Yah, I should be sleeping, but instead I’m reading about: http://flatclassroomproject2008.wikispaces.com/ http://horizonproject2008.wikispaces.com/ http://digiteen2008.wikispaces.com/ http://www.nmc.org/publications/2008-horizon-report I’m too tired to fully summarize what I have been reading beyond these simple words: Way. Too. Cool.
Off course he gave a talk ;) Also, if you haven’t seen them already, I recommend checking out the video responses to his original YouTube post.
I just ran across these two sites and thought they were worth sharing: Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008 Web 2.0 in Education Software Directory
I just came across this blog post talking about Comparative Media Studies at MIT. From the blog post: The video list these skills as part of the New Media Literacies student will need to learn: Judgment, Negotiation, Appropriation, Play, Transmedia Navigation, Simulation, Collective Intelligence, Performance, Distributed Cognition, Visualization, Mulitaksing From their New Media Literacies Page: [...]
One issue that I have run into when using Google Forms is that reordering questions doesn’t always work as planned. I’ll be editing a form and I’ll add a new question. The question will be added to the end of the form but I want it to be higher up in the question order. So, [...]
After a bit of my own research and reading over some great info supplied by the five STJA students working on the project, I went head and ordered enough equipment to construct two Wii remote multi-touch whiteboards. Yay. 2 Wii Remotes: These items are rather key. ($39.98 each from antonline.com) Nyko Wii Remote Charing Station: [...]
This video surfaced over a year ago. If you haven’t seen it, I recommend watching it now. (The original version of this video is posted right here.)
As everyone is aware you are not able to spell check progress reports directly. Most of us have been resorting to writing our comments in a separate document, spell checking out work there, and then pasting the text into the form. This does work, but it’s clumsy and annoying, especially since there are lots of [...]
Last week I attended a two day technology conference run by November Learning. I took what I learned and piped it into a presentation I just gave to the Curriculum Committee. SJA Department Chairs: If you’d like me to give this presentation to your departments, let me know. I can give the general presentation or [...]
What we think of as a smartboard is simply a surface that tracks a writing tool. Traditional smartboard surfaces can easily cost $1,000+. What if you could track a writing tool for $50? Check out the video posted right here. The phenomenal Johnny Chung posted all the software he wrote along with detailed instructions on [...]