Cool Iris

Cooliris (www.cooliris.com) is a web browser plug-in that allows the user to dynamically organize web-based images and movies. In addition, it's a handy tool to organize your personal or departmental images and multimedia. Cooliris integrates with popular web social networks such as Facebook and Youtube, and allows you to subscribe to video channels from your favorite networks, cable, and video sites (such as HULU.) All of this is provided in a fun, high-tech interface. Cooliris may even speed your searches for media! To experience Cooliris, watch the following movie:

Evaluating with Audio/Video

Need a new twist to correcting papers?


http://screenr.com/ekl


Shout out to Melissa Houghton for the request!

National Archives Experience

DON'T CLICK on the following link unless you have a lot of time - you will be hooked for hours! The link will take you to the National Archives Experience. Choose from thousands of starting topics, and a host of related topics to view and read will surround your topic. Drag something else into the middle and you'll view a new set of relationships. Creat your own pathways and customize for class activies.

Not only is the material presented worthy of a look, but the genius in presentation is something to behold. This could lead to amazing teaching and learning.

Don't miss this one!

http://www.digitalvaults.org/

Pen-Casting

This blog is a shout out to Mary Olson from BTEC.

It's been over a year since we first told you about livescribe. (http://rctcet.blogspot.com/2009/09/livescribe.html)

Mary has recently mastered this recording pen and has been using it to explain test results to her students noting some common errors and expanding a teachable moment in a visual way with accompanying audio.

Here's Mary's pencast: http://tinyurl.com/235codm

You simply click the play button. Note you can expand to a full screen view in the upper right hand corner.

In a continued effort to create community, feel free to use the comment area and share some other ideas of how you might use this pen. Remember - Ed Tech has 2 of these pens available for checkout.