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Playing with PhotoSynth
I’m at a workshop today playing with Microsoft’s PhotoSynth.net website.
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Cool video effects
I’m always intrigued by the neat things people do with videos, and this girl has created quite a fun one with her accompanying herself on guitar. Her other videos are also worth a look.
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Wear your seatbelt
I’m always fascinated when I see these kinds of videos. They are simple but make a very clear point with little or no fancy props or flourish. As a Social Studies teacher and a Computer teacher seeing these videos leaves … Continue reading
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More stop motion animation
It’s that time of year again and my students are just about done creating stop motion videos. Here’s one of the first ones to come in.
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Adapting to Change
It’s a little didactic, but it’s a nice little parable about change. Sometimes it seems to be the thing teachers fear the most. Fr0m more than one teacher in more than one town I’ve heard the refrain “but that’s not … Continue reading
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Google Buzz
I just checked into my GMail and discovered I now had Google “Buzz.” I’m not yet exactly what it does, but here’s what Google says about it.
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Common Craft does it again
Common Craft’s latest video is Cloud Computing in Plain English. Like all their previous video’s, this one is a masterpiece of simplification. They make something complex like cloud computing simple to understand. The only down side to this video is … Continue reading
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Google's looking different
As teachers we’re always told to vary our approach. Sometimes you should deliver content orally, sometimes visually and sometime bring the message across on paper. This is intended to accommodate different learning styles of the students. If you’re trying to … Continue reading
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Suddenly MS Office looks exciting
I have to teach a course this fall on Microsoft Office. It’s a tough one to make exciting. I have to admit I just don’t know how to add a little pizzazz to Word or Excel. However, someone has done … Continue reading
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One More Look at Copyright
While I can’t say I like the Pirate Party getting a seat in the European Parliament, courts in the U.S. have swung in completely the opposite direction. A U.S. court recently decided that a woman who illegally shared 24 songs … Continue reading
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