January 2010
1 post
iPad
I thought I would give my take on the new iPad as an educational technologist. I have researched it all week and read all kinds of articles about it. The first thing I have to say is that the iPad is a very unfortunate name. Their marketing team really missed something on that! The next thing is that it could basically be named iPod2 because it’s just a big huge iPod Touch. I love my iPod...
May 2009
1 post
Your favorite online learning resources?
I’m preparing to teach “Strategies and Realities of Teaching Online” this summer. While I have taught it before, it was two years ago that I did that and I’m seeing a huge need for changing this course. So guess what? Less than a week before it begins, I’m rewriting the course. So here is where YOU come in… what are your favorite online learning resources? What...
March 2009
2 posts
Widgetbox › World's best place to find and make... →
Have you SEEN Widgetbox? Wow! What an incredible place! You can get the code to run all kinds of different widgets and they would be great to add into your online classroom! Want to see current NASA pictures? Add in the NASA widget. Want to show current tech and computer news? Add in the cnet.com widget. There are so many fun and useful widgets and they add anywhere you can add HTML code. They...
Home | Foxmarks →
Have you ever gotten frustrated because you’re working along and realize you bookmarked a site on another computer and you need that link NOW?! Meet Foxmarks! I’ve been using it for a couple of years now in Firefox and absolutely love it. Our family shares our bookmarks and we have them installed on at least five computers at the moment. If I leave my laptop at work for some reason, I...
October 2008
8 posts
New Mexico Society for Technology in Education... →
FaceYourManga.com | Shake Yourself! →
Just built my new face on Face Your Manga. :) Pretty cool! The only thing I didn’t like is that they didn’t have a curly SHORT haired person! I went with a medium hair person since I AM growing my hair out. ;)
OTLO / FrontPage →
There are a ton of resources Julia and Holly have accumulated to help you with teaching online.
Ning. Create your own social network for anything. →
Ok… time for feed back from YOU. Do you use Ning in your classroom? Show me some examples!
twhirl | the social software client →
Do you twitter? If you twitter, you need to install Twhirl on your computer. It works more like an IM and allows you to receive and give instant tweets without looging into the twitter website. If someone tweets me, I get an immediate notification. It’s easy to install and easy to use and best of all is FREE. Check it out!
Lorie's Voki Avatar →
Check out my Voki Avatar! I learned how to create my voki this morning in the Web 2.0 conference. Can you tell Iove PINK?!
VoiceThread - Group conversations around images,... →
Look at this totally cool presentation tool. It allows the teacher to put up audio comments on a presentation AND allows the students to comment back through audio. I can’t wait to play with this with my CS 110 class!!
Web 2.0
Tek’s Treks / Tools List
I’m in a conference session that is introducing us to all kinds of Web 2.0 tools. I have to admit I’ve used the tools they’ve introduced so far, but Julia stopped by and told me about Tumblr.com. With this hand-dandy goody where I can click on it and add an instant blog post, this just might become my new professional blog. Totally cool!
The link...