Spotlight

This is a simple way to make a movie for web posting. Just upload your images, up to 15 for a 30 second movie, and let Animoto do the work!

Here is a wiki by Michael Horton, a science coordinator for California’s Riverside County Office of Education, filled with resources for science teachers. This includes everything from lesson plans, to links to free movies you can use in class.

As I posted earlier, the K-12Online Conference 2007 is next month. If you are even considering attending this wonderful experience, be sure to visit the site and watch the short videos prepared by the presenters. This is a very clever way to introduce the topics and the speakers to the general audience. There are several workshops I will attend now that I have been introduced to the presenter and their topic. If you don't use any of these tools for yourself or professionally, this is a good place to start learning!

This appears to be a new magazine created by the folks at Eduction Week. The first issue came out in the summer and this second issue has some very thought provoking concepts for using technology. How about kids using IM to discuss a book? Read more at this link. There is also some information about whiteboards, wikis and email.

This site from the ReadWriteThink provides a TON of lesson plan ideas, forms, charts, a calendar of professional events and much more. This is worth the visit especially if you teach a literacy class

This new high speed camera (2000 frames per second) is demonstrated here. Imagine what could be done with this type of capture for science, sports analysis, motion analysis etc. I think we will see more fun videos from this guy.

Sometimes you can find something that will be part of a great lesson and you adjust the lesson to use what you find. This may be one of those visuals. There are implications for using this in math, science(recycling), creative writing, or pop culture. You chose what fits your style and standards! Thanks to Chris Jordan for this series of images.

The Best Buy teacher grant is closing applicatons on September 30, 2007. There is a wide variety of grants which will be awarded in February 2008.

If you do some creative arts activities in your room, you will find some excellent resources at this site. Thanks to Donna S. in my graduate class for suggesting this site for our class.