Education in Classrooms Today

August 4th, 2009

This is Sir Ken Robinson 20 minute clip that makes some good points about how schools are killing creativity. What point do you think he is making? Then, compare his ideas to those of Ted Kemft in chapter 12. Which man best covers your ideal classroom and what are those ideals?

Sir Ken Robinson


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animoto embed?

August 3rd, 2009

The media below is an embedded video file created by me using http://animoto.com . The media lives on their server, not on this blog, and it doesn’t need to be downloaded.

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Embedding: The Power of Edublogs?

July 14th, 2009

Glogster.com is not the ideal web 2.0 application for all classrooms, since there is some inappropriate media linked to it, but as an interactive teacher tool, it’s very student-appealing.

This particular glog is a teacher tool for sharing alternatives for finding appropriate and legally-responsible photos for school products.

Advertisements on Edublogs

June 3rd, 2009

Unfortunately, one must live with ads on the post pages unless one wants to pay for the subscription costs.  Subscription upgrades will remove the ad as well as give you more storage space.

Will a M4v file Post Up?

November 19th, 2008

This is a DiscoverySTreaming video with the sound removed. The student made the narration in GarageBand while using an audio track behind it for music.

m4v doesn’t meet file security regulations.  there is no video here.

Will a mp4 File Post?

November 19th, 2008

This  is the AFI DEN Educator film my group created in Dallas, Texas.  The uploaded file is an mp4 file and it opens in the web browser to play without downloading.

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Posted in edublogs using the Insert Video icon.

Will a WMV file post up?

November 19th, 2008

Attached to this post is a windows media file.  It will download to the computer and play after downloaded.

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IT Pro is a comedy skit that I found on YouTube some time ago.

Can I Play A Song?

November 18th, 2008

This mp3 song was uploaded to my blog.  It will play in a web page.

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Attaching a picture and a file

June 23rd, 2008

3D glasses are all the rage in a 2D world.

This is the Powerpoint file that I want you to use in today’s lesson: bloggingintheclassroom.