November, 2008

Late Night Reading

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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.

Johnny Lee & TED + Video Responses

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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.

The Best of the Free

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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

Comparative Media Studies

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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:
Project New Media Literacies [...]

Reordering Questions In Google Forms

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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, [...]

Wii Remote Multi-Touch Whiteboard: Parts Ordered

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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: We’re going [...]

Shift Happens

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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.)

Spell Checking Progress Reports

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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 [...]

What I do & The 21st Century Learner

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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 I [...]

Wii Remote Smartboards

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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 how he [...]

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