My first mashup for the new year will feature podcasts by secondary students. If your middle school or high school students produce a podcast or if you have a favorite, post it here or drop me an email.
21st Century Explorer Podcast Competition for Students
In 2008, NASA will celebrate its 50th anniversary. This year’s 21st Century Explorer Podcast Competition asks students to consider the question “What do you think is NASA’s greatest exploration achievement in the past 50 years and why?” and to create
NCETC session materials
For those who requested them, here are the presentation materials from my sessions NCETC. Just for fun, I’ve used a few different slide sharing programs here, so you can compare and contrast; see notes below. Using Mobile Technology to Differentiate
NCETC Follow-up
Thanks to everyone who attended one of my many sessions at NCETC today! It was a good day. Here are a few follow-up items I said I’d post: Links to sources for free, open content here (I’m also presenting the
Mobile tech workshop
At NCETC yesterday, I facilitated the “Using Mobile Technology to Differentiate Instruction” workshop using a wiki. (This wiki is set up to be used to facilitate a F2F workshop, such as we did at NCETC, or to be used as
Free online workshop
Well, the workshop on “Using Mobile Technology to Differentiate Instruction” that I wrote about earlier is pretty well finished. I’m really happy with the content in it and think this is a great resource for schools using mobile tech and
Great inexpensive video cam for classrooms
Many of you have heard me rave about the inexpensive Flip camera. I love it because it is very easy to use, has surprisingly good quality, and has incredible battery life, in addition to costing as low as $100. Now
Differentiating Professional Development
In my on-going quest to differentiate instruction for teachers as a part of workshops I do, I’ve been experimenting with using blogs and wikis as PD tools. The latest installment in this is a hands on workshop on using mobile
Libraries are a great source for ebooks
Most public libraries have audio ebooks, and an increasing number are carrying electronic audio and text ebooks that you can download from a web site and use on mobile devices. I’ve been seeing many that have ebooks in the Mobipocket
Mini-movies for learning sight words
I’ve written before about the power of mini-movies to engage kids and teach core content with mobile technology. One use of this is for teaching sight words to beginning readers. Here’s an example: These videos are relatively easy to create