Looking for your input

Ceara McCurdy, a researcher at the University of Dundee in Scotland, asked me to share her exciting new project with you. She is trying to encourage teachers to use movies, mash-ups and video editing in the classroom (mainly ages 7-11). so that students will have skills they need to create content for YouTube etc. It is a natural for a creative outlet for students as well as a vital tool for presenting themselves online.

Ceara has a website started for her project Called Spoonfulofmovies http://www.cearanissa.com/spoonfulofmovies/ It is in the development stage and she is looking for your input and ideas. Of course there are already some good resources and ideas you can use. Storyboards and question prompts for your students to use in creating videos.
Take a look.

Mash-Up One from Ceara McCurdy on Vimeo.

Classroom Blogging Workshop at Elearning center

If you missed Kim and Lorna’s Elearning Center’s Blogging for Beginners webinar on March 31, 2010, you can still get a chance to create your own blog using Weebly. On Wednesday April 7, 2010 at 7:00 PM EST (GMT-4) we will be running a second blogging workshop and we will also be talking about using blogs in the classroom. Time Zone Converter. Participants in the session will receive a 25% discount on a Weebly pro account.

Please join us by following this link to the session held in the Learn Central Elluminate room.

In this session you will get an overview of how to use Weebly to create a website and Blog for free. Weebly is a great out of the box solution with free hosting and no ads. The drop and drag solution gets you up and running in a a few min. The participants in our session had a web site and had started blogging by the end of the hour. With Weebly you can use images, video and audio, contact form, discussion forums along with polling and other great features.

This screenshot illustrates one of the out of the box professional looking themes. Click the image to enlarge.

If you can’t make it to the session, please feel free to watch the recorded session.

Classroom 2.0 Live announces iTunesU channel

Simple steps to subscribe

Classroom 20 Live and Earth Cast 2010

The recorded show for March 27, 2010 featured Earthcast 2010.

Looking for a good Earth day Project?

Thursday April 22, 2010 we celebrate Earth day – a day to focus on global issues and protecting the environment. If you are looking for a way to engage the people in your community and school, please take a look at this initiative being led by a global group of educators at www.earthbridges.net. On Earth day people all over the world participate in a 24 hour webcastathon. Here is the wiki document set up to explain how to participate. Can you spare 30 min on April 22, 2010 to share your Earth day activities?

You do not have to know how to webcast or podcast to participate. The Earthcast team will help you share your ideas through out the day. The Classroom 2.0 Live webcast on Saturday March 27, 2010 featured the Earthcast 2010 team who shared highlights from previous Earthcastathons. This Voicethread was used during the web cast to highlight events from earlier Earthcasts. Past shows are posted as audio clips and you can hear them by playing the player. Flash player is required to watch.

A post on earthbridges features
Mark Ahlness and this Earth Day Groceries Project

The Earth Day Groceries Project is a cost-free environmental awareness project in which students decorate paper grocery bags with environmental messages for Earth Day. One of the oldest and largest educational projects on the Internet, the Earth Day Groceries Project is managed online by Mark Ahlness, a third grade teacher at Arbor Heights Elementary School in Seattle, Washington.

(This activity is also open to organizations other than schools. Cub Scout troops, environmental camps, after school programs, and many others have joined in before. All are welcome!)

* 4 Simple Steps: Borrow, Decorate, Deliver, Report

To get more information about this project and view a Flickr slideshow of photos submitted by last year’s participants: http://www.earthdaybags.org/

http://www.flickr.com/groups/1040740@N25/pool/show/

Sharing your own ideas about your Earth day events is easy. Type a comment or record an audio or video comment on this voicethread. You will join with people across the globe explaining how they will celebrate Earth day.

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