Farmers, Eyeballing, Taxes…

Agriculture is big business here in Michigan.  Check out the Harvest of History from The Farmers’ Museum and discover how farmers produce the food we eat everyday.
While studying geometry, have your students play The Eyeballing Game.  Players adjust a line segment to bisect an angle, form a parallelogram, or several other tasks.  It only takes [...]

TechCamp, SmugMug, Yelp…

It may seem like summer is a long way away, but begin thinking about attending TechCamp 2009.  During TechCamp you’ll have the opportunity to attend six hands-on sessions as well as hear from excellent presenters.  TechCamp 2009 is on August 25 & 26.  Visit the TechCamp wiki for more information, see last year’s Schedule-at-a-Glance, or [...]

TechCamp Spotlight: To the Limit

July has come and gone…I’ve stayed away from technology for quite a while now, but it’s time to move things along.  TechCamp is two and a half weeks away and I’m pleased to say that we’re booked solid with participants…filled to the gills.  That is so sweet…
We have even started a waiting list, which makes [...]

NECC Session: Feed, Tag, Research: Remixing for School Library 2.5

NECC Program Description
When I talk to the media specialists in our area, they often mention they enjoy listening to and following Joyce Valenza.  So I figured it would be great for me to attend this session…especially since I don’t have any librarian-type experience.  I hope to gain a little insight and perspective that might help [...]

NECC Session: It’s in Your Pocket: Teaching Spectacularly with Cellphones

NECC Program Description
I didn’t attend Liz Kolb’s cell phone session, partly because it was a hands-on session (and packed) and my cell phone doesn’t do much and also because I invited her to present at our TechCamp event in August. I heard a gal in front of me yesterday practically giddy about Liz’s presentation, [...]

NECC Session: Edtags.org: Academic Social Tagging to Aid Learning and Assessment

NECC Session Description
I didn’t plan on attending this session, but saw that Chris Dede was presenting so thought I’d better check it out.  I’ve seen his name flying across the RSS feeds, but ever paid much attention to he was up to.  What I’m assuming that the presenters are going to be highlighting Edtags.org, which [...]

NECC Session: Google Earth Advanced Placemarks

NECC Program Description
Susan Anderson and Jim Holland are presenting this session and like the one before, it’s at capacity.  It’s too bad that participants can’t sit on the floors, but they’re not being allowed to.
They’re main focus revolves around building Placemarks in Google Earth and how you can edit the contents of those placemarks so [...]

Powerset, Blender, Tools 4 U…

Everyone knows about Wikipedia…and many use it in various ways for research or information gathering. However, if you’ve ever used Wikipedia’s Search function then you know it stinks…it’s not that bright. Enter Powerset…it’s a search tool that searches Wikipedia articles much more effectively than Wikipedia’s search.
This may be for the more advanced students [...]

Racing, Dipity, Fluxtime…

Keyboarding isn’t the most exciting thing in the world, but TypeRacer can make it a little better. It may appear to only be another typing/racing game, but what spices it up is that 1) you actually type sentences instead of random words and 2) you can race live against other people…presumably your classmates. [...]

Free Animoto, Timelines, Sprouts…

I’ve highlighted Animoto before…Animoto is an online tool that lets you create short, simple video collages.  The news is that Animoto is giving away their All-Access Pass to teachers and their students.  Now you’ll be able to download and save movies as well as create longer movies.  All for free, of course.  What a deal!
We [...]