I am not sure what to call it, housekeeping, digital clean up, or web maintenance. But whatever it is, it has taken up quite a bit of time and I am not yet done. In my role as K12 Technology Integration Specialist, I feel it is part of my responsibility to experiment with many of the web tools that are available for teachers. I believe I need to play with the tools to know what will be useful in different…
It is the weekend and I thought I would play around with my blog, much better then cleaning the house, or buying groceries. I know my blog needs a major overhaul, I am not pleased with the look, after a year it seems dark and cramped. But I still have not settled on a look or feel. Today I added SNAP preview to my blog. I have seen it on a few blogs I read and thought I would give…
The Tech Savvy Educator shared a free art program, ArtRage, which I passed on to my daughter. She loves it and took to it in minuets. I feel like a bad mother giving her one more thing to distract her from her school work. She has such a creative spirit now she has one more tool to show it off.
I did not attend this session I have to work at the MassCUE SIG table. So Becky, a fellow Ed Tech team member from my district took these notes. (Becky it is time to get your own blog) David Warlick has be on since 8:30 and this session goes till 12:20 how does he keep going. His third session is entitled Harnessing the New Shape of Information, covers many web 2.0 tools. Handouts for the presentation can be found at…
Keta Erosion.jpg Originally uploaded by bknittle. Today I took some time to play with flicker. I have had an account for a while but never had time to explore the features from a teacher’s perspective. After watching the presentation on flickr by Jeff Utecht at the K12 Conference Online, I decided to try out the map features. Like Jeff I have worked as an overseas educator. I have lived or travelled in many places; Ghana, Jordan, Korea, Thailand, England, Syria,…
A simple experiment in art, created for one student’s illustration course, Line Rider is a unique online toy which allows users to hurtle a hapless scarf-clad man down steep hills of dizzying height, huge jumps, and end over end flips with just a pencil. The Tech Savvy Educator I needed a good laugh and really enjoyed this. I’ll think about the educational implacations later. Thanks Ben ! Blogged with Flock
In the spirit of universal design I have created a free Talkr account which allowed me to install a Talkr plugin. This plugin turns my blog posts to mp3 audio files. It is a computer generated voice but is not to bad to listen to. This allows people to subscribe to the audio feed, and listen to them on their mp3 player, or right from the blog post. This is a pretty amazing tool. Let me know what you think.