Did you think there was no hope for PhotoShop users and netbooks? Check out Aviary, an online video and audio editing application.
Today I'm going to make a Bus Ride, A guided tour through the internet. My learning lab kids are making an ugly powerpoint slide and they need some help. To see what a "Bus Ride" is, go here
Students in my learning lab are creating ugly PowerPoint slides. This idea was an assignment from Dr. Kuon from Sam Houston State University for a class on library media production. Here is some advice on what NOT to do in a PowerPoint presentation.
"Google News Timeline is a web application that organizes information chronologically. It allows users to view news and other data sources on a zoomable, graphical timeline. You can navigate through time by dragging the timeline, setting the "granularity" to weeks, months, years, or decades, or just including a time period in your query (ie. "1977").http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/
"Google Squared is an experimental tool that takes a category (like US presidents, roller coasters, or digital cameras) and attempts to create a starter "square" of information, automatically fetching and organizing facts from across the web. You can modify your square by removing rows and columns you don't like--or by adding new rows and columns and having Google Squared attempt to fetch the relevant facts. Verify and correct the facts in your square by exploring the original sources and investigating other possible values. If you're happy with your square you can save it and come back to it later. Google Squared does the grunt work for you, making research fast and easy."
"The "In Quotes" feature allows you to find quotes from stories linked from Google News. While many stories rely on a journalist's interpretation of events, these quotations provide are a valuable resource for understanding where people in the news stand on various issues. Google News compiles these quotations from online news stories and sorts them into browsable groups based on who is being quoted.
In Quotes is focusing on political figures from United States, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom but could eventually extend its reach to all quotes on the web."
"Search what people are saying inside videos. Google Audio Indexing uses speech technology to find spoken words inside videos and lets you jump to the right portion of the video where these words are spoken."
"Google Sets, one of the first applications in Google Labs, allows you to automatically create sets of items from a few examples. Sets identifies groups of related items on the web and uses that information to predict relationships between items."
Many of us do not have the time to cull through the millions of new applications, blog posts, web 2.0 services and applications, educational websites.......etc, etc, etc, that seem to pop up every month, week, day, hour.......
Twitter provides a collaborative information portal that allows me to skim through 140 word posts by a growing group of educators and educational technologists from around the world.
Applications and gadgets to make twittering: Easier? More convenient? Different?
"TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
On TED.com, we make the best talks and performances from TED and partners available to the world, for free. More than 450 TEDTalks are now available, with more added each week. All of the talks feature closed captions in English, and many feature subtitles in various languages. These videos are released under aCreative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted."
"Big Think is a global online forum connecting people and ideas. Through an ever-expanding platform of knowledge content, including in-depth interviews with the world’s leading experts, Big Think is a vital hub for important information to help you function, and succeed, in a rapidly changing world. In keeping with our belief that crucial information should be freely shared, discussed and debated, we have developed a full menu of tools to engage, disseminate, and subscribe to uniquely powerful content. Whether you use Twitter, Facebook, Digg.com, Delicious, Google Reader, Vimeo, YouTube, a personal blog, Tumblr, or any application with an RSS feed, Big Think allows you to share bright ideas with the wider Big Think audience as well as your personal cadre of lively thinkers—quickly and easily."
GAPMINDER-"Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view." From the Gapminder website-
"Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.
We are a modern “museum” that helps making the world understandable, using the Internet.
Gapminder Foundation... fills the Trendalyzer with statistical content and use the resulting animations to fulfill our aim by:
Making time series freely available in Gapminder World and Gapminder Countries.
Producing videos, Flash presentations and PDF charts showing major global development trends with animated statistics and colorful graphics.
All with the intention of being a “fact tank” that promotes a fact based world view."
FORA.TV- Videos of the People, Issues, and Ideas Changing the Planet
From the FORA website-
"FORA.tv helps intelligent, engaged audiences get smart. Our users find, enjoy, and share videos about the people, issues, and ideas changing the world.
We gather the web's largest collection of unmediated video drawn from live events, lectures, and debates going on all the time at the world's top universities, think tanks and conferences. We present this provocative, big-idea content for anyone to watch, interact with, and share --when, where, and how they want".
ANYTIME you uses a resource, PREVIEW it BEFORE showing it to students, There are videos on these sites that would be inappropriate for use in the classroom.
"Xtranormal’s mission is to bring movie-making to the people. Everyone watches movies and we believe everyone can make movies. Movie-making, short and long, online and on-screen, private and public, will be the most important communications process of the 21st century.
Our revolutionary approach to movie-making builds on an almost universally held skill—typing. You type something; we turn it into a movie. On the web and on the desktop."
Students can create instant animated video presentations from simply typing text into a dialog box. The short video I created took 15 minutes and I'd never used this before this afternoon.
Research Papers- How to do it all with web based applications
NoteStar-is an Internet utility to assist in the preparation of research papers. Teachers and students can set up research projects with topics and sub-topics. Students may then take advantage of NoteStar's many features to collect and organize their notes and prepare their bibliography page.
What students can do:
• Create sub-topics for research topics • Assign topics to group members • Take notes • Easily track source information • Organize notes and sources to create printable notes and bibliography How to video
ThinkTank is designed to help students develop a Research Organizer (a list of topics and subtopics) for reports and projects. Based on the subject assigned, the students can refine it by choosing from a variety of suggestions and by using a random subtopic generator. This helps students learn how to refine a subject so that it is more manageable for Internet research. ThinkTank can be used alone or with another ALTEC product, NoteStar. Once students have developed their topics, they may export their topics to NoteStar.
Related Applications
Need a bibliography citation in the correct format and have no idea where to start?Go here. All you need to do is fill out the information and it generates the citation in the correct format.
Web Based vs. computer based applications: Cloud Computing
Have you ever wondered about why we still use applications installed on our local computers instead of web based applications? (besides the connection requirements....)
Will we need more than a web appliance in the future? Have we traveled full circle back to the days of dumb terminals running applications from a server? What are some opportunities for collaboration that web based resources can we provide for our students?
Listed below are web based applications that are alternatives to locally installed applications
All of the activity that you need to do takes place on a remote server and all you need is an internet connection.
"At the Web 2.0 Expo, we asked Tim O'Reilly, Dan Farber, Matt Mullenweg, Jay Cross, Brian Solis, Kevin Marks, Steve Gillmor, Jeremy Tanner, Maggie Fox, Tom McGovern, Sam Lawrence, Stowe Boyd, David Tebbutt, Dave McClure, Chris Carfi, Vamshi Krishna and Rod Boothby the same question: "What is Cloud Computing?". Here's what we got" -Joyent
This is the wiki of Lesley Denny, Instructional Technologist at Lackland ISD in San Antonio, Texas.
The purpose of this site is to learn more about the instructional uses of Wikis and otherweb 2.0technologies for students and teachers.
Lesley Denny is in her 6th year as an Instructional Technologist at Lackland ISD in San Antonio, Texas. Working with sixth through twelfth grade students and teachers, Lesley facilitates the use of technology in the classroom. Current projects include 1 to 1 computing with laptops for 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grades; 1 to 1 computing for 6-8th grades with in class use of ThinkPads; use of the TI-Navigator wireless calculator system in all high school math classrooms;and implementation of 7-12th grade Google Apps for Education including monitored email accounts.
Lesley attended the University of Texas at Austin and earned her bachelor's degree in Education and History at Wayland Baptist University. She is certified to teach grades 1-12 and spent most of her 14 years in the classroom in grades 6-8. She is a certified District Technology Specialist.
Lackland Independent School District is a public school district based in San Antonio, Texas (USA).The district's boundaries are coterminous with Lackland Air Force Base, and it only draws students who reside within the installation. However, it answers to the Texas Department of Education, not the U.S. Department of Defense, and functions much like any other Texas school district. Additionally, children of Lackland military members residing off base are zoned to the district and school that their residence is assigned to; in most cases they do not attend Lackland ISD schools.
DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed herein are my own and not necessarily those of my employer(s).
This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please Lesley Denny at digitaldenny@gmail.com
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