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)

Week 5 Thing 13

I have been playing in Google docs. I like the idea of sharing the creation of documents. It would be good for committee work or collaboration between teams. I think it would be really great for teams of online learners or home schoolers.

Week 5: Thing 12

Looking through these wiki’s I was awed by the design and artistic ability. Where does a math teacher start? Definitely I’ll be looking for some design and artistic ideas. On the Albany site, the flick link is missing. This surprised me and I wondered why? Here is the link to my wiki. http://mrsvandyken.pbworks.com/FrontPage It is a work in progress. I also went and played in the D-20 sandbox. The numbers to the things are incorrect because I missed the tweet entry. I'll get it corrected.

Week 4: Thing 10 and Thing 11

I started an accound on Delicious. I was very intereseted in the tag cloud and wanted to make a couple of large clouds with a new printer at our school. I tried to create a tag cloud with Euclid’s elements but it isn’t downloading correctly. Next I will try something else. Found several tag clouds that I liked. Ended up making a couple of clouds with the names of my puma students. I lost one that I liked so when I got another one, I saved it via print screen and made a jpeg. I’ll try and add it to the blog.