Wikipedia’s Article on Social Networking
Now You Know 4.0 (Youtube Link)
NSBA Report on Social Networking
and Now
Prezi Link on Facebook
Microblogging with Twitter and Google Buzz
Close to home Kudzu
Create and share ideas
Confirm your charity GuideStar
This topic just keeps coming up for me and I suppose it’s something that must be an issue for others too, screencasting. This technology has been around for over a decade but recently it has really matured to point that it is very useful. What is screencasting? According to Wikipedia:
” A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture, often containing audio narration. Although the term screencast dates from 2004, products such as Lotus ScreenCam were used as early as 1994.Early products produced large files and had limited editing features. More recent products support more compact file formats such as Adobe Flash and have more sophisticated editing features allowing changes in sequence, mouse movement, and audio.”
It’s highly useful when you are trying to send directions or demonstrate something without taking a million screen shots and typing directions too! Here are some tools I have found, the only ones I have not used is Adobe’s Captivate and Screenflick but I would like to try them real soon. I am also including a couple of screen shot programs too.
ScreenToaster (Everyone and FREE!)
Screencast-O-Matic (PC AN MAC) (FREE)
Adobe Captivate 4.0 (PC ONLY)
Screen Capture
Mac have had Command-Shift 3 and Command-Shift 4 for as long as I can remember. Command-Shift 3 gives you a screen shot of the entire screen saved to your desktop as Picture # and Command-Shift 4 bring up a cross hair that allows you to draw a box around what you want to capture and saves that file on your desktop as Picture #.
PCs must have some love too….Vista has a great too built in called Snipping Tool but XP well, it doesn’t have much so there is … PrtScr (FREE) this works for Vista too but adds some features to just your normal Print Screen command
Jan 3
How would you use MovieMaker in your classroom?
Using MovieMaker in Math Classes
Digital Story “Tool Box” (dated but good)
How to create a digital story from UMass
Complete digital storytelling resources
Nov 9
Sep 23
Sep 8
Some links from tonight’s discussion
Aug 28
Aug 22
Compatability Pack for Office 2003 to 2007
Microsoft’s Office 2003 – 2007 Transition Site
Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF
Paul Thurrot’s Review of Office 2007
Microsoft’s Word 2007 Web Site
Microsoft Speech Recognition Profile Manager
Transferring Speech Recognition profiles from one machine to another
http://techjive.net/2007/02/02/excel-keystrokes/
http://www.mrexcel.com/excel2007.html
Excel Tip Sheet
http://www.mrexcel.com/excel2007tipcard.pdf
Aug 8
GPS is an excellent, multidisciplinary, inquiry-driven, field-based, standards-based tool applicable to many subjects, including mathematics, geography, earth science, environmental studies, and more. Ideas for using it in the educational curriculum are found here!
The Degreee Confluence Project
The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures, and stories about the visits, will then be posted here.
115 GPS Lessons from The Lesson Planet
If you are in Kennesaw Hall, at the ETC…you are right here!
EasyGPS is the fast and easy way to transfer waypoints, routes, and tracks between your computer and your Garmin, Magellan, or Lowrance GPS. EasyGPS lists all of your waypoints on the left side of the screen, and shows a plot of your GPS data on the right. Use EasyGPS to back up and organize your GPS data, print maps, or load new waypoints onto your GPS for your next hike or geocaching adventure.
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