Golden Compass
A really fun website to go along with the Movie Golden Compass. Check out my son’s daemon.
Today’s Webinar
What did you think about today’s webinar and wordpress demo? Let me know what you thought of vyew and the webinar.
Google’s Android
As if Google hasn’t already claimed most of the
Web 2.0 online world they too will be making huge gains in our mobile world as well. Their new open source mobile platform, Android, will soon have us doing more on our moblie devices than ever before. Will we need and iPhone or At&T? NO! Google will open to mobile device competition with the release of this open source platform. A computer right in the palm of our hands. I can’t wait to see what the 30 developers of the Open Handset Alliance create for the future mobile devices. How exciting!! You can read more about it here!! Man, the future holds so many possibilities. Imagine, cell phones in school. Maybe schools should begin thinking about how to allow these devices for instructional purposes. With about 97% of the student body owning a mobile device, spending could potentially be cut in half if students were to use their mobile devices for school work. Imagine the possibilities.
Image Chef
Create your own custom images to send and share with friends or embed in your blog or web site. Free and simple to use. Take a look at this example.
Alice.org – What is Alice?
Would you want your kids to develop an understanding of programing? Well check out Alice.org. Carnegie Mellon Professors and IT Specitalists have created a free 3D envirtonment for kids to learn programming. What a great idea! Very much like Scratch from MIT. It is a simple programming application for students to do just that. Download and install for free. Get students started on building content from a new perspective…. a 3D virtual perspective. Exactly where they live today. Virtual, digital natives would love the opportunity to use this in school. Give it a shot!!
“Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student’s first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies and simple video games. In Alice, 3-D objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects.
In Alice’s interactive interface, students drag and drop graphic tiles to create a program, where the instructions correspond to standard statements in a production oriented programming language, such as Java, C++, and C#. Alice allows students to immediately see how their animation programs run, enabling them to easily understand the relationship between the programming statements and the behavior of objects in their animation. By manipulating the objects in their virtual world, students gain experience with all the programming constructs typically taught in an introductory programming course.”
How can you not want to try this one? Carnegie
Doodle4Google
http://www.google.com/doodle4google/ Google announces a US student contest. Have your students answer the question What if?? Register your school .
Read the details for the contest below.
“Welcome to Doodle 4 Google, a competition where we invite K-12 students to play around with our homepage logo and see what they come up with. This year we’re inviting U.S. kids to join in the doodling fun, around the intriguing theme “What if…?”
Adobe Brio – Testing Webinar Training
Blogs in the Classroom – I will be testing Brio with my faculty next week to see how it works and if we can gain more attendance to training opportunities.
Netdisaster – Just silly and fun!!
http://www.netdisaster.com/ Check this one out… I was laughing out loud when entered my husband’s website in and had the cow and dog do their business on it. Fake web page disasters with a great sense of humor. If you are looking for something silly and need a laugh visit this site.
PETE&C Presentation
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Take Any College Course – Free
Visit Open Education Database and find a slew of college course materials free for the learning. http://oedb.org/library/features/236-open-courseware-collections Imagine taking a course at Cambridge University or Cornell. It’s all here, podcasts, videoes, documents, encylcopedias and more. You have to check this out. Learning is now free, oh imagine, learning free. Isn’t that what this country was founded on?
