Even though we may have all suffered an overdose of PowerPoint everywhere we go, PowerPoint continues to be an ideal technology tool for our students.  As we all know from our CLAD classes, the more we can support our students with non-textual connections to our content the better (through images, pictures, audio, and video).  In [...]

Target is still giving away $800 grants for field trips. Link If you have heard of Garage Band, try out Myna, an audio editor on the web. Link “Did You Know? Shift Happens” Videos released a 4.0 version. Check out all versions here Would you like to have a way to have all your website [...]

Target is still offering money ($800) for field trips. Link You most likely have seen the “Did You Know: Shift Happens” videos.  Version 4.0 is now avaiable.  Here’s a link to all the versions in different formats.  This could be a cool idea for students in creating their own Did you Know video on a [...]

Thoughts on the Last Couple Weeks Wolfram Alpha released into the wild.  Will be interesting to see where this one goes, or if Google swallows it in time.  Link …and Microsoft’s new rollout of their search engine Live Search is expected soon.  It’s called Bing.  Link Nice blog post on getting started with Twitter.  Link [...]

Moodle Tutorials: Very excited about seeing this site: MoodleTutorials.org.  Moodle is such a great open source project for online course development and really needed more tutorials in using its functionality.  Sure, it has its limitations, but it is a convenient way to run a class online without knowing HTML or web design. Link Twitter hyperventilation. [...]