Here is a Jingcast that I created. Irfanview is a great utility to keep handy!
Searching Effectively with Google December 3, 2007
Here is Part 1 of several videos on Secret Google Search Tips. This is where you will find the upcoming tips. Good videos to show your students and they are Canadian too!
Do you want to create a survey? November 12, 2007
I have been working with several teachers using ePearl as an assessment tool and presentation tool for parents. They are using ePearl as part of their triad conferencing. Students will show parents their work stored on ePearl. Parents will see that they can access ePearl from home also. They will be encouraged to comment on their child’s work. I really like ePearl as the tool for assessment / electronic portfolio.
Another tool I tried for the first time this week is Survey Monkey. A tool for creating web surveys. I wanted to survey a group of students and this was an easy tool to learn. Your free survey can contain a maximum of 10 questions, you may have several surveys. There are several types of questions that are fairly easy to configure. I could see using it as a teacher, but also as part of an assignments where students compose the questions and compile and present the data. You are given a weblink or code to embed your survey into blog or webpage.
EduBlog Awards – “The Eddies” November 7, 2007
The 2007 Edublog Awards are open for nominations. There are 20 categories and a new logo. Nominations end November 21 at which time voting begins. When you go to the site, you can browse through the previous winners from 2004 – 2006. You should find some interesting websites to include in your RSS Aggregator or to bookmark in Del.ici.ous.
Scratch October 21, 2007
I have had fun today exploring a new online tool – Jing.
I am teaching 2D Animation. I was introduced to a free program called Scratch which I like to use for a few weeks in this course. Scratch could be used with young students. If you ever used Logo, this is the next generation programming. You use sprites, given directions by stacking blocks to create programs.
Something else I tried today is a screen capture program called Jing . It is an amazing program, I was able to record an introduction to Scratch. I then attached a link to the video on our class Moodle. Here is the video made in Jing.
