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I’m at a workshop today playing with Microsoft’s PhotoSynth.net website.

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.

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 →

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.

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 →

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 →

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 →