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 …
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Annoy-Ning
I know, I know, that title is a horrible pun. Still, it does do a good job of summarizing this posting. It should be no surprise to those of you who’ve been following this blog that I’ve been dabbling in ed-tech groups. I still attend the occasional DEN event,and I’m an off and on contributer …
Woohoo!
Just got this in the mail – it’s happy dance time. Congratulations! Â Your proposal has been accepted for the MICCA 2007 “MICCA Goes Platinum” conference. Â The program committee reviewed many applications, looking for presentations that would allow all participants an opportunity to learn more about educational computing. Â Your presentation met all of our criteria and …
Any Elgg Experts in the house?
I’m playing with a copy of Elgg to see if it’s better suited for Teachers 2.0 than the current Drupal setup. Through trial and error I’ve gotten through most of the errors I encountered when installiing the thing, but I still have one more that keeps popping up on the top of each page. Anyone …
PETE&C Preview
This is just a short video to tell you that good things are on their way. Download the mp4 movie Download the audio only
It’s alive! IT’S ALIIIIIIVE!!
After much panic and several emails exchanged with tech support, Academic Aesthetic is back in business … more or less. There’s a bit of housecleaning left to do, but other than that I’m good to go. You see, THIS is why regular backups are important. :)
New kid on the blog
After much badgering on my part, Rachel now has a new blog. Why don’t you check it out and say hi?
Hear ye! Hear ye!
(Taken from Dangerously Irrelevant) All education bloggers are hereby invited and encouraged to… complete the short and completely unscientific, but hopefully interesting, education blogosphere survey; forward the URL of said survey to all other known education bloggers to ensure decent representation of the education blogosphere; and publicize said survey URL on their own blogs to …
Academic Aesthetic Netcast 120b
No real show this week, just me singing poorly while I wish you a Merry Christmas. No, really – this cold of mine has my singing voice shot. …Not that it was any good to begin with… … I’ll stop talking, now.
Academic Aesthetic Netcast 119
This longer than normal ‘cast starts off as more or less a summary of my last blog post, but then I get into something entirely new – a new online education community! Links Mentioned: Technology Education Network (Name is a work in progress) Drupal, Mambo, and Plone Art Club Netcast Chris Craft‘s many, many web …