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...
View ArticleCoding
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...
View ArticleOn 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....
View ArticleLooking 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...
View ArticleCircles
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...
View ArticlePosting 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...
View ArticleAdding 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...
View ArticlePlanning 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...
View ArticleOne 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...
View ArticleOSX 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...
View ArticleThings 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...
View ArticleBrainGenie
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...
View ArticleExamview 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...
View ArticleReclaiming 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...
View ArticleMoving 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...
View ArticleMy 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...
View ArticleThis Week On Diigo (weekly)
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...
View ArticleImage 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...
View ArticleUpdating 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...
View ArticleThis Week On Diigo (weekly)
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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