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
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
NCCE Palm workshop follow-up
I enjoyed the enthusiasm of everyone who attended my Palm workshop yesterday. As promised, here is the Daylight Savings Time patch for Palms. We covered a lot, but there were so many things we didn’t get to also. Here are
Gabcast! Mobile Musings #7 Technorati Tags: ncce007 ncce2007 ncce07
There's a better way
In the business world, PowerPoint has become a staple, and in some cases, overused tool. No meeting is complete without a PowerPoint presentation. One of the most appropriate uses of PowerPoint, though, may be in the classroom. Like it or
Engaging kids
A study recently published by Indiana University found that the majority of high school students surveyed were bored by school because of lack of interaction with the teachers, boring material, and lack of relvance of the material. This is appalling,
Gabcast! Mobile Musings #6