Here is another reminder to backup your files… in more than one location! As we move to an increasingly online community we have to be wise about these things!
Here is another reminder to backup your files… in more than one location! As we move to an increasingly online community we have to be wise about these things!
Several months ago I got a computer for my kids. I am techie and I want them to have the skills they need for the future, but protect them from some of the terrible stuff out there. After much research I came across this GREAT firefox extension called Glubble. At the time I liked the [...]
24 Jan, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Google| Student Tools| Teacher Tools
GoogleTutor posted a nice reminder tutorial online today about the power of real-time collaboration with Google Docs and Spreadsheets. This past semester a class I was taking wrote a nice paper as a whole class and used Google Docs for gathering everything together between us all. Nice.
24 Jan, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Read/Write Web| Social Web| Teacher Tools| Video
Michael Wesch posted notes from a presentation he just did about why we should use YouTube in the classroom that I found very useful. Topics he covers:
Legality of using YouTube video’s
Why we use them
Tips for finding good video’s
Ways to Download them locally
Tools for Remixing them
Ways to incorporate them into our teaching
Libby Evans, here on the UNC campus, has started sending out little tips to a instructional listserv I am a part of. The first one was great so I thought I would pass it on here!
During a PowerPoint presentation, you can press the letter B at anypoint and the screen will go blank.
This is really [...]
23 Jan, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Blogging| Teacher Tools
Oh this is just awesome! I just read about how an author, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, is using his blog to solicit feedback for a book he is publishing. Blog’s are really going mainstream when this happens.
Great idea though! One we have been using in education for a while… peer feedback. Of course a blog potentially [...]
I have been super excited about gOS as of late and installed if finally on my spare machine. It is snappy and honestly pretty nice. Anyway, I wanted to get Synergy working and though for a while there it wouldn’t… then I finally got it going. YEAH! Here is what I did!
Click on the desktop [...]
The Four Eyed Technologist posted a great post with links to all the “7 Things you Should Know About” series from Educause. I have know about these for a while, but hadn’t kept up on it! You should really bookmark this page for talking with Faculty and Staf
So there was been a lot of talk in the media lately about live blogging… CoverItLive seems to be a big player in this field.
What about the idea of LiveBlogging a class? Or perhaps having an assignment for students to liveblog something they are doing. It could be pretty sweet.
What do you think?
17 Jan, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Foreign Language| Student Tools| Teacher Tools
I am a foreign language guy by training, so anytime I see something about language training online I have to check it out. Well, yesterday I came across a new site called babbel.com. (via Lifehacker).
I set up my free account, and was practicing my German in about 30 seconds. It looks to teach you [...]