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Book Trailers and Video Scribe

Video Scribe is a fun to use animation app. You can create animated videos where the elements of the video are drawn in a white board animation style where a hand is seen on the screen drawing the text...

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Coding

At the previous school I worked at I taught AP Programming using C++ and Java. My last year there in 2007 I became aware of Scratch. I thought this was a programming language that would be accessible...

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On a Code.org Tear

Need to create a quick quote based poster? Quozio is your tool. You add: the quote the author a pre-created backdrops and you have your poster. Code.org has a page with a number of coding based quotes....

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Looking at Gamification For Next Semester

As many others I’ve been reading and wondering about gamification lately. I have added some game elements to my Moodle Math 8 course to see what my students thought.  As they are interested I started...

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Circles

Been an interesting little while. Posterous, a service I liked, is no more, fortunately I planned for that. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) My job has come full circle and the topics I introduced in 2008...

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Posting To Diigo

I am using my iPad a lot more to read about what is happening in my little world of interests. I use Diigo to bookmark with and I was not all that crazy about the workflow that I used to bookmark iPad...

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Adding Audio To a Scratch Project

Was working on a little demo for the grade 7 science class about a creating circulatory system animation using Scratch. I wanted to add audio to the project and as I can’t stand listening to myself...

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Planning For September

I’ve spent the year trying out flipped instruction with my Math 8 class. As the end of the year gets closer I am getting more comfortable with the direction I will go in next year. I am planning on...

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One Step Forward Two Steps Backwards

Hopefully all good things begin by failing. Took a while but I think I have an idea of how I will move forward with the Flexbook part of my September planning. After creating and archiving a number of...

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OSX System Audio

Was doing some planning for next year when I got sidetracked looking at OSX system audio. I plan on using screencasts as an assessment tool so I started playing with Quicktime Player to see what I...

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Things That Are Just Easier

I have started planning for my grade 6 tech course and one of the assessments I plan on using is a “How To” screencast. I have continued to look at Quicktime Player to see how it could be used in my...

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BrainGenie

Another one of the CK12.org tools I mentioned. BrainGenie via CK12.org There is no doubt that if you are looking at differentiation, flipping your classroom or just another classroom resource that this...

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Examview and Moodle

I created a short guide on how to use Examview created tests using Screensteps. I uploaded it to the school wiki but wanted to make sure all of my content was somewhere beside my computer and a wiki...

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Reclaiming Spaces

English: Moving Company employees load a moving trailer. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I have slowly started to move as much of my content as I can to one space. Why? Things seem are disappearing. This...

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Moving My Blogs

I started using a co-hosted server and my own domain six years ago. At that time I used it mainly for my blog. As time went on I used it to trial different web applications but, more and more, this...

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My Second Reclaim

First one was Posterous. More on that later. Ashes on my iPad and yes I get the Evernote irony. When Google got rid of gReader I thought of two things. Why did I switch to it a few years back? Why...

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10 Excellent Digital Citizenship Tips for Your Students and Kids ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning 10 Excellent Digital Citizenship Tips for Your Students and Kids http://t.co/hXH6UXeq5L...

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Image Resizing and More

As I get ready for next year I am looking at the skills my students will need and the different tools I want the student to use. One issue students have is working with resizing images and creating...

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Updating Guides

I have been updating my WordPress guides. One was on how to use gReader to read student created content on our blogging system. That needed to change! I changed it to show you could do this with...

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How to keep your Mac running in tip-top shape | MacFixIt – CNET Reviews How to keep your Mac running in tip-top shape http://t.co/mBGjfINRvl via @zite tags: via:packrati.us Two Socratics Labs startups...

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