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10 Ways to Promote Writing for an Authentic Audience - NYTimes.com
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Saturday, October 30, 2010
New Posted Resources 10/30/2010
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Friday, October 29, 2010
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Adobe's Project Rome
On Sunday Adobe released Project Rome. I was able to get a sneak peak and let me tell you, this is a pretty cool program. Think of it as an interactive portfolio and project manager. Students (or teachers) can use the amazing features of Rome to create highly engaging presentations. And with the integration of Google Apps, Moodle, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and more, this program has the potential to really change the way we think about projects and presentations.
They put together a really great video about it.
The other thing that is great is that while the product is aimed as several markets (home, business, etc) from there is a heavy focus on using this product in education.They even created a video for that.
What I like are the possibilities. No more boring Power Points or even Prezis. (Yep, I said boring Prezis.) The ability for students to add interactivity and animation simply to their projects and presentations is awesome. The example I saw was was a project on the solar system. Instead of one slide with one planet on it with all the information, Project Rome allows the student to create a journey across the solar system. They can animate the rotation of the planets around the sun. Do fly overs of each of the planets. And so much more.
The program runs on the Adobe Air platform so it will run on a PC, Mac or Linux with ease and it is a light install, about 20 mb. It can be accessed from the web as well. Students can save their work in the cloud and can work collaboratively on projects. Finished works can be viewed on the web or embedded on webpages as flash files.
Right now it is free but that will change in the future. No word on pricing, however. (Let's hope it will be reasonable for schools and districts.)
I encourage you to head over to the Project Rome website to learn more and check out all the features. If you do come back here and tell us what you think.
They put together a really great video about it.
The other thing that is great is that while the product is aimed as several markets (home, business, etc) from there is a heavy focus on using this product in education.They even created a video for that.
What I like are the possibilities. No more boring Power Points or even Prezis. (Yep, I said boring Prezis.) The ability for students to add interactivity and animation simply to their projects and presentations is awesome. The example I saw was was a project on the solar system. Instead of one slide with one planet on it with all the information, Project Rome allows the student to create a journey across the solar system. They can animate the rotation of the planets around the sun. Do fly overs of each of the planets. And so much more.
The program runs on the Adobe Air platform so it will run on a PC, Mac or Linux with ease and it is a light install, about 20 mb. It can be accessed from the web as well. Students can save their work in the cloud and can work collaboratively on projects. Finished works can be viewed on the web or embedded on webpages as flash files.
Right now it is free but that will change in the future. No word on pricing, however. (Let's hope it will be reasonable for schools and districts.)
I encourage you to head over to the Project Rome website to learn more and check out all the features. If you do come back here and tell us what you think.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Life-Long Learning
We encourage our kids to be life-long learners. And when they ask why we tell them all kinds of things like it is important to stay relevant in our careers and it is important for humanity to have people who enjoy learning, etc. (You probably have something much more creative and fun than mine.)
But that lead me to educators and life-long learners...
We want to have teachers that are life-long learners. The why is obvious, at least to me, why I want educators in general to be life-long learners. But why is that the case for you? Why are you a life-long learner?
I would like to collect the reasons you are a life-long learner. Not the reasons you think educators should be but why YOU are. Why do you continue learning? What benefits does it give you? If you aren't, or don't feel you are life-long learner, I would like to know that to and why. Fill out my form below and head back here in an few days and I will post the results. (If you want, you can leave your comments in the...well...comments below.)
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Why You Need A PLN-An Excerpt From The Simple K12 UnConference
Recently, I had the honor and pleasure of kicking off the Simple K12 UnConference. The "UnCon" aims to provide high-quality professional development to educators that is available anytime. Conferences are usually limited in time and can be expensive. The UnCon provides both live and recorded sessions from now until May 2010. But if you join you have access to the materials for a year. A pretty sweet deal for quality professional development.
Over at their blog they posted an excerpt from my talk on Personal Learning Networks and why you need one. This is a 10 minute clip of an hour long talk on PLN's. I hope there is good information from this clip and I hope you will check out the UnCon for the full version. There are tons of other great sessions on a wide variety of topics including podcasting, digital storytelling, Twitter and more.
Sneak Peek: Personal Learning Networks from SimpleK12 on Vimeo.
Thanks to Kimberly for all your hard work on the UnCon and to both Kimberly and Lisa for what you guys are doing!
Over at their blog they posted an excerpt from my talk on Personal Learning Networks and why you need one. This is a 10 minute clip of an hour long talk on PLN's. I hope there is good information from this clip and I hope you will check out the UnCon for the full version. There are tons of other great sessions on a wide variety of topics including podcasting, digital storytelling, Twitter and more.
Sneak Peek: Personal Learning Networks from SimpleK12 on Vimeo.
Thanks to Kimberly for all your hard work on the UnCon and to both Kimberly and Lisa for what you guys are doing!
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