As educators, we are always on a tight budget. So when it comes to extras like screencasting (recording your computer’s screen) software, Free is the right price. I just finished testing four solutions for screencasting ScreenToaster, Screencast-0-matic, Jing and CamTwist (mac only) and have decided the winner is Screencast-o-matic.
My criteria were 1) runs on my [...]
Several of my students in my web design class have been telling me about Ask A Ninja, but that is not what today’s links are aobut.
1 – Grammar Ninja: Fun with nouns and verbs. Ninjas are super cool right now and it amps up your cred as a fun teacher. Plus the kids might actually [...]
I just finished being a guest of sorts on the Wicked Decent Learning podcast. Jeff and Dan, the hosts decided a couple of episodes ago to do a “call in” show via Skype. I’d never actually tried Skype before. It is dirt simple. I got a Tweet from Dan that the podcast had started.
I decided [...]
I ran across a cool tool for photographers who want to apply the rule of thirds or the golden mean (fibonacci spiral) to a photograph. The Java Script one above did not work for me on the Mac, but this one did. You will need a Flickr account or some other image host to post [...]
Good little video about what a teacher can or cannot do under “Fair Use” rules in the classroom. Gets better around 2:00 min. into the video.
I haven’t done a man on the street interview lesson with my broadcast kids because I didn’t have a good example to show them how to do it right. I was too worried they would just pick their friends and the footage would be a waste of time and camcorder batteries.
The Culture Lab blog has [...]
Give ‘em what they want. That is the mandate of most news sites, sure give ‘em the news, but watch your analytics and give the reader what they like to keep ‘em coming back.
So, like a good blogger, I watch my anaylytics almost daily to see what’s hot and what’s not. But at the end [...]
1 – This is really long, so after you watch 2-3 verses you can cut it off, but it is worth a laugh (or not).
2 – Trailer for Stop The Presses documentary.
3 – From 10,000 Words blog here are 25 Things That He Has Learned About Journalism.
4 [...]
With all the Christmasing going on out there, and all the baking and of course eating – I’m providing some Link treats that are low calorie, actually no calorie.
1 – Nugget number one is just a graphic that I found appropriate.
2 – If you teach a language course or if, like me, you teach a [...]
I have seven pages of links in my read later list. I’ve been too busy to post cool links for a while. Sorry about that, but I’ve got a lot of days off coming up to post them in chunks.
1- Photo.net has a really good, in depth guide for taking portrait photos. The guide covers [...]
