I have been asked many times how you can do “green screen” in Windows Movie Maker. (This technique, also known as chroma key, lets you import a background image, for example, the Taj Mahal, and then composite in video of
Flipshare conversion to WMV
I’ve reported here earlier about an easy way to convert Flip camera movies to WMV files so that you can import them into Windows Movie Maker. Imagine my surprise last week when several folks in a workshop I was facilitating
Auto-create Moodle glossaries!
(cross-posted from K12 Open Ed) Moodle glossaries are great, and there are so many ways to use them. Content can include everything from vocabulary to FAQs to fact-of-the-day to picture story starters. You can build them yourself as a teacher
The engagement gap: listening to student voices
“Engaging the Voices of Students: A Report on the 2007 & 2008 High School Survey of Student Engagement” from the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University is an important piece of research that I think everyone in
New open educational resources project
Many of you know that I have gotten very involved in the area of open educational resources (OER) as a tool for differentiating instruction. If you aren’t familiar, OER are materials used for teaching and learning that are free from
Flip tip
A while back, I wrote about a way to convert the MP4s that the new Flip cameras create into WMV files, so that they are able to be imported into Windows Movie Maker. If you have an HD camera, though,
Learning through lurking
On Twitter tonight, Dean Shareski reported “Push back from one participant. ‘Social learning is only good [for] some students. Many prefer to learn in isolation’ How would you respond?” My quick response was “You don’t have to be ‘social’ to
ISTE is asking for input on next year’s keynote
ISTE 2010 (formerly NECC) is using a collaborative process to choose the keynote topic for next year’s conference. Imagine my delight at seeing Open Educational Resources (OER) near the top of the list! For those of you who don’t know
WG announces new Palm device
For users of Wireless Generation‘s series of handheld assessment tools (mCLASS®, DIBELS®, TPRI®, et al), the company has announced that it will be selling a new private-label Palm OS device available at some future date, only through Wireless Generation. They
Is your school technology rich?
Project RED is a national research and advocacy initiative to revolutionize the way the U.S. looks at technology as part of teaching and learning. This non-profit aims to: identify successful ed tech implementations; build a model of costs, cost savings,