Here's an example of an Animoto we made for our Student Teacher Workshop... do you know Animoto?
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
Might be Working
Dear Class,
I've observed some comments on my blog! This is not normally cause for celebration however, given the difficulty we had last Tuesday I am very pleased. I hope you've signed on to be notified of new posts to my blog (see the sign in thing in the right column). Leave comments and watch the Salman Kahn video.
As noted in an email sent earlier Monday I'll be available to meet at 4:00 on Tuesday the 20th in or outside room 200 Library.
Please blog any tech activities or news so I know you are still alive.
Dave
I've observed some comments on my blog! This is not normally cause for celebration however, given the difficulty we had last Tuesday I am very pleased. I hope you've signed on to be notified of new posts to my blog (see the sign in thing in the right column). Leave comments and watch the Salman Kahn video.
As noted in an email sent earlier Monday I'll be available to meet at 4:00 on Tuesday the 20th in or outside room 200 Library.
Please blog any tech activities or news so I know you are still alive.
Dave
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Internet Memes 101: A Guide to Online Wackiness - NYTimes.com
If you hope to keep up with kids you'd better read this article and click on the links. You may even be able to mention some references that students don't know about. Cultural literacy is cool.
Internet Memes 101: A Guide to Online Wackiness - NYTimes.com:
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Internet Memes 101: A Guide to Online Wackiness - NYTimes.com:
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Edublogs – education blogs for teachers, students and institutions
An alternative to Blogger... a place to blog specially designed for students and educators. Poke around and see the current contest that encourage student blogging across national boundaries. Let me know what you think.
Edublogs – education blogs for teachers, students and institutions:
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Edublogs – education blogs for teachers, students and institutions:
'via Blog this'
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Blog This! : Communicate - Google Chrome Help
If you use Google Chrome as your browser check out this addition to your tool bar. When you land on a web page you'd like to post to your blog just click on the button and it takes you automatically to a new bog post window already populated with the web page URL.
You may grow to hate that I discovered this tool ;-)
Blog This! : Communicate - Google Chrome Help:
'via Blog this'
You may grow to hate that I discovered this tool ;-)
Blog This! : Communicate - Google Chrome Help:
'via Blog this'
Google Doc from a student perspective
Found this in my Google Reader (check Reader out) box:
How I use Google Docs as a student
from Docs Blog by Google Docs
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Shep McAllister is a rising senior at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX, and editor of the popular student blog HackCollege. For the past several years, he has done his college coursework exclusively on Google Docs, and today he shares his five favorite uses for the platform in the classroom.
When I started out at Trinity University, I didn’t know much about Google Docs and relied heavily on desktop word processors. As I became increasingly frustrated with these programs crashing mid-sentence, I thought I’d give Google Docs a try. But what started as an experiment to test Google Docs for group projects and class notes quickly became a permanent solution for all of my schoolwork, and I haven’t looked back once. Here are a few of my favorite uses of Google Docs in college:
1. Work together on group projects
Before I started using Google Docs, group projects were a nightmare. A co-authored paper would fragment into a dozen different documents. Group presentations became last minute scrambles to get combine slides. Any information sharing about our project took place in splintered email threads. With Google Docs, my class groups are able work together on the same presentation or paper simultaneously while sharing links and ideas in a separate doc. The discussions feature released earlier this year made collaboration even simpler.
2. Take notes collaboratively
My classmates and I always get together near exam time to combine our notes and share ideas, so why not do it in real time? I work with friends to take in-class notes on a single Google doc, allowing everyone to come away with a more thorough set of notes than they could have written individually. I discuss this concept in more detail on my blog, HackCollege.
3. Convert PDFs and handouts to searchable text with Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
As a student, I get a lot of assigned reading as PDF files. Unfortunately, most of them are low-quality scans from the library, which makes it hard to search through them for keywords or make annotations. With Google Docs’ OCR capabilities, I’m able to upload a low-quality PDF and receive an editable text document in return. This also works well for any important handouts professors give out in class -- I just scan the handout and upload to Google Docs, keeping all of my class material in one place.
4. Save major assignments in the cloud
Writing important papers in Google Docs allows me to access my assignments and papers from any computer, anywhere. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been stuck in the library without my laptop, or only have my smartphone handy. With Google Docs, it doesn’t matter, because all of my assignments are stored in the cloud, meaning I don’t have to be tethered to my laptop to get work done. This saved my sanity (and GPA) during finals last semester, when my computer crashed and was out of commission for over a week. Luckily, there was no need to panic, because I knew my final papers and study guides were tucked safely in the Google Docs cloud, instead of my dying hard drive.
5. Collect information from a group with forms
Before I started using Google Docs, organizing my classmates for a group dinner or campus event was a nightmare. Now, I use Google Docs to create web forms to send to my friends and classmates. My friends have gotten involved too, using it for keeping track of club participation, voting on housing for their fraternity’s beach weekend, and even conducting surveys for major research projects.
Posted by: Shep McAllister, HackCollege.com Blogger & Trinity University Student
How I use Google Docs as a student
from Docs Blog by Google Docs
34 people liked this
Shep McAllister is a rising senior at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX, and editor of the popular student blog HackCollege. For the past several years, he has done his college coursework exclusively on Google Docs, and today he shares his five favorite uses for the platform in the classroom.
When I started out at Trinity University, I didn’t know much about Google Docs and relied heavily on desktop word processors. As I became increasingly frustrated with these programs crashing mid-sentence, I thought I’d give Google Docs a try. But what started as an experiment to test Google Docs for group projects and class notes quickly became a permanent solution for all of my schoolwork, and I haven’t looked back once. Here are a few of my favorite uses of Google Docs in college:
1. Work together on group projects
Before I started using Google Docs, group projects were a nightmare. A co-authored paper would fragment into a dozen different documents. Group presentations became last minute scrambles to get combine slides. Any information sharing about our project took place in splintered email threads. With Google Docs, my class groups are able work together on the same presentation or paper simultaneously while sharing links and ideas in a separate doc. The discussions feature released earlier this year made collaboration even simpler.
2. Take notes collaboratively
My classmates and I always get together near exam time to combine our notes and share ideas, so why not do it in real time? I work with friends to take in-class notes on a single Google doc, allowing everyone to come away with a more thorough set of notes than they could have written individually. I discuss this concept in more detail on my blog, HackCollege.
3. Convert PDFs and handouts to searchable text with Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
As a student, I get a lot of assigned reading as PDF files. Unfortunately, most of them are low-quality scans from the library, which makes it hard to search through them for keywords or make annotations. With Google Docs’ OCR capabilities, I’m able to upload a low-quality PDF and receive an editable text document in return. This also works well for any important handouts professors give out in class -- I just scan the handout and upload to Google Docs, keeping all of my class material in one place.
4. Save major assignments in the cloud
Writing important papers in Google Docs allows me to access my assignments and papers from any computer, anywhere. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been stuck in the library without my laptop, or only have my smartphone handy. With Google Docs, it doesn’t matter, because all of my assignments are stored in the cloud, meaning I don’t have to be tethered to my laptop to get work done. This saved my sanity (and GPA) during finals last semester, when my computer crashed and was out of commission for over a week. Luckily, there was no need to panic, because I knew my final papers and study guides were tucked safely in the Google Docs cloud, instead of my dying hard drive.
5. Collect information from a group with forms
Before I started using Google Docs, organizing my classmates for a group dinner or campus event was a nightmare. Now, I use Google Docs to create web forms to send to my friends and classmates. My friends have gotten involved too, using it for keeping track of club participation, voting on housing for their fraternity’s beach weekend, and even conducting surveys for major research projects.
Posted by: Shep McAllister, HackCollege.com Blogger & Trinity University Student
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com
Provocative article... what do you think?
Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com:
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Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com:
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