Click and Shop
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These days, I find it easier to let my “fingers do the walking” when shopping for school supplies. Amazon has just made it easier. For college students, check out:
It is also required by law now that our college list textbooks that are to be used in our courses so that students can “shop” around for the textbooks. Many of my students are selecting the greener e-Books rather than hard/softbound textbooks. The nice thing about those, besides being green, is that you can electronically search them.
My girls are in the K-12 system and also need school uniforms. Here is the Amazon link for them:
Learning Styles for the Ageless Learner
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Learning Styles Backgrounder :: Ageless Learner
Do we change styles as we become more mature in our learning? Do we become more flexible in the way we learn, and can we adapt to the different modalities that are thrown at us?
I thought this site had a nice approach to pulling many learning theories together and applying them to lifelong learning.
I am especially partial to David Kolb’s Learning Style Model.
Learning Styles for the Ageless Learner
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Learning Styles Backgrounder :: Ageless Learner
Do we change styles as we become more mature in our learning? Do we become more flexible in the way we learn, and can we adapt to the different modalities that are thrown at us?
I thought this site had a nice approach to pulling many learning theories together and applying them to lifelong learning.
I am especially partial to David Kolb’s Learning Style Model.
Publish to Facebook from Jing
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Check out this link to learn more about using Jing for screen capture videos that can be published directly to Facebook with the click of a button!
The Facebook Button – Jing Help Center
You Tube Tip from Paula Henry
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Question: If I am watching a YouTube video and I want to share what is said 4 minutes and 21 seconds into the video, how do I get the video to start at the 4 minute and 21 second mark?
Answer: Copy and paste the YouTube video URL and add the following code to the end of the URL #t=4m21s
Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZZApfdRwYI#t=1m12s
To do it on an embedded video, use the “start” parameter. Note that start takes seconds as a parameter, not minutes and seconds. For example, to start an embedded video 31 minutes and 8 seconds into a video, 31*60+8 = 1868 seconds, so you would need to append &start=1868 to the value= link.
Give it a try!
Google 20
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At the AITP National Collegiate Conference, I attended a session on creating collaborative online communities for students. One idea was hiring student bloggers to introduce people to technologies and encourage careers for women and minority groups in the IT area. They showed a video (which I haven’t found yet, but I’m still looking) about women working at Google. One of the things that I was impressed by was the Google 20 where 20% of your time could be spent working on YOUR project. I think that could be applied to a lot of things including the classroom!
User Account Control Fixes SoftChalk License
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On my Windows 7 machine, I had trouble installing my Softchalk software that I love to use for course design. I found this answer, and it worked like a charm!
SoftChalk FAQ – The five questions posted most recently:
Windows 7 is my operating system. I am having trouble entering my license information. What should I do?
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 3:28 PMYou may need to turn off your User Account Control. Please see the steps below.
1. From your desktop, click on the Start menu (round ball) in the lower left corner of your screen.
2. Type UAC and press Enter.
3. Drag the slider to the Never notify setting.
4. Re-boot your computer.
5. Start LessonBuilder and choose Help/Enter License.
6. Enter your license info. Click OK.
7. Enable your User Account Control by repeating steps 1-4 except reset your Notify option to your previous setting.
Google’s Picasa
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Picasa 3: Free download from Google
I have been using Google’s Picasa for quite some time, but I didn’t have the newest version (nor did I access Picasaweb) before I upgraded my computer system. This new version allows me to use face recognition so that it can find all the pictures with a certain person in it. As soon as I identified my daughters in several photos I uploaded, I was able to view all the pictures of them. It was very neat to scroll through their development — it shows only a close up of their face in all the pictures. It was also interesting to see how accurate it was. Out of the thousands of pictures I have of those two, it only made a few errors. I had to look at the whole picture to make the determination which daughter is was, too! It identifies who it thinks is in the pictures and then asks you to confirm. What was amazing was that it could identify the baby pictures.
If you haven’t tried this one yet. It is a must!
Create and Share your own Knowlege Base with Knol
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Knol – a unit of knowledge: share what you know, publish your expertise. I ran across this when I was looking up something in Google Help. It sounds real interesting. Some of its uses might be: helpdesk repository, teaching repository, journal, writing a book, nuggets of knowledge… I plan on doing a little experimenting with this. Let me know if you do some, too!
Microsoft Songsmith
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I am going to download this. I think the girls will love to use it. Okay, who am I kidding — I want to play with it, too! I think it will especially be fun for Christmas tunes we make up. I haven’t found out what it exports to — maybe it will even interface with my piano!
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