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Here is a short promo video my computer club put together for our bi-weekly news show. Not terribly clever… we took the idea from the newest run of Geico commercials. I took our narrator’s audio into audacity and dropped in a few octaves for effect. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ We recorded just a random patch of sky behind the […]
Continue ReadingJust passing this along… something I picked up off one of my twitter friends about another list of the top ten web2.0 tools out there. http://onlignment.com/2010/10/top-ten-tools-2010/ Many of these I am currently using or have used. Just broad casted my first news show of the new school year this morning. Still going through some confidentiality issues […]
Continue ReadingToday I taught an introduction lesson to the Paleolithic Age of early humans. I created a caveman type avatar at http://www.myavatareditor.com/ and imported the image into the program Crazytalk http://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/ . I then narrated/animated the avatar with a narration from some of the content I wanted to introduce to my students. To finish it off […]
Continue ReadingAs most of us are getting going with the new school year, we are always looking for neat ways to break the ice. I have tried many different activities and some are better than others. I came across a neat website for the students to enter their birth dates and it gives them a brief […]
Continue ReadingAs a Language Arts teacher, I am always looking for ways to help my students proofread and revise their writing. One of the most simple ways to do this is to have a student read their paper aloud to themselves and listen to what doesn’t sound “right”. This simple activity can help show inconsistencies in […]
Continue ReadingAs a teacher you are always trying to model good practice for students, especially when introducing a new concept. When it comes to technology there is always a spectrum of ability within your class and often times you have some students that can’t seem to keep up with your demonstration or read along with the […]
Continue ReadingI have two websites to share will all those art teachers and wanna be artists out there. We all know how useful it is have students draw and illustrate in our content areas. The first resource is http://www.imaginationcubed.com/ which is a drawing site where you can literally draw on the computer using either a mouse or some […]
Continue ReadingFor those of you have officially seen too many PowerPoint presentations from a colleague or a student… or your self, there is help out there! There is no disputing that PowerPoint is the most used and viewed presentation software out there, but if you are like me, you want something different. The Microsoft Labs created a […]
Continue ReadingIf you are like me, you are constantly battling your students to get information out of them in terms of sharing their thoughts and ideas. However, if you checked their cell phones or their Facebook accounts, you would probably find out they have lots of thoughts and are not as “shy” as they appear in […]
Continue ReadingFor those looking for a great relatively cheap software program to add some spice to your lesson or projects, check out a program called Crazy Talk 6. You can get it at http://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/ If you do some searching around you can get a cheaper education discount. I have used this program to have Abe Lincoln […]
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