for you. It lasts forever, It’s automatically copied to your clipboard, and It’s really cute.
We’re dropping our forums…but you can communicate with other edutechs:
- use Twitter
- use comments on episode notes
- use Diigo
- IM us
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 42 - Ha! Bet you didn’t think we’d be back that fast!
  photo credit: *Katch |
So we felt guilty about the lapse between episodes 40 and 41, so we’re following up 41 with 42-brief, but still full of the goodness you’ve come to expect! *uh…any extraneous noises may be Anna’s kids, but there really aren’t many–they did a great job and were quiet while we recorded! :-) {update by Anna: Let’s play “listen for the kids!” First person who hears them arguing in the background gets a free t-shirt!}
Shout Outs:
* @njtechteacher for Panwaba even though it was already on our list. Thanks for sharing ideas!
* @dmcordell for Student 2.0 site.
* @katiemorrow is a new follower and is a new blogger–go by and encourage her AND learn from her!
* @BarbInNebraska and @cnansen for helping us call out a plagiarizer!
* Our Twitter network for contributing links on search engines that we added to ours for our upcoming article (SLJ-available April 1st).
* btw…if you’re not on twitter yet, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?! What a great learning resource!
Resources
TweetMap
http://www.mytweetmap.com/
Twitter and Google Maps mashup that works as a Twitter client and allows you to see where your Friends’ tweets come from (thanks to @cnansen for sharing his students’ work).
TeachStrong
http://teachstrongnetwork.ning.com/
An online Professional Learning Community for educators interested in becoming stronger teachers through the use of digital technologies.
BeFunky
http://www.befunky.com/
Two free online applications which will allow users to create self-expressions. “Cartoonizer” re-creates images/videos by turning them into digital paintings, cartoons and comics. Uvatar (coming from avatar where u represents “You”) which helps to create an exact illustrated representation of its owner. We think the cartoonizer may be helpful for creating avatars for students to use to protect their identity.
Electronic Student Portfolios
http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic82.htm
Fairly comprehensive listing of URLs all about portfolios for teachers and students.
Diigo
http://www.diigo.com/
Bookmark and highlight the web. Add sticky notes. Access and search your findings from any PC or iPhone. Create groups to pool resources for specific projects.
Bonus song: Ctrl Z by Popple
Episode 39–TCEA Update
Episode 39
Notes from TCEA
- Wii Preso went well
- Kidspiration 3
- Twitter meet-up
- Notes from TEC-SIG Luncheon w/Hall Davidson and Technology Treasure Chest (no promises here, just what I could type while sitting in the preso :-D)
Links to share:
Tweet Scan
http://tweetscan.com
Search your tweets! Type in a timely topic and you’re likely to find several discussions and blogs about that story. Can be emailed daily, weekly, etc or RSS feed.
MixBook
http://www.mixbook.com
Online photobook creator which can use photos from flickr, yahoo, facebook, etc. Projects can be collaborative and published online and/or purchased for print.
jUploadr
http://juploadr.org/
Cross platform, cross-site photo uploader. Can edit properties of images before you upload to Flickr or Zoomr.
The Rasterbator
http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
Creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. Upload an image, print the resulting multi-page pdf file and assemble the pages into extremely cool looking poster up to 20 meters in size. Online tool and downloadable (Windows only) tool.
50 free fellowships to study Lincoln
https://www.horacemann.com/resources/fellowships/default.aspx
Horace Mann is making 50 fellowships available to study Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Library in Springfield, Illinois this summer. All travel is paid and no special knowledge of Lincoln is required. Open to all teachers.
Reach Every Child
http://www.reacheverychild.com
Educational resources for teachers and students. It includes lesson plans to make reaching students and using technology easier.
Google Forms
http://docs.google.com
Create and share an entry form with others for collecting information without giving them full access to the spreadsheet itself. Also users don’t necessarily need a gmail account.
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