Cindy Putnam has very kindly given me the link to a VCASMO presentation she did on really bad PowerPoint slides. I’m looking forward to sharing it with my students, since they often fall victim to many of the temptations cautioned against in the presentation.
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After listening to Scott Holcomb’s discussion during Tech Camp on digital photography and photo management (free!) from Picasa, I picked up my camera, which does have a white balance control for use in flourescent lighting, bought a USB SD memory card reader ($4.99 at Target), and started playing. I also uploaded all of My Pictures [...]
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The day has come to a close, and Tech Camp 2008 was a great success. It’s interesting that people were working on so many different things during instruction. It would make me crazy if I were the instructor. I know that during the Podcast and wiki sessions, I went to another world on my blog and working on [...]
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I guess with my 6 month old Dell laptop, I won’t be able to participate in the wonderful world of podcasts. In terms of being on the cutting edge of audio technology I’m still stuck listening to the old audio cassettes and LPs. I do hope we spend some time identifying resources for grants and [...]
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I’ve realized that I’m not going to have a test at the end of this. WHEW. There were some interesting websites, however, that I plan to use. Animoto and Bitstrips will be fun to integrate into the classroom. I know students will have a kick with those. I feel more comfortable with multimedia sites, too, [...]
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Okay, so I thought I was overwhelmed after looking at the intros to blogs and wikis and a freaky little video on Web 2.0. Then came the afternoon and an absolute flood of information for networking tools it will take the rest of my life to set up. And when it’s all over, what do I [...]
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Okay, the hardest thing to do will be to shift from being a paper hoarder to relying solely on soft copies of notes, papers, ideas, etc. My nervousness has not improved. If I enjoy learning as much as I say I do, though, I need to learn this. I wonder how the new Word Notebook compares [...]
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So, the support from the staff here is great. I feel comfortable so far. I dread having to try to share this with teachers! If I need you, will you come?
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