Sheji Diigo 07/09/2009

• Robo Rush

  business game. Stay in business - selling robots.

  tags: business, education, game, robot, marketing

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Sheji Diigo 07/02/2009

• YackPack - Simply Connected

  voice communication tools for the web. place these tools within your course pages to allow voice contact within your class.

  tags: audio, collaboration, tools, messaging, voip, voice, social, education

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Preparing Images for the Web

Preparing Images for the Web

Where to find images

• Take them yourself
  
• Flickr
  
• Creative Commons Search
• The Commons Project (Library of Congress images)
  
• Edupic.net  http://edupic.net/index.html
• Clipart ETC http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/sitemap/sitemap.htm

How to prepare the images

• Crop and make it pretty
• Resize
• Usually under the Image menu
• Size depends on the application (WSM & ANGEL width max @ 500px)
  
• Format (jpg or gif or png)
• Width max (ANGEL and WSM) about 500px
• jpg for photos
• gif for clipart (transparency optional)
  
• png for transparency
  

What program will do this

• Plixr http://www.pixlr.com/app/
• Pheonix http://a.viary.com/tools/phoenix (registration required)
  
• Slashup http://www.splashup.com/splashup/
• Sumo Paint http://www.sumopaint.com/app/

Sheji Diigo 06/23/2009

• Action! Get the Cameras Rolling with Digital Storytelling | digitalstorytelling digital_storytelling video_production | Making Teachers Nerdy

  digital storytelling links and resources

  tags: digitalstorytelling, education, MrsSmoke, technology

• BabelWith.Me - Create a Conversation

  Chat tool that can translate conversations on the go. Chat up to 45 participants in variety of language. Powered by Google.

  tags: chat, translation, babel, language, translate, conversation, education

• EduPic Graphical Resource for Educators

  EduPic Graphical Resource is a teacher designed free image resource for use by teachers and students. All images contained within are free for use by educational professionals and the students they serve without permission. All other use is by permission only. All other rights are reserved.

  tags: Clipart, photos, edupic, science, graphics, education, images

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Sheji Diigo 06/20/2009

• SlideSix :: Multimedia Enabled Presentation Sharing

  Online presentation creation and sharing. Share your PowerPoint (PPT), OpenOffice (ODP), and Keynote presentations!

  tags: presentation, slideshow, powerpoint, sharing, slides, slidesix, education, video, audio

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Sheji Diigo 06/16/2009

• Livescribe :: Never Miss A Word

  Livescribe paper-based computing platform includes a smartpen, dot paper and software applications that changes the way people capture, use and share audio and visual information with pen and paper.

  tags: technology, pen, writing, tools, livescribe, education, notes, audio

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Sheji Diigo 06/09/2009

• Your Take

  A community/class driven step-by-step decision and argument web site. A compelling model for engaging students in a critical thinking project/series of events. Multiple perspectives are built in.

  tags: education, SCAN, decision, argument, issue, opinion, perspective

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Sheji Diigo 06/06/2009

• Pencil metaphor

  A quick simple metaphor for approach to change (in this case, tech).

  tags: technology, Metaphor, pencil, Education, teachers

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Experience and Education

I was reading Dewey's Experience & Education while traveling in Europe. And this read was immediately preceded by re-reading Watership Down. The two fit rather nicely together - rabbits all learning through their experience of finding a new place to live. There are many educators who seem to be returning to Dewey's statements - and I think they are right to do so. Bruce Hammonds writes a nice summary. And then this video surfaced:



I do enjoy these old videos. Not so much for the content necessarily. I find them interesting propaganda of the past that often never really succeeded (sometimes for good reason).

Sheji Diigo 06/02/2009

• Add Multimedia to Your Website with One Click – Apture.com

  include multiple formats and links in one embedded item in blog, webpage

  tags: multimedia, tools, blogging, media, blog, apture, widgets, education

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