PatSine

I've been a fan of Wordle since I first saw it but it's hard to figure out the best ways to integrate it into the classroom. Not to worry! I just came across this Tweet from @tombarrett

A great early years example added to "Fifteen Interesting Ways* to use Wordle in the Classroom"

Which led me to this GoogleDocs presentation.

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Been having a good time this week really being a geek again!

My project has been to make my own Wii Whiteboard as developed originally by Johnny Lee of Carnegie Mellon and featured at the 2008 TED conference. This let's you use your $40 Wiimote, a homemade <$10 IR Lightpen, and any surface in place of a commercial $1000+ whiteboard system. You bring the computer and the projector and here's the rest of the story.

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Today I got a chance to really explore the contribution that the kids from Cape Henlopen school district made to this project. You can start your exploration at the home page. Then check out the Family Night video where the kids participated in an international chat.

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I've been preparing for a session on organizing digital media for use in classes.  One of the things I've been struggling with is how to convince teachers that it's worthwhile to tag any of their content.  It's really taken me almost a year to figure out the best way for me to use my del.icio.us account.  The power of that service is all in tagging. I've also used Flickr extensively for a by searching on various tags and organizing slideshows or collections with that tool.

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At the beginning of June, I took a trip to Europe for the first time. Now, I'm finally getting my photos organized because I'm doing a session on digital images and education. Continue reading...

The month of June brought two stories that are hard to hold in your head at the same time.

Schools banning iPods to beat cheaters
From eSchool News staff and wire service reports
June 1, 2007—

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While working on a presentation about "multimedia assignments" for the UD Winter Faculty Institute, I revisited some tools I had played with before. Both of them have added features and just generally got better. First is BubbleShare. This is an online version of PhotoStory 3 or the narrated slide show features of iMovie. You can upload images and then add narration right in the web site. Continue reading...