Thanks to everyone who attended our presentation “Interactive Curriculum Resources to Super-Motivate Your Students” at NYSCATE on Monday. Here are the handouts. Apparently, the last page of the handouts didn’t get reproduced, which explains why some of the links that
Textbooks
I went to an interesting speech by the Director of the USDOE’s Office of Education Technology yesterday. In the presentation, he contrasted textbooks and Wikipedia as information resources. He said that textbooks have “authoritative content,” but face “distribution problems.” (
Great book
I have been reading a lot of books and research on differentiating instruction lately. Most of what I have read is interesting, but a bit academic, very oriented toward primary education, and lacking in technology-based ideas. The reason I’m interested
Text-to-speech blog-to-podcast tool
I just saw the Talkr tool on Will Richardson’s great blog. It takes the text from a blog and converts it to an audio file via text-to-speech. I can see all kinds of applications for this in education to help
Ripping CDs
If you are ripping CDs, you may find that software like iTunes or Windows Media Player puts your music in a format such as AAC (iTunes) or WMA (Windows Media Player), rather than the more univeral MP3 format. Here’s how
Differentiating instruction through mini-movies
I am more and more convinced of the potential of mini-movies to differentiate instruction by providing a variety of small mobile resources for learners to use when they need them. As posted previously, I’m experimenting with screencasting as a way
No time to sync!
Do you ever have one of those days when you just don’t have time to sync, and all you need to do is get one or two documents over to your desktop? I certainly have. Here are two tools that
I love technology
Wow….I am really getting into the potential of video and tools like screencasting to differentiate instruction. In my own work providing professional development for teachers, I struggle with how to differentiate my workshops. In most groups, some people like the
Audio blogging sites
As reported earlier, Audioblogger is discontinuing its wonderful service, and so we’ve been evaluating other similar services to see if there is a good replacement out there. So far, the winner is GabCast. Gabcast has a few features that I
Gabcast! Mobile Musings #1