Clif's Notes

Bookmarks for 03/17/2010

• Gajitz

  Great Gadgets, Strange Science & Technology with a Twist

  “Gajitz is as much an interactive archive of innovations past, present and futuristic as it is a collection of the latest and greatest gadget designs, sensational scientific discoveries and terrific new technologies … with a twist. The primary focus of this tech publication (read: blog) is on objects, finds anddesigns that defy particular typologies, wander away from convention and are more than merely consumable objects.”

  tags: Science, Math, Creativity

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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• Diigo Notes for 05/07/2009

Bookmarks for 03/11/2010

• Music Bakery

  Royalty Free Music Downloads & Royalty Free Music CD Buyout Production Music Libraries

  tags: Audio, Music, Podcasting, Copyright=Royalty-Free

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

• Bookmarks for 01/17/2010
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• Diigo Notes for 05/07/2009

Bookmarks for 03/09/2010

• National Lab Day

  An initiative to build local communities of support that will foster ongoing collaborations among volunteers, students and educators. Volunteers, university students, scientists, engineers, other STEM professionals and, more broadly, members of the community are working together with educators and students to bring discovery-based science experiences to students in grades K-12. When an educator posts a project, our system will help them get the resources needed to bring that project to fruition.

  tags: Math, Science, Network, Networking, PBL, Technology, Technology-Integration

• Hannah’s Homework Help Station

  Research Skills and Search Engines. FREE Presentations in PowerPoint format, Free Interactives and Games

  tags: Games, PowerPoint, Presentations, Research, Search, Free

• Greta’s Game Station

  FREE Games for Kids. Math, Science, Reading, Grammar, Art, Music, Social Studies, and more

  tags: Games, Math, Science, Reading, Art, Music, Social-Studies, Geography, Lesson-Plans, Resources, Free

• Pete’s Power Point Station

  Collection of FREE Presentations and Games in PowerPoint format for K-12 Teachers and Students

  tags: Games, PowerPoint, Presentations, Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Resources, Lesson-Plans, Teaching, Skills-Practice, Math, Social-Studies, Geography, Language-Arts, Science

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

• Bookmarks for 03/11/2010
• An Introduction to Presentations 2.0
• Diigo Notes for 05/07/2009
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Web 2.0 Technologies for Elementary and Middle School Classrooms

These are the slides for today’s presentation at the NCTIES Conference. Examples of how both teachers and students have used these tools are included. The full set of notes and resources from this session are available on the wiki. Thanks to everyone that attended, participated, tweeted, shared resources and ideas, etc.

• Multiple Representations of Understanding through Digital Media
• Multiple Representations of Understanding with Technology
• Planning District-Wide Technology Professional Development
• Day 2: MECA 2010

Multiple Representations of Understanding through Digital Media

I’m enjoying the North Carolina Technology in Education Society’s 2010 Conference in Raleigh, NC. I’m excited about being one of the featured speakers and having opportunities to work with and learn from classroom teachers, media specialists, administrators, and more.

Today I’ll be sharing a pre-conference workshop on Multiple Representations of Understanding through Digital Media. This energetic session will demonstrate that with freely available digital technologies students can demonstrate their understanding of course content in multiple ways (images, audio, video, presentations, artwork, and more). Each student’s end product (learning artifact) allows them to personally self-express their understanding/mastery of the content/skills. Although teachers may not be comfortable using all of today’s technology it is important to consider allowing students to use it to communicate their understanding as they are often more naturally able to more fully express themselves with digital media. The PowerPoint presentation is below and the full workshop notes are available on my wiki. Note that the links and logos in the PowerPoint presentation are clickable.

• Multiple Representations of Understanding with Technology
• NCTIES Conference
• Day 2: MECA 2010
• Games and Simulations in Education: A Resource List for Newbies

Professional Development Partnership with MASE

I taught a professional development workshop this afternoon in which we kicked-off an ongoing conversation about Instructional Design in the Digital Age. This was the first workshop in a two year project with the Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering — a 6th-12th grade charter school with a high school 1:1 laptop program. The primary goal of this on-going project is to enhance learning and increase student motivation throughout the school. Instructional design (data-driven decision making, lesson planning, team/ grade level/ departmental planning, curriculum mapping/ alignment, scope and sequencing, and more) and technology integration (especially free Web 2.0 tools) will be key components of the workshops and instructional coaching this spring semester and during the summer (I’ll share more about this in my next post).

I enjoyed the entire event. The faculty actively engaged in the discussions and activities and helped me better understand some of the ways that they’d like to grow and improve over the course of this project. The were friendly, respectful and receptive. Many expressed eagerness to learn particular technologies that they already desire to integrate in their classes.

I am PUMPED about beginning this partnership!

• Free Educational Technology Workshops
• Planning District-Wide Technology Professional Development
• Collaboration in a Web 2.0 World
• What Do You Want in Professional Development?

Publishing to AudioBoo from a Web Browser

Our kids and I have a lot of fun with AudioBoo. AudioBoo is a service that makes podcasting and audio blogging a snap and can positively impact your classroom (See previous posts1, 2, 3 and 4). Although the service has previously pretty much been limited to iPhone users it is now available to everyone. Here’s a screencast demonstrating how to use their recently released BrowserBoo feature which makes it possible to record to AudioBoo through any web browser.

Here’s the sample Boo that I created during the screencast above.

You can browse through my AudioBoo profile page to look through many other examples of boos that the kids and I have published.

I strongly encourage all teachers to take a look at AudioBoo. Whether or not you choose to use it as a teacher I believe there are students in your classroom that would enjoy using it and benefit from engaging this learning modality.

Sign-up for your AudioBoo account, friend me and other educators, and begin enjoying the valuable contributions this can bring you and your students.

• AudioBoo: Simple Podcasting from iPhone
• Creating an AudioBoo: A Quick Demonstration
• Bookmarks for 01/17/2010
• Kids Get Creative with AudioBoo

Free Apple Seminar for Educators

Reaching All Learners:
The event for forward-thinking education and IT leaders

Monday, February 8, 2010
9:00 AM – 2:30 PM
The University of Memphis, FedEx Institute of Technology

At this interactive event, you will have the opportunity to experience a digital learning environment first hand and see how Apple technologies can help you meet the diverse needs of today’s learners, including those with special education and language literacy needs.

Who Should Attend?
This event is designed to host leadership teams from your school district or private institution: Superintendents, Curriculum Supervisors, Board of Education members, Special Education Directors, Title I Directors, and Education Information Technology professionals.

Full details and registration is here.

• Interesting FREE Online Workshop
• Planning District-Wide Technology Professional Development
• Learning to Change – Changing to Learn
• Educational Technology Certificate

Bookmarks for 01/17/2010

• AudioBoo

  “Record and playback digital recordings up to 5 minutes long which can then be posted on” to your personal Audioboo profile page.

  You can record your “boos” by phone, with the iPhone app or through your web browser.

  AudioBoo is iTunes ready making it the easiest way to begin podcasting.

  tags: 2.0, Audio, Podcasting, Presentations, iPhone, mobile-technology, mobile-learning

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

• Publishing to AudioBoo from a Web Browser
• AudioBoo: Simple Podcasting from iPhone
• Bookmarks for 03/11/2010
• Creating an AudioBoo: A Quick Demonstration

Reply to Miguel Guhlin

THINKING OUT LOUD
Episode 006

Yesterday’s blog post by Miguel Guhlin (@mguhlin) caused me to think…and that caused me to want to share and think out loud…and now I’d really like to know how others respond…so…please read Miguel’s brief post about the Google Teacher Academy application process, then view my reply below and share your response.

I’d definitely appreciate it.

Please share your text/audio/video reply in the Comments section of this post or respond to the corresponding Seesmic conversation (Think video-based Twitter).

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