Week 8 Thing 20(Intro)

Week 8 Thing 20
Went to the Ning Classroom 2.0 link. Would this be good to use with parents? I’m wondering if this would be better than a blog or not as good as a blog? One link on livescribe was particularly interesting. This looks is the link so that I can come back and read on it. http://www.classroom20.com/forum/topics/livescribe-anyone-using-it

Week 8 Thing 19

Enjoyed looking over my Christmas vacation travels. Google Earth is a lot greener than the blizzard I experienced trying to drive through over Christmas. Really enjoyed the weather layer as I was able to compare the weather in CO to the weather in MT.
It would be neat to take a picture of Aspen Valley High School, come back to this link and add a picture of Aspen Valley High School http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BlecrkM7w4&eurl=http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorial_mapper.html
Help! I wanted to see the math link to the tsunamis but it appears broken. Anyone out there able to help? Thank you?

Week 8 Thing #18

Went to slide share and watched a The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs. This is a great one to see!! When I teach students to give a PowerPoint presentation, they always make them too long. I may share this with students as well as trying to apply it in my own presentations. Maybe I’ll go tweet about it. http://www.slideshare.net/cvgallo/the-presentation-secrets-of-steve-jobs-2609477
Here is an attempt at embedding it!

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs

View more presentations from Carmine Gallo.

Week 7 Thing #17 cont

Went to the EPN link and listened to the Drop Out Nation Podcast.
http://www.epnweb.org/player.php?podshow=http://rishawnbiddle.org/RRB/media/rbradio/_mp3/2/dpn_podcast_parentpower_12262009.mp3&podcast=Dropout Nation&program=The Dropout Nation Podcast: Giving Parents Power
It was on giving parents more power.

Week 7 Thing 17

Listened to the Wikipedia sample of podcasts at Learn out Loud. Went and searched for some podcasts. Downloaded a podcast of insane Canadian fisherman and listened to it on itunes. Both the download and the playing were successful. Successfully downloaded some "news" podcasts. I’ve gone and searched on two different days for math podcasts and am still looking for better material. Tried to download the recording of John Merrow on National Board Certified Teachers to itunes. It is downloaded but does not play. Would like to learn how to put podcasts onto a ipod. The link to Podcasting station currently mentioned that it couldn’t find the server

Week 7 Thing 16

I like to start my multimedia classes with a short youtube video clip. It is a fun way to start the class and it is an activity that student’s don’t’ like to miss. (It encourages them to be there for the start of class). Sometimes I take role on another computer while the clip is showing. While I occasionally show an interesting clip, like this or
I prefer to find motivational clips, like this

Week 6 Thing 15

Windows Movie Maker is awesome! I was a little tentative when making the movie in the class. I took a video of my room and it worked fine. To keep up on it I was taking random video and took a video of a car fire during the Thanksgiving Holiday. It downloaded onto my computer but I was unsuccessful on several attempts at getting it imported into Movie Maker. I tried changing the file options, clicking and dragging, copying and pasting and the import option. I ended up using some video that a student asked me to look at. I tried to delete part of it but it shows up on the final product. In addition, the music didn’t work correctly for me so I will want to revisit this and try to figure out the reason. Interestingly, the title feature worked great. Movie Maker is worth revisiting and getting the problems ironed out because my multimedia students will love this!!

Week 6 Thing 14

On Voice Thread the hustle was a nostalgic blast. Here is the link which includes my typed comment. http://voicethread.com/#q+hustle.b67958.i350012 It got me to thinking about how to use this with my students. . Recently one of my students went around the school and interviewed students on sexism. It would be interesting to post it on voicethread. The challenge would be posting the pictures of kids and the copyright on the must. (The hustle song left me wondering about the copyright)