Tech Discussion & Recommendations

too much mail!

aterner — Sat, 17 May 2008 17:36:37 -0500

I like knowing what is going on, but I'm getting way too much mail about stuff. How can I set my account to get mail once a week instead of each day?

Thanks,

Alice

Help Select the Best Ed Tech Articles

jenroland — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:48:33 -0600

I'm editing a compilation of the best articles from volumes 31-35 of Learning & Leading with Technology magazine, and I'd like your help in selecting articles.

Please visit my blog at http://bestofll.blogspot.com/ and nominate the articles you
believe:

* Hold up over time
* Help advance the appropriate use of technology in education
* Help teachers understand and apply complex pedagogical principles in the classroom
* Have helped you support teachers in the classroom
* Are enjoyable to read

Does anyone know of a GREAT short "story" of the impact and significance of web 2.0?

markchrisman — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:19:39 -0600

Does anyone know of a GREAT short "story" of the impact and significance of web 2.0 in the business workplace, specifically for the new generation of workers?

Why am I asking this? - I would like to quickly "sell" an executive on web 2.0.

Recommendations for Streaming Video

bthat — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:00:47 -0600

One of the request I've been getting quite often this semester is to put video clips in our Blackboard course. Faculty members are bringing large quantities of video clips on copyrighted DVD's to me and requesting that students be able to access and watch them via Blackboard (our course management system). We or they have gotten permission to put these on the server. The problem is that we don't have a streaming server.

Bye bye Eduspaces

Jeff — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:12:07 -0600

This just arrived in my inbox from the Eduspaces team

Hi All,

We would like to inform all users of EduSpaces that we will be shutting
down the service on Jan 10th, 2008.

We have provided a mechanism for you to export all your blog posts in
either an RSS format or HTML. To do this, go to your blog and select the
submenu option you require. For those of you with files, you might want to
download those as well.

Thank you to everyone who has supported EduSpaces over the last three
read more

What are your 'Must Listen' podcasts?

Jeff — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:41:58 -0500

An interesting question was posed during last week's EdTechBrainstorm -

What are you 'must listen' podcasts? The ones atop your list of faves that get listened to first when time is limited...

What do faculty expect from Instructional Technologists?

toddcher — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:34:09 -0500

I would like to begin a discussion on what faculty at higher ed institutions want/need from instructional technologists- if that position exists at their colleges/universities.

Think.com

jmill123 — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:35:28 -0500

My students (seventh-graders) and I (an English teacher) are using Think.com this year.

This online tool gives each of my students a personal web-space where they can post assignments, collaborate on projects, and communicate through email. It also allows me to increase the frequency and depth of feedback, both from peers and from the teacher (myself).

Uboost

teach-er — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:03:36 -0500

hi everyone,

EdTechWeekly's Cream of the Crop Show Contributions

admin — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:53:41 -0500

On Sept. 23, the EdTechWeekly gang will be hosting a 'Cream of the Crop Show' discussing the finest tools and resources in the world of edtech.

No categories - this is a free-for-all. Please tell us all about your edtech faves.

Help me save ELGG at a public high school!

Steve Maher — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:27:25 -0500

I am the History Department chair at a public high school in New Jersey
who needs some assistance in regards to policy
considerations when an academic institution runs ELGG. If I can't find an answer soon we will lose our new ELGG.

Our administration is concerned that students can create communities
and exchange materials privately, away from the scrutiny of even the
network administrator. We are not up against a team of entrenched
stone-age recalcitrants, but rather a fear of being in court trying to

educational technology

xiaobee — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:31:53 -0500

AT in the Pacific . . .

odetojoy — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:25:03 -0500

Hafa Adai!

Assistive technology (AT) has opened up the world and revived the lives of many individuals with disabilities. What would be the top 3 websites and articles that provides a comprehensive overview on the practical applications of AT by disability for school-aged children and the educational implications?

Top Tech Tools for the Classroom

lgreat58 — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:34:54 -0500

What are the coolest new tech tools being used in the classroom? Wheres "high-tech" going in the classroom? What's going to be next?

Learning Management in the Classroom

lgreat58 — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:19:22 -0500

I was wondering what, if any learning management systems people used. Do you use these to communicate with your students? Create lessons? Share files? Grade posting? Group work? Forums?

Online screencast video comparison

admin — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:41:51 -0500

Below are examples of the same screencast encoded by different video sharing sites. The orignial video was encoded as a 640x480 .mov file. They were all pretty easy to upload and embed. Which do you think produces the best quality video?

Webcast Help Request

HappyTrails — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:01:18 -0500

Things went fairly smooth on our inaugural EdTechTalk K12 webcast on Thursday. There are a few things I could use: I created a program but that does not transfer into the creating audio upload nor entering an event on the schedule. Is there a standard or process to get the webcast audio into the feed? Thank you

Technology Workshop

JennyZ — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:30:44 -0500

We are having a week-long tech institute at our school - the opeing day will provide frame wiht a focus on Web 2.0 - the importance of students having opportunites to use 21st skills for learning - because of the extrodinary value of the skills themselves. I am looking for a perfect web 2.0 opening - to hook and energize the teachers attending and to give them a sense of what Web 2.0 means - I need ideas !!!!!!

Your Web 2.0 Toolkit

admin — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 15:15:19 -0500

Although i know many of you are irritated by the term 'web 2.0', like podcasting, it's what we've got. So, what's in your toolbag? That's the question for tonights edtechtalk, and that's the question we're looking for people to work on in the forums this week!

Screencasting

Paul Ellerman — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 06:57:07 -0500

Has anyone used "Wink" before?

I just downloaded the 2.0 verseion, but have not had a chance to play with it.

http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

Thanks in advance everyone.

Software and Sites for Younger Learners

scottmerrick — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:50:37 -0500

Hey, ya'll. What do you use for the little ones? I'm a big fan of the uptoten.com site (Boowa and Kwala in particular!--their free "200 activities in 50" lessons is free for schools simply upon email request) and as many freeware solutions as I can get my hands on. DrawingForChildren for art, MoSoft's Tangrams (no longer free but acquired free years ago) and StackerBlocks for visual manipulation, and our "webliographer" for an interactive links database that serves as the start page for my kids in the lab and at home.

The Blue Frog!

buthaina — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 13:30:56 -0500

I have been receiving lots of spam messages in my Yahoo! Mail account, lately. In addition, the spam filter by Yahoo! hasn't been functioning well, directing emails from old familiar senders to my Bulk folder. I have stopped my Norton AntiSpam in order to avoid any kind of conflict with that of Yahoo, however, the problem continued. Last week, I arrived at one of Yahoo pages where I found and then downloaded the new Anti-spam program, Blue Frog, which should work with Yahoo, Gmail, and Hotmail Mails. Then, I found a message in my Bulk folder from a freind complaining about a similar problem of unknow senders spamming him, and has promised to work on some stuff that should solve the problem for all of us exepriencing this kind of trouble. Well, I can see that spammers have left my Inbox folder alone, eventually; however, I'm not sure whether it was James's solution or that little Blue Frog!

RSS readers - What do you use?

Paul Ellerman — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 21:54:34 -0600

Was wondering what everyone uses as a RSS reader?

Right now I have both Doppler and Juice installed, but am not sure as I have not used either extensively.

Thanks

paul...