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Brain Rules for Teachers and Presenters

01/22/2010 | 1 Comment |

Hat tip to Miguel for bringing this to my attention.

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Animoto Does Even More

10/06/2009 | 1 Comment |

I’ve been a fan of Animoto ever since @kconger introduced it to me about a year and a half ago. I’ve used it to make fun videos for friends and family and for end-of-event presentations for things like a conference we hosted and for church camp. I even got the 10 free bumper stickers back when they were offered.

The Animoto Video Contest finalists and winner have just been announced. Wow, folks are doing some really “cool” things with Animoto. I knew that I could now upload and add video into my Animoto files, but I haven’t gotten around to actually trying it. I’m not sure that I would have thought to be as creative as these folks, though. Take a look at the contest page and see if you aren’t inspired. I’m hoping students will begin using this to complete some of their assignments, too.

Animoto Logo

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Photos from Washington, D.C.

06/18/2009 | 1 Comment |

I spent some time working in Washington, D.C. in April and was able to go sightseeing for a few hours. Here are a few of my photos from the trip. Looking at these makes me excited about returning to Washington in a few weeks for EduBloggerCon and NECC.

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State Mottos

01/18/2009 | 1 Comment |

“The Fifty United States and Their Mottos” is a series of linoleum block prints by Emily Wick. Click on the image for a larger view. (Hat tip to Stephen.)

Educational Uses
This could be useful in a variety of ways in history, social studies, geography and government classes.

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Kwout Has Gotten Even Better

12/22/2008 | No Comments |

I’ve been using Kwout for a long time. It’s easy to use and useful in multiple ways.

It’s FREE!
It is a quick and easy way to capture images (grabs, screenshots, etc.) from the Internet.
It’s a simple strategy for citing images.
Your images are stored on the Kwout servers saving you the time and hassle of downloading the image and then uploading it to your own server, flickr or Picasa account, etc.
This (#4) also saves you a bit of storage space on your server.
Kwout generates and provide you with the HTML code so that you can easily embed your image and citation on your own website, blog, wiki, into a presentation, etc.
It is important that we model the necessity of acknowledging when we borrow the work of others – even beyond text. The use of Kwout could encourage students and other educators to integrate citations into their common practices.

Well, the unthinkable has happened. Kwout has been largely updated and it has gotten even better. Woohoo! Kwout has added support for…

Video comments.
Greasemonkey providing the opportunities to integrate it with Twitter, Jaiku, and more.
Tumblr (Context Sensitive Kwout).
FriendFeed.
Pixlr

I encourage you to take Kwout for a test drive. I believe you will also find it easy and useful.

kwout | A brilliant way to quote via kwout

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Fun with Spelling

09/30/2008 | No Comments |

Here’s a spelling activity that I’ve never seen before. I thought it was fun and innovative and wanted to share it. (Hat tip to Tom Barrett)

What are some ways that this activity could be extended?

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This Morning at EBC

06/28/2008 | No Comments |

I’ll be updating this post throughout the day to alert you of things happening here at EBC San Antonio. The full list of sessions is here. I’ll be sharing information form the sessions that I’m attending. The session titles are in bold.

Social Networking for Professional Development

Scott Merrick is sitting next to me and streaming this discussion live.

Should it be organized or self-forming?

Should the tool(s) be dictated?

An atmosphere promoting risk-taking is imperative.
Teachers know what they want to learn. Professional development should be tailored around them rather requiring them to attend PD in which they had no say.

Social Networking in the Classroom

Vicki Davis is sitting by me and is streaming this seession here.

Teachers in the room are using Ning, Elgg, and several private online communities.
Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis updated us about the Flat Classroom and the Horizon Project.
How important are digital citizenship and pedagogy in these decisions?
If someone says a curse word in the classroom do we close the school? If there’s a fight at recess do we quit having recess? Why do we over react to these problems in online spaces?

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Notes from Clif

06/22/2008 | No Comments |

I’ve made some additions to the blog. Take a look and let me know what you think, please.

You can view the newly added photo album by clicking on the corresponding link in the Blog Navigation menu.
I’m currently developing my consulting and contact pages (HELP!).
Several new resources are available under the Clif’s Resources menu including: a free subscription to my educational technology email newsletter, access to my Google Reader Shared Items, and my Pageflakes and Twine profiles which are likely to become quite active during EduBloggerCon, NECC, and Teaching and Learning with Web 2.0.
A lot is happening at Clif’s Wiki, too.
Of course, the blog’s entire theme has been under development for about 3 weeks, now.