Myna Birds, KBears, and SMART Boards…

This site was just released last week, it’s awesome.  Myna is an online application where you can record and mix audio tracks…then save and share them.  Your students don’t need any extra software to create podcasts, mix up some background music, record vocabulary, whatever.  The cool thing is that kids can work on their projects [...]

TechCamp 2009 is on the stove…

It’s been since September that I actually posted something besides a Weekly Web Wonder.  Somehow I just have a hard time getting the thoughts that work their way through my head out onto the screen.  C’est la vie…
In any case, I want to make sure to start giving coverage to this year’s TechCamp.  Last year [...]

Day of Preparation…

Whew!  What a day!  After another week off from work, I returned today for a get-everything-set-up-for-TechCamp marathon.  Now there are four wireless labs in the conference rooms at Berrien RESA and each piece is in place…well, I hope it’s in place.
I created a quick Introduction Video for participants to watch just before the first session.  [...]

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: 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: Energize Your Classroom with Google Tools

NECC Program Description

I thought I might go to Will Richardson’s session, but I think it basically is covering how to use Ustream, so I thought I’d skip over to my other choice. Since it’s being facilitated by a couple folks from Google, they should have some inside information…or at least the latest and greatest [...]

NECC Session…Moodle Magic: Tricks for Enhanced Course Design

This first BYOL session was turning away participants half an hour before it started…
NECC Program Description
Michelle Moore has always done a great job presenting about Moodle.  Today’s session, focusing on design and layout of courses, should really have some great tips and suggestions.  As she is starting, I see that the way Janine and I [...]

On the way to NECC…

It’s kind of obligatory to post something as you’re in route to your conference destination, so I’ll throw a few thoughts in. I’m offline now using a blogging tool called Performancing. It pops up a little frame at the bottom of my Firefox window and in theory I could drag and drop items [...]

TechCamp Spotlight: Ben Rimes…will you Read, Please?

It’s not that I don’t think Ben Rimes isn’t going to read this post, but that Read, Please is the title of one of the two sessions he’ll be leading at TechCamp in August.  It’s great to have Ben at TechCamp…he’s a world-famous blogger as well as a local teacher and all-around super guy.  In [...]

TechCamp Starting Lineup…check out the schedule

With two months to go, the schedule for the first annual TechCamp is in place.  It seems a lot closer than two months since I’ll be off most of July, but it’s good to have the peices ready to fall together.  Rather than trying to fit everything in a narrow column, it would be best [...]