Supporting Student Success in the 21st Century
Posted in Tutorials, Uncategorized on Apr 15th, 2008
I have previously created a set of instructions here explaining how to get started creating a blog. Feel free to print them off. I have come across another terrific resource. It is an excellent screen cast series of step by step instructions explaining how to set yourself up with a Blogger.com Blog.
Posted in Teacher resources, Tutorials, Ustream, Video, podcast on Mar 5th, 2008
It has been a while since I posted information here. I have been busy helping set up a webcast series called Parents as Partners. A webcast specifically for for parents and teachers at www.ourschool.ca and edtechtalk.com. It has been enlightening working with a group of committed volunteer webcasters. I signed up for webcastacademy.net to increase [...]
Posted in Tutorials, Voicethread, Wiki on Feb 3rd, 2008
Matt Montagne, University School of Milwuakee and Vinnie Vrotny, North Shore Country Day School, Winnetka, Illinois collaborate to support parents. Matt and Vinnie have setup this voice thread, wiki and Moodle to present a parent class on Web 2.0 technologies and how their children are using these tools. Connecting with parents is a focus of [...]
Posted in Teacher resources, Tutorials, Uncategorized, Ustream, Video on Jan 26th, 2008
Jeff Lebow has done it again
EdTechTalk broadcasting EduCon2.0 Science Academy Leadership conference.
The world of professional development is as close as your computer stage. No excuses about attendance and high cost of flights.
Posted in Teacher resources, Tutorials, Ustream, podcast on Jan 25th, 2008
As an intern in the class of 2.4 of Webcast Academy, I have entered a new world that I only dreamed about in 2001. Seven years ago I worked with educators, ICT experts and parents chairing a working group as part of the Ontario Knowledge Network for Learning - a Ontario Ministry of Education [...]
Posted in Teacher blogs, Tutorials, podcast on Dec 27th, 2007
I searched for teachers using podcasts in their classroom and found this example. Grade 5 classroom planning unit and a review of the steps taken to use podcasts in the classroom. The presentation is a slide show hosted free at Slide Share.
This is the website/blog
room33bedtimestories.blogspot.com used to publish the Grade 5 classroom podcasts [...]
Posted in Tutorials on Dec 17th, 2007
We all recognize the benefits of getting our message out using the Internet. Websites readily provide information to a large number of people saving time, money and resources. Unfortunately many people are forced to rely on web development companies or volunteer “computer techies” to create and manage a website to meet their needs. Consequently people [...]
Posted in Tutorials on Nov 22nd, 2007
link for creative commons music http://starfrosch.ch/about/
Posted in Tutorials on Nov 21st, 2007
Checklist of hardware and software
Before you actually begin to create your own podcast you will need access to the following:
1. A computer with software capable of:
a) capturing audio via a microphone and saving the audio to a hard disk;
b) editing the audio file and incorporating additional audio material;
c) compressing the audio file into MP3 format.
2. [...]
