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The golden episode…yup #50!
Episode 50-Links that make us think…
Resources
- Jeopardy Labs - Allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world.
- TikaTok – Imagine a story, create a book.
- Kinetic City – Amazing collection of games, science experiments, and projects. Beat the bugs and set things right.
- JayCut – Online video editing.
- Edmodo – Edmodo is a private microblogging platform that teachers and students can use to send notes, links, files, alerts, assignments, and events to each other.
- All About Explorers – All About Explorers was developed by a group of teachers as a means of teaching students about the Internet. Because we wanted to make a point about finding useless information even in a site which looked at first to be fairly well put together, all of the Explorer biographies here are fictional. While many of the facts are true or based on truth, many inaccuracies, lies, and even downright absurdity are mixed in indiscriminately. As such, it is important that you do not use this site as a source of reference for your own research! Follow @explorers on Twitter.
- In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update – NY Times article about how the job of librarians is changing in the digital age.
Faves
- Mancala FS5 ($FREE) – strategic thinking board game gone global (website).
- ABC Animals ($2.99) – ABC Animals provides a wonderful set of interactive flashcards that aid in teaching young children to recognize, say and print English alphabet letters (website).
Episode 45 – In the Can!
Helen’s fault we haven’t podcast. On the road again! Anna has a broadband card! TinyURL DOES save your URLs forever, but MooURL is still cuter! And customizable. So there! Shout out to Region VIII in Mount Pleasant! Hi Melodie! Visit us at NECC! Make us a t-shirt! Check out Steven Katz’ Teach with Video book! WordWorld on PBS is SOOoOoOoOO cute! Spin & Spell is great for early literacy! Take a look at LookyBook! I learn technology from iLearnTechnology! Old news now, but we finally have Google Docs offline! Get the skinny on a zip code with ZipSkinny! If only I could see that web page, I know I’d recognize it! SearchMe!
Flip Video Day Two
My little Flip bubble started to deflate when iMovie ’08 wouldn’t play nice.I was also able to import with no help into iMovie HD and export for iMovie ’08 but that wasn’t really what I wanted. But thanks to a few twitter friends, I downloaded Pernian which let me use QuickTime Pro and convert the file. And then was pointed to an Automator application that did this for me. I could have used the Flip software to go straight to the web in a number of formats, but I really wanted to be sure that I could play nice in iMovie ’08.
I was doing all this playing with software, I forgot about the camera! So this afternoon I handed it to my eight year old showing her three buttons – on, record, and zoom. To say she had a good time is to say the sun’s surface is a little warm. She made 10 short, ridiculous videos. The quality isn’t horrible. Better than my digital point and shoot, I think. I’ll have to take video side by side to be sure. But I’m PRETTY sure. Now that she has 10 videos that she’s noticing she was paying little attention to where the camera was pointing, I have a feeling we’ll see some better work come from her. And I’m excited for it because she’s a creative little girl.
I don’t have high expectations for the Flip. It’s a nice, sturdy, cheap camera with cute accessories (feel free to buy me the underwater casing or the tripod, or even a skin). It’s very easy to copy videos to your computer. The software comes on the camera itself so you don’t actually need anything else unless you want to really edit. I may have over bought, like Bill. I bought the 60 minute and for what I plan to use it for, the 30 may have been plenty. If I were going to video one event longer than 30 minutes, I’d probably be using a “real” camera. But in regards to quality, I found this blog entry very interesting.
And with no further ado, here is one of Meghan’s movies, recorded on the Flip, converted with FlipConverter, imported into iMovie 08 in 16×9 aspect ratio and published to YouTube.
A PS to this post… I’m super excited about my daughter playing with this, because I want her to start doing things like this.
Update: This example was uploaded straight to YouTube from the Flip Video software:
Flip Video Review
I just, as in less than 30 minutes ago, received my Flip Video from Amazon.com. Here is my first video.
No, nothing worth watching at ALL. But gosh it was quick and easy. I could have published straight to YouTube (had it not been blocked in district) or a few other video sharing sites. Haven’t tried importing into iMovie yet. That’s next. So I guess this isn’t a review, just yet. More like a preview of a review. Stay tuned!
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.
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