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DEN Event: Capture the Inner Harbor
On Saturday, April 29, 2006, Discovery Educator Network sponsored an event where educators converged on Baltimore’s Inner Harbor to capture it. … on film, of course! (I must warn you – this file’s 21.8 MB) Half of us learned how to make virtual tours with Google Earth, while others did the same using MovieMaker. A …
Capture the Harbor – First Impressions
Wow! Yesterday I joined roughly 50 other educators in the DEN challenge to Capture the Inner Harbor. Kudos go out to Rachel for organizing this spiffy event, although so many others helped that I really don’t remember all the names I would have to list. If you head over to Rachel’s blog in the next …
Academic Aesthetic Podcast 59 – DEN on the brain
My 59th podcast has me thinking about all the different conferences and events I’ll be going to over the next three months. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Show Notes: April 29 – Den Challenge: Capture the Inner Harbor May 3-4 – MICCA! May 20 – DEN event & Orioles game June 25-29 – Summer Regional DEN Event July 11-15 …
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Great Quote
Yanked from Presentation Zen: “A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not to dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.†(Herbie-Hancock) (I also have a podcast that’s been brewing since Spring …
RSS Shuffling
Due to reasons apparently beyond my control, those of you using Bloglines to subscribe to my feed have been getting the “plain vanilla” version. This is because I asked the good people at Bloglines to fix an unrelated bug, and in doing so they created this problem. Since then they’ve proved less than helpful, but …
Academic Aesthetic Podcast 58 – Bubblr
My 58th podcast is brought to you by some oatmeal, spring weather, and a glorious sunrise. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Show Notes: Don’t always assume that younger kids “won’t get it.” They can and will surprise you. Bubblr is now my favorite Flickr mash-up. Wow, this program is fun. You can see my sample comic here.
Academic Aesthetic Podcast 57 – Disruptive Laptops
My 57th podcast touches on a theory about technology that is gaining strength among educators. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- My school is handing out laptops to teachers, but not everyone’s excited. Why? Some say it’ll increase our workload. First things the laptops will most likely be used for: Grade Books Lesson Planning Presentations (PowerPoint) (I hint a bit …
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Academic Aesthetic Podcast 56 – Surveys
Today my 56th podcast is all about two different survey tools, Zoomerang and Survey Monkey. I’ll go over things in more detail in the podcast, but here’s some notes I wrote down when creating my surveys as well as an image of what the survey results look like side by side (click for a larger …
Would you like to take a survey?
I’m looking at different survey services for an upcoming podcast, and I could use some help. I’ve created two short surveys (less than 10 questions) that are more or less identical, and would appreciate it if you took one or both of them. Please? Pretty please? I’ll be your friend… SurveyMonkey Survey Zoomerang Survey