Notes from Millie D

• Learning in Maine: Cartoon Creation

  Jim has put together a great list of resources of how to use comics in te classroom.

  tags: comics, classroom

• Front Office Blues

  This post makes a good position on the lack of a connection between technology in the classroom and administration.

  tags: 21stcentury, 21stCenturyLearning, 21stcenturyskills, administrators

• Super Maths World

  tags: maths, math, mathematics, interactive, education

• DigiTales - The Art of Telling Digital Stories

  tags: digitalstorytelling, storytelling, literacy, digital_storytelling, digital, education, english, multimedia

• Home

  This is an Open Source piece of software that does spam blocking, web filtering, remote access, and more.

  tags: security, software, opensource, firewall, home, open-source, freeware

• OpenOffice 3.0 dev for Mac

  tags: openoffice

• 38 Birthday presents from CoolCatTeacher to you!

  tags: coolcatteacher, web2.0

• Wired Safety

  tags: safety, education, internetsafety, internet_safety, parents, wired, resources, security, onlinesafety, online_safety

• Jailbreak Your iPhone (for Educators)

  tags: iphone

• FREE Logo Maker - FREE Logo Creator - FREE Online Logo Design

  tags: ICT, software, promotion, leadership, management, resources, links

• Diigo - Powerful Online Research Tool

  tags: Diigo, social_network, links, training, resources

• html2wiki - Convert HTML text to wiki markup

  use this to convert from HTML to wikispaces format..

  tags: html2wiki, converter, wiki, html, html-to-wiki

• Top 100 Tools for Learning: Summary PDF

  tags: web2.0, learning, summary, tools

• Live News Cameras

  tags: news, cameras, tv

The folks over at Common Craft have done it again.  This time they’ve created a nice video on podcasts.  Here it is

The usage of podcasts in education has only scratched the surface.  The potential is powerful.  Children can demonstrate their understanding of content through audio/video that can be shared with people around the world.  Teachers are able to learn best practices, virtually attend conferences/workshops, and build their professional knowledge.  I’m sure over the next few years podcasting will become a standard medium of classroom content.

My fifth graders are highly engaged and I thought I would take a minute and blog. My students are in Sandbox mode exploring Kerpoof. Right now they’re having fun just seeing what they can create but they are exploring, troubleshooting, collaborating (like I wrote up in my lesson plan). The next time I have them use it will be with the idea of creating a scene but it fun just to let them explore.