This 2.4 MB video is more or less an ad for the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
Sound interesting? Check out their website!
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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 good time was had by all, and I collected enough photographs and movies for me to do several projects.
Sadly, the limits on a free Flickr account prevent me from posting everything there, but keep an eye right here and you’ll see everything soon enough.
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 few days I’m sure you’ll encounter more details.
As for myself, I took a bunch of pictures and videos. Some are uploaded already (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8), but I’m still working through the rest. One of our afternoon activities was to create a Google Earth sightseeing tour with our photos, and that’s exactly what I’m going to finish up before I try to wow you with anything.
My 59th podcast has me thinking about all the different conferences and events I’ll be going to over the next three months.
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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 – DEN Leadership Conference
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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.â€
(Herbie-Hancock)
(I also have a podcast that’s been brewing since Spring Break. No, really! I’ll have it recorded soon.)
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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 I do have a workaround. If you’re using Bloglines and you’d still like to see the extra things I throw into my feed (pictures and links), then simply subscribe to the goodies below. If you’re using a different RSS aggregator then don’t worry about it – you’re already seeing these things.
*Flickr Photos (RSS)
*Furl Links (RSS)
My 58th podcast is brought to you by some oatmeal, spring weather, and a glorious sunrise.
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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.
My 57th podcast touches on a theory about technology that is gaining strength among educators.
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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 about good design ideas and free alternatives here, but don’t get into it.
So where does this extra work come from? Is it because these teachers see “disruptive” technology heading their way? Maybe, but remember: Disruptive technology isn’t always a bad thing. Podcasts and blogs are disruptive, after all. (For more info, see what Wikipedia has to say about disruptive technology.)
It’s not the job of those preferring sustaining technology to change. It is our job as educators who prefer the disruptive technology to prove that the change is worth the effort.
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 view):
Zoomerang
Free!
zEducation package for $350/year
login with email account
Free service allows shorter surveys
100 survey responses
see results for 10 days
Sorts templates … differently. (Business, Community, Social, Education)
Add images by uploading gif or jpg format
SurveyMonkey
Free!
Pro subscription for $19.95/month OR $200/year
login with email account
100 survey responses
Have multiple pages
A variety of themes.
Add images if they’re already hosted by someone.
Taunts you with premium features.
Lists competitors
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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…