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Showing posts with label tech support. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tech support. Show all posts
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Accessing older blog posts
Just as an FYI - only 7 blog posts show up on the screen at a time. Make sure you click on "Older Posts" at the bottom of the page so you see all the posts from your classmates!
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Voicethread - what it looks like when posted to a blog
I had a great impromptu Skype conversation with Amanda today, and she (& her teammate Kimmy) expressed interest in using a tool called Voicethread in their culminating lesson #3.
As a way of showing (briefly) what a Voicethread is and how it would look embedded in a blog post, I've posted below a short Voicethread I made about classroom design in one of my fieldwork placement sites: City & Country. Voicethread can accommodate photos, videos, or documents, and people can use a pen to highlight areas of the central image while they are leaving a comment. I encourage you to explore the Voicethread website and definitely look at their 1-minute "What is a Voicethread" piece for more information.
I've used Voicethread with quite a few teachers (including some faculty here at Bank Street) so if you are looking for inspriation or support, email me!
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Example of an embedded YouTube video - and where to find videos
I know that you are all reading Will Richardson's book about Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts, so I chose an interview with him as my example embedded YouTube video.
Other places to find good videos for your Curriculum Projects are: TeacherTube, Vimeo, and the EDU section of YouTube. A student in my EDUC 525 class shared two Vimeo videos on Guided Reading (video 1 and video 2) that might be of interest to you all.
Other places to find good videos for your Curriculum Projects are: TeacherTube, Vimeo, and the EDU section of YouTube. A student in my EDUC 525 class shared two Vimeo videos on Guided Reading (video 1 and video 2) that might be of interest to you all.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Uploading presentations to the class blog
PowerPoint / Blogger instructions:
As far as I can tell, Blogger does not support uploading large files like a PowerPoint presentation or PDF file. I recommend that everyone use SlideShare to post PPTs on class or personal blogs. Many of you are already doing that, and it seems to work great!
So ... go to SlideShare.net and click on the UPLOAD tab at the top of the screen. You don't have to create an account, but you can. If you create an account, you can export the presentation directly to Blogger ... there is a little icon under the slideshow that lets you do that. If you are guest, you have to copy & paste the "secret" (their word) URL to your slideshow in a blog post.
Make sure you make this an active link in your blog post. That is done by selecting the text you want to link to Slideshare (such as the Title of your presentation) and clicking on the "link" icon in the toolbar. It looks like a chain. A window will pop up where you can paste the URL, hit OK, then save and publish your post.
-Jessica
As far as I can tell, Blogger does not support uploading large files like a PowerPoint presentation or PDF file. I recommend that everyone use SlideShare to post PPTs on class or personal blogs. Many of you are already doing that, and it seems to work great!
So ... go to SlideShare.net and click on the UPLOAD tab at the top of the screen. You don't have to create an account, but you can. If you create an account, you can export the presentation directly to Blogger ... there is a little icon under the slideshow that lets you do that. If you are guest, you have to copy & paste the "secret" (their word) URL to your slideshow in a blog post.
Make sure you make this an active link in your blog post. That is done by selecting the text you want to link to Slideshare (such as the Title of your presentation) and clicking on the "link" icon in the toolbar. It looks like a chain. A window will pop up where you can paste the URL, hit OK, then save and publish your post.
-Jessica
Socialstudies Ppt
This is Lisa Berenholz's Community PPT, originally posted on June 1, 2009.
Socialstudies Ppt
View more OpenOffice presentations from lberenholz.
Threading together some of our conversations
Hi Everyone --
This blog can be not only a forum for sharing assignments with the group, but also a place to link (as in connect) some of the many conversations we will have about Social Studies, curriculum development, use of technology with students, etc. To help out with that, I will be regularly linking (as in linked hypertext) info from the course's home-base on myBankSt to this blog and vice versa.
This linking (in both senses of the word) will happen through new blog posts and discussion threads that I create as well as in the comments, so please look to see if your posts have comments to read and respond to.
I hope this helps to tie together some of your work that is being published in multiple folders and forums -- which is necessary to keep it organized, but can make it hard to keep track of -- and spark some conversation around the work you are presenting.
-- Jessica Millstone
This blog can be not only a forum for sharing assignments with the group, but also a place to link (as in connect) some of the many conversations we will have about Social Studies, curriculum development, use of technology with students, etc. To help out with that, I will be regularly linking (as in linked hypertext) info from the course's home-base on myBankSt to this blog and vice versa.
This linking (in both senses of the word) will happen through new blog posts and discussion threads that I create as well as in the comments, so please look to see if your posts have comments to read and respond to.
I hope this helps to tie together some of your work that is being published in multiple folders and forums -- which is necessary to keep it organized, but can make it hard to keep track of -- and spark some conversation around the work you are presenting.
-- Jessica Millstone
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