Classrooms all over the world benefit from CSPAN broadcast of the Inaugural address



C-SPAN is a private, non-profit public service of the cable television industry. The use of webcasting and posting the video production to YouTube has created a global classroom for everyone. Their efforts allowed me to embed this historical event in my own blog.

How to set up a feedreader using Bloglines



This mini tutorial is a follow up to the live.conversations at www.classroom2.0.com
The Newbie topic for the week was what is a feedreader.
Here is a short video explanation describing how to set up a feed reader using Bloglines. Quicktime player required to view the movie.

Peggy’s Post



In connecting from one blog to another you can create a pingback. A ping back will help you build a network of bloggers as you share your ideas. In this case I have made a reference to Peggy’s post http://www.pgeorge.net/?p=76. in her blog at www.pgeorge.net.
A link to this blog post appears in “Recent comments” and as a comment to the actual post in Peggy’s blog. Take a look.

Live conversations at Classroom 2.0



Classroom 2.0 is well known for the collaboration between teachers and others around technology and teaching. Thanks to Steve Haragdon’s energy and vision you are now able to participate in live conversations - I like to think of them as mini- lessons - about using technology in the classroom.

This Saturday January 17th ( see here for times) the show will be about using Google forms to make things easier for teachers.

Tom Barrett’s blog post is the reading for the session.

If you have never participated in an Elluminate session, please watch this 5 min demonstration. Requires Java

Images4Education - learning experience



As part of my commitment to life long learning, I have signed up for a six-week online workshop offered through the Electronic Village Online, Exploring Images in the 21st Century Classroom.

I plan on using the classroomblogging.com site to record my experiences through out the workshop. It is a free and anyone can join. It is a packed class with over 180 participants but there is lots of room considering the workshop is online and self directed.

Here is a descriptor of the workshops.

You will be introduced to various online image manipulation tools and will learn how to effectively incorporate these resources into their teaching practices. You will explore how images can be used in educational settings for photo sharing, storytelling, slideshows and comics creation, as well as understand how Creative Commons licensing can be beneficial for classroom use. By the end of the workshop, you will have the chance to develop a plan to begin incorporating digital production into their lesson plans.

Reading the contributions from Berta, one of the participants in her blog post
about taggalaxy I made this image just for fun.
It was incredibly easy to create - I went to the web site www.tagglaxy.com entered a tag or term in the input field when prompted. (in this case I used the word parent). I then used Skitch Free and excellent screen capture application for Macs.

Uploaded just like any other picture to this blog post. It is a very impressive image.