Tuesday, January 16, 2007

E-book

What is E-book ?
What is Zinio? Free E-book software
Zinio is a company providing digital magazine distribution for most of popular magazine in digital format. Zinio provides print publishers with a way to distribute their printed publication digitally, to read online or offline. (Retrieved from wikipedia)

Download the free sample magazine (Download).

Free sources for podcasting - Audacity

What is Audacity ?

"Audacity is a free, open source, cross platform digital audio
editor
. The source code for Audacity is released under the GNU General Public License. The graphical user interface for the editor has been produced using the wxWidgets library.

Audacity was created by Dominic Mazzoni of Google, while he was a graduate student at Carnegie-Mellon University. Dominic Mazzoni is still the main developer and maintainer of Audacity, with help from many others around the world.
Audacity is extremely popular in the podcasting world due to its wide availability, multiplatform support, and the fact that it is free." (Retrieved from wikipedia)

Where to download ? Audacity site.

Sunday, January 14, 2007

week 2 - top ten technologies

Before class:
Read the memo for this week

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In class:
Ten technologies innovations (slides)
Integrating technology in math education (slides)

* Reflection 2:
What are your top five technologies ?
Choose two of your favorite technologies. How will you integrate them in your class ? How will the two technologies help you teach and kids learn better ?

Modeling Activity - Virtual Museums
Science: Exploratorium-Museum of science, art, and human perception
Math: manipulation & family math problems- popcorn

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After class:

For week 3 (not week 2) - we'll meet in the lab
Mon 2:30 - Student Building 221 (map)
Wed 8:15 - Student Building 221 (map)
Thu 8:00 - Education 2025

We will work on building E-portfolios. Please bring your flash drive with you.
We'll also create blogs. Check out the links.

* What is "blog" ?
* Examples: a science teacher's blog