Screencast-O-Matic Amazing and free! This ought to make a lot of people happy and I like the social aspect of free hosting/sharing of screencast. The whole deal is a pretty neat trick using Java. Screencast-O-Matic is the free and easy way to create a video recording of your screen (aka screencast) and upload it for […]
Whirligig MyMap Evolution Continues
So I’ve added a lot more to the Whirligig map since last time. It turned out to be an awesome choice for this project. Talk about a project that requires a close reading! I spent more time with this short book than I care to admit to. Almost everything in the Whirligig was accurate. It’s […]
What Education Should Be Like
IMG_5978.JPG Originally uploaded by woodward98 Two semi-philosophical posts in a row. I’m very sorry. I’ll get back on track soon, I promise. I took this picture of my son a while back. We found what a Flickr commenter tells me is a luna moth caterpillar. To me it embodies everything education should be. It was […]
Yet Another Reason Your Filter is Useless (or neat trick to post to jaiku, wordpress or twitter)
The first part of this post is actually useful. The second part is just me venting about the wrong application of time and energy that is, all too often, school filtering. So I started using Jaiku (like Twitter but with the ability to aggregate all your feeds and a few other neat tricks). Jaiku was […]
Seal Generator
Click and create official looking seals (no bad puns please) of various sorts. It’s easy, quick and fun. You can also order them on magnets which could make for some fun games and ways to decorate your classroom (or house). You can have a lot of fun with this in History and English for sure. […]
Moving On…
I have some good news. I have accepted a job as a technology resource teacher in a local high school. I start in August, and I am so happy I’m bordering on giddy. The school is in the same county as Byrd (where Tom and I currently work), and Tom and I expect to collaborate […]
Google Maps Street View
Another pretty amazing option in Google Maps. You now have the “street view” option in addition to map, satellite and hybrid views. This view appears to be a real street level view of the city’s streets that you can advance incrementally (using the arrows you see). Talk about a great way to give your students […]
Flags and Pie Charts
This might be the visual link some students need to start seeing how pie charts reflect real data and it’s not a bad way to get some exposure to the flags of other nations. Basically, the pie chart is shown with the proportional slices for the colors of the flag. You click on the pie […]
Open Cola for Science Experiments
I saw a post on BoingBoing about the Open Cola project. To me it looks like the perfect combination of a science project and a way to delve into some health topics related to soft drinks. It’s probably a high school level project as some of the ingredients can burn skin (which is kind of […]
Copyright
I have some how found myself on our district’s copyright committee and we’re redesigning our whole course for teachers. It’s been pretty interesting and I only occasionally want to kill myself. Luckily, I’m with a bunch of ninja librarian copyright experts who are handling all the heavy lifting while I make jokes. The site is […]