It’s been far too long since my last episode – Here’s the video version of some news that’s happened in the interim. I’m presenting at MICCA! Free Online Resources Wikki! (The handout for my MICCA presentation) Ning is less annoy-ning! My PowerBook’s mic works again! I don’t know why, but I’m not asking too many questions. Anime Studio is a fun animation program. Like Flash, but without the price tag.

Here’s the audio version of episode 127.  The video file will follow shortly.

My MICCA presentation this year is all about free sources for multimedia, something I know a bit about since I use visual aides so much in the classroom to help with my lessons.  Hey, as a visual art teacher I pretty much have to, right? Well, as I was writing down all of the sites I go to on a regular basis I had an idea.  What if I listed my favorite resources on a wiki?  Then my handouts would be online (thus saving a…Continue Reading “Free Online Resources Wiki”

I might have a snow day tomorrow, but I don’t want one. Why? Because I enjoy what I do too much to stay home! What do YOU do to make your classes fun?

I’m still playing with my digital video camera, but I’m including the audio for those of you who like to listen in the car. This time around I lament that I have too many books (yeah, you heard me), and why. It’s because the nature of the media has changed, but there are a lot of things that have changed along with it.

I’m sitting in Will Richardson’s breakout session and we’re asking him all kinds of questions.  I’ll fill this out more later, but why not check out his presentations’ wiki while you wait?

… well, actually a bit more than that. Today I brought my new toy into work, and just had to show it off to the media specialist. She liked what she saw, and liked the price tag (only $220!) even more. Just then, our Principal walked in with a smile on her face. She was in a good mood. Long story short, the Media Specialist and myself convinced our Principal to buy a digital video camera and a digital still camera for each grade level….Continue Reading “I cost my school $2000 dollars”