When I first saw this, I couldn’t wait to get one. Ok, I admit it — I love gadgets. This is pretty cute though. The Ultra Portable Personal Media Player is promoted as the “smallest functional media player in the
Writing…some research you might be able to use
I recently attended a presentation by Dr. Doug Reeves of the Center for Performance Assessment , known for the 90/90/90 research. One of Dr. Reeves’ points that really resonated with me was the identification of expository writing as a best
Using Technology to Differentiate Instruction
I’m in Hattiesburg, MS today at the USM Leadership Institute. We’re here talking about using technology to differentiate instruction for a wide variety of learners. The topics we’re exploring include ebooks, multimedia presentations, audio ebooks, podcasts, mini-movies, scaffolding, graphic organizers,
Mobile recorders
In my collection of gadgets, I have different kinds of standalone digital audio recorders that I use for various purposes (from recording notes to myself to recording portions of podcasts). A few of you have asked about some of these
Open Court Resources
If you use Open Court, you should check out the great site Open Court Resources. This site has some great PowerPoint presentations and other resources for grades K-6 and for both the “new” and “old” OCR. We’ve had some very
More Open Source Curriculum resources
There are two more new free, Open Source curriculum content resources coming on line: Schools Without Limts OER Commons As these repositories get fleshed out, look for an upcoming review in my blog. In the meantime, if you have a
Movie from our podcasting workshop
Here’s a short movie that shows some of what participants did during our podcasting workshop this week. I could only include a few examples here, but everyone did great work! – WMV version for Windows – MP4 version for Mac
Final thoughts on NCCE 2007
Well, NCCE was a great conference this year as always. I consistently find the sessions at this conference to be a step ahead of most other conferences. I’m on the plane on my way home now, and here are a
Ed podcast mashup
New versions of the first ed pdocast mashup are up for video (WMV and MP4). Also the audio file is fixed now. ——————– Technorati Tags: ncce007 ncce2007 ncce07
Free Multimedia Resources You Can Use to Differentiate Instruction
Here are the materials from my session on Fri. at NCCE: Free resources handouts ——————– Technorati Tags: ncce007 ncce2007 ncce07