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| | Electronic voting... | | | | | Friday, May 18, 2007 11:21 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| Poetry Class is using podcasts to publish material |
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| Friday, April 27, 2007 1:14 PM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| [Image:soundrecorder0.zip] This software can be used to create your audio recordings or you can use firstclass. |
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| English class is using Flash software |
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| Friday, April 20, 2007 11:48 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| An english class is using Flash to create scenes from Othello. The faculty member has reported increased enthusiasm as a result of being to learn the material in this way. [Image:Flash_animations.jpg] |
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| Older units... |
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| Monday, April 16, 2007 4:57 PM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| Our older units are beginning (have been for a while) to show their age. More and more the oldest units come in for repairs. Take good care of the equipment and it is more likely to treat you to more reliable computing experiences. |
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| 'Are we using the laptops???' |
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| Wednesday, April 4, 2007 1:02 PM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| A middle school teacher reported, upon returning some laptops for a three week project, that the students were frequently inquiring as to whether they would be using the laptops that day. Their level of engagement was higher as a result of using the |
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| Assisted with video conversions... |
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| Wednesday, April 4, 2007 10:09 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| A student is designing a presentation on drinking and wanted to use some video footage in the presentation. Converted three .mp4 files to quicktime .mov format. Sent to student's computer all over the network to allow student to continue working. |
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| Online discussions about scientific topics... |
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| Monday, April 2, 2007 3:28 PM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| I had a lesson today on how to create a website and register with an online discussion forum about scientific concepts. Students are now (independently of classtime) perusing discussion topics and posting replies to topic conversations. |
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| At a conference on FirstClass... |
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| Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:30 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| Seeing a presentation by one of the founders of FirstClass, Scott Welch. http://www.firstclass.com/FC83/ [Image:firstclassconf_032707.jpg] |
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| Another set of videos about the risks of copying illegal songs |
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| Tuesday, March 20, 2007 7:02 PM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| http://www.cwu.edu/~its/property.html |
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| Forums are a posting |
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| Wednesday, March 14, 2007 12:32 PM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| Our scientist forum is a buzz with conversations. I see students logging into it during lunch. |
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| DST Update seems to have gone well... |
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| Sunday, March 11, 2007 9:23 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| I have checked Powerschool, FirstClass, laptops and handhelds thus far and all seem to have updated fine. The final test will be to see if I updated the bell system effectively. Fingers crossed. |
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| Interesting collection of educational resources... |
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| Wednesday, March 7, 2007 8:25 AM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| http://www.initini.com/glenview/ |
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| Dead scientists forum... |
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| Monday, March 5, 2007 1:50 PM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| Our 9th grade science teacher, Ms. Lourie, is going to try out our forums service for her class. The class will be choosing a scientist to impersonate in discussions and create a home page for them. The forums can be viewed here (only available int |
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| Spoof article but may not be so far fetched |
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| Friday, March 2, 2007 3:55 PM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| The creative writing class had an exercise in which students wrote spoof articles. Here is one with a technology focus - Thanks to Ms. Larkin for forwarding it on and thanks to Christiana Oatman for writing it. Midterms are a very stressful time fo |
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| RIAA is sending out presettlement letters to Universities... |
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| Thursday, March 1, 2007 9:12 AM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| The Recording Industry Association of America (http://www.riaa.com/about/default.asp) is sending out letters to Universities informing them that one or more of their students has been determined as a source of illegal downloading copyrighted material |
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| Acting Class Podcasts |
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| Friday, February 23, 2007 12:57 PM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| I will be working with the Acting class to put together a project using both blogs and podcasts. We will use the built-in capabilities of FirstClass and a little recording utility below. The faculty advisor for the project came by for an overview a |
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| Student using web to study Math |
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| Thursday, February 22, 2007 5:24 PM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| In a regular review of student computer activity - I noted a student using an online interactive tool to study mathematical formulas. This is self-motivated learning and the learning resource can adapt to the student's needs. Here is a screenshot: |
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| Student recording and web publishing... |
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| Thursday, February 22, 2007 2:10 PM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| Student records a performance at home. A student reported using her laptop to record a vocal performance on her laptop for a Music class. She recorded the vocals and instrumentals separately and then put them together on her laptop for the assignme |
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| Reaching the artist within... |
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| Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:47 PM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| I just watched a video on cnn.com which focused on a woman who has been labelled as autistic. When she is given a computer and a speech synthesizer she seems to be quite similar to those around her. I like to think that the computers/laptops can en |
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| Example blog uses |
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| Wednesday, February 21, 2007 3:18 PM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| http://extranet.oakarts.org/%7Etechnology/techblog/ http://extranet.oakarts.org/%7Etechnology/Le_blog/ - offline now http://extranet.oakarts.org/%7Etechnology/Musical_Blog/ - offline now Podcast example.. http://extranet.oakarts.org/~dsmith/FOV1-000 |
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