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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Websites for Educators 6-25-09

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http://www.GoogleLitTrips.com

A Different Way to Read Great Literature!
This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place… and so much more!

tags: teachers, literature, education, english, googleearth, google, reading, Web2.0, google_earth
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blendededu.com

Free learning tools software. Covers a wide range of learning abilities and academic content.

tags: teachers, education, learning tools
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University Lipdub (HS Furtwangen) on Vimeo

Was a project at the University Furtwangen, Germany of digital media course. More info at universitylipdub.com.

tags: teachers, education, studying
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How-To | Puget Sound Off

Similar to Common Craft, tutorials on a variety of topics. Worth checking out.

tags: teachers, education, tutorials
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BlackStar - Waypoint Management and Navigation, Geocaching App - BlackBerry Forums at CrackBerry.com

5/31/2009 BlackStar 1.5 is now available. OTA Download site has changed!! OTA Download: http://blackstarnavigation.com/ota Paul and Daniel have been busy working on improving” />

PowerShot SX200 IS Digital Camera

Creating gorgeous images is more fun than ever with the sleek, impressively equipped PowerShot SX200 IS, elegantly designed in three new colors.

tags: teachers, digital camera, Canon
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DSC-T700/H | Gray Cyber-shot® T700 Digital Camera | Sony | SonyStyle USA

A smart choice if not a tech savvy camera user.

tags: teachers, digital camera
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Amazon.com: Sigma DP1 14MP Digital Camera: Camera & Photo

Amazon.com: Sigma DP1 14MP Digital Camera: Camera & Photo

tags: teachers, Sigma DP 1, camera, digital camera
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Vocabulary Videos and Flash Cards for SAT, ACT and GRE - WordAhead.com > Home

tags: teachers, vocabulary, english, education, SAT, curriculum, ela, wordahead, wordahead.com
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2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning

tags: teachers, education, future, trends, 2020, 21stcenturylearning, forecast, school, schooling
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Tips from Techy Nana: No Future Left Behind

From Katie Warren’s DENny Award winning blog/event.

tags: teachers, Future of Education, learning, teaching
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Learn 4 Life » Combining Computer Generated Music and Images

This video was produced using the Wolfram Alpha Tones Generator - to make the music and the Mac Visualiser to produce a short accompanying video. I chose the simplest instruments - these sounds could be replicated in any primary school music lesson with xylophones etc - I made sure the music was very pared down with the controls - in fact using the generator you can isolate the individual sounds and possibly replicate or model them for “traditional” instruments or simply deconstruct the piece and re-scaffold it.

tags: teachers, WolframTones, learning, uk, teaching, music, remix

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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

The Nixon Era: Uncovering Coverups

Definitely worth the re-filming to get a great final production captured forever.  What if there was no news?  What’s news?  Watch The Nixon Era as Nadia Daher, Laudi El-Kareh, Hayley Joseph, Kelsey Molseed, and Andrew Samy uncover coverups in factual and counter-factual historical scenarios.

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Generation X: 1979--1989

Long awaited, definitely worth the extra effort at re-filming.  What if there was no news?  What’s news?  Enjoy viewing an intriguing counter/factual historical interpretations of what daily life might have been during this era with/out newsCreated by Peter Cialkowski, Skye McCarty, My Phan, Fatema Rajmohamed, Hannah Rucker, and Courtney Weiss.  ENJOY!

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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

1920-1933: An Era on Air Signing Off!

Thanks to the foresight of Frank Walsh, who taped his daughter Meagan’s IP team that opened the four presentations on May 27, 2009, we have one complete video, sight and sound, compressed, rendered, and uploaded to Mr. Walsh’s Viddler account.  He did all of this within and posted it to his blog within 24 hours--talk about a very tech savvy parent (I want to hire him to film and upload next year, but I doubt I could afford his per diem).  You can read about IP from a parent’s perspective, and undoubtedly enjoy An Era on Air‘s presentation.  Don’t miss the pictures in Walsh’s gallery.








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Monday, June 01, 2009

Ustream or Livestream: That Is The Question

Guest Blogger: William Kennington, junior, SHS
Cross-posted on PA DEN

Last week, on May 27, 2009, four groups at Salisbury High School in Allentown, PA presented their Integrated Project.  IP is year-long endeavor for students who enroll in the courses of AP US History and Honors English 11.  IP is a research-based project that incorporates a final multi-media presentation as well as a stage production that lasts for 45 minutes.  We streamed our presentations using two backchannels, one focused on the stage and one on the projector screen.  We had no problems streaming it, but the recorded videos were corrupt. You can still watch the two separate stream as they were the day we went live, but the downloaded video was buggy. Therefore, a compiled version of the presentation can not be made at this time, but we are working with ustream to resolve this issue. I have tried converting the presentation thus far with vixy.net, zamzar.com, ffmpeg, adobe media encoder, vlc, and other free media encoders. Ustream has been working on a way to convert their video directly through their website, but this feature is still unfinished and unavailable. Hopefully once this feature is implemented (or when we find a way to convert the video), we should be ready to release the compiled video for each of the four IP presentations.  We used Discoverystreaming videos in creating our factual and counterfactual histories, so when we get this problem fixed, we can show you how factual Discoverystreaming videos can be used to make counterfactual scenariors look real.

Interesting and timely, Mogulus, which has often been a go-to choice, has changed its name and website.  Mogulus, now Livestream, always supported multi-camera streaming but didn’t have have high quality resolution, but with the difficulties we have encountered, we might switch to Livestream.  From their newsletter, here’s what’s new with Livestream:

Recently we changed our name from Mogulus to Livestream, and you can find us at our new home at http://www.livestream.com. As much as we loved our old name, it was time for a change that reflects our growth and more clearly communicates what we do. We hope you like “Livestream” as much as we do.

Along with the new brand and domain come a re-designed website, and most importantly for you, another simple way to broadcast from the Livestream website.

This new tool offers instant streaming from any page on our website. Just click the red ‘Broadcast Now’ button or go to your ‘My Account’ section.

Go live with one click from almost any webcam or camcorder, and chat or Twitter to promote your channel, all right within the application.

Of course you can still use Procaster (our downloadable desktop application) for the highest possible quality, but for instant no-fuss streaming, the new broadcaster is great.

Now that we’ve changed, what do you need to do?

In short, nothing!

Your channel pages and embedded players will continue to function just as they did before. You may want to update any links to your channel page (i.e. change from “www.mogulus.com/yourchannel” to “www.livestream.com/yourchannel”), but the old links will still work even if you don’t get around to it.

If you’re using the old logo, we’d appreciate it if you update it to the new Livestream logo. You can download it here.
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For more info on the change, below are a few links to the press release and related stories. Or, follow us on Twitter @livestreamcom.






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