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Archive for July, 2009

28 Jul, 2009

Twitter.edu: 101 Excellent, Educational Twitter Feeds

Posted by: Michael George In: Blog / RSS

Twitter offers a real-world education, right at your fingertips. It is a wonderful tool for collecting information, much of it educational. You can find educators, librarians, museums, and more on Twitter. Read on, and you’ll find 100 of the most educational feeds on Twitter. Educators Here are Twitter’s professors, teachers, and other educators. @therefore: Read [...]

28 Jul, 2009

Gates: U.S. ed has no choice but to improve

Posted by: Michael George In: News

Gates: U.S. ed has no choice but to improve Shared via AddThis

22 Jul, 2009

What is this RSS thing -

Posted by: Michael George In: Blog / RSS

I still get the question .. What is this RSS thing, why do I need it, and how is it useful? Answer xn-- Well, watch the video and see. [youtube 0klgLsSxGsU nolink]

18 Jul, 2009

ccMixer

Posted by: Michael George In: Audio|CC|Collaborate|Fun|Online Apps|Podcast/ Vodcasting|Video

http://ccmixter.org/ ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want. Remixers If you’re into sampling, remixing and mash-ups grab the sample packs and a cappellas for download and you can upload your version back into ccMixter, [...]

16 Jul, 2009

Scratch

Posted by: Michael George In: Collaborate|Fun|Games|Online Apps|Top Pick

http://scratch.mit.edu/ Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people [...]

12 Jul, 2009

The Free Sound Project

Posted by: Michael George In: Audio|Online Database|Podcast/ Vodcasting|Video

http://www.freesound.org/ The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter. New to this site? Read the What is Freesound page to learn more!

08 Jul, 2009

Intergrating technology into French

Posted by: Michael George In: Presentation|Web 2.0

Image from wordle.net (the good stuff) Keynote Presentation (swf)- vste -Vodcast Jog the Web Vodcast Links - (all the links) http://www.jogtheweb.com/play/KDELj2MPGvnf document version - vodcast-vste-2009 Flip Camera User Guide for PC’s ISTE - article http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/200812/?pg=24&pm=2 [vimeo 1173611 http://www.vimeo.com/1173611] (the legal stuff) Making Instructional Vodcasts by Michael George is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike [...]