Education and technology are fast-changing, dynamic spaces, and personal learning needs are at a all-time high. But with school budgets being tight and release days being scarce, it’s difficult to attend traditional conferences or other professional development events. Enter personal
Great video math content for mobiles
Looking for great free video content for your mobile devices? Sal Kahn has built a tremendous collection of over 1800 open-licensed videos offering instruction in math and science. They cover topics in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, statistics calculus, and more. These
New free resources
Here are two series of social studies vocabulary videos that are available for free download. These are good for use with ELL students or others who need extra vocabulary support. The videos can be downloaded onto mobile video players for
Podcasting compilations
For anyone presenting about podcasting or just trying to show some of the possible uses in education, here is the “fastest 5 minutes in podcasting” clips I use. Note that each clip is only a small snippet of the actual
Phonecasting and plagiarism
One of the challenges of Web 2.0 apps is that there are frequent changes to the business models, often resulting in services that were originally free going to a pay-per model or sometimes going away altogether. I understand that everyone
Building blocks for multimedia creation
There are so many great open resources that teachers can use legally in creating multimedia projects (reports, PPTs, web pages, wikis, etc.) with their students, but they take a lot of time to find and correlate. As a part of
Blocking problem
It’s surprising to me that in 2010, there are still big districts that are blocking all Web 2.0 apps — wikis, blogs, etc. These are some of the most powerful tools we have for differentiating instruction. I have to think
iTunes import settings
I noticed recently that when I updated my iTunes software, it reverted my import settings back to AAC. Not very nice of it. (As background, AAC is the default audio setting on iTunes. It works great with iTunes or an
Open-licensed music for your multimedia projects
Engaging your students in creating standards-based projects is a great way to differentiate instruction. But what to do when your students want to rip their favorite CDs to include music in their project? If you are posting the work online,
Blogging and Web 2.0 in schools
Blogging in schools is a great way not only to convey information, but to engage students in learning. Some of the ways teachers use blogs with students are to give writing prompts, have students respond to reading, do formative assessment,