Archive for August, 2008

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Reflections on Film to Digital Photography 1983-2008

  • Aug 21st, 2008
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  • Digital potpourri
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    • How many of your students own a digital camera?  Is a digital camera a toy or a tool?  If your students own a cell phone, is it equipped with a camera?  Teachers should welcome the digital camera as a learning tool.  Time to hop in the way back machine… remember when pictures were taken with [...]

    Adobe Photoshop Meets Web 2.0

  • Aug 14th, 2008
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  • Web 2.0, new technology
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    • What happens when Adobe Photoshop meets Web 2.0? Answer: Photoshop Express (psx). Two of the central tenets of Web 2.0 are an ability to move content to the web and then provide an easy mechanism to distribute the content to others. Psx is a free beta program that provides 2GBs of [...]

    I’m a Connector!

  • Aug 11th, 2008
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  • Training, new technology
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    • According to a new survey tool on the Pew Internet and American Life Project site, I’m now a certified member of the “connectors” group based on my question responses on technology use at home and for work.  The survey took only four minutes to complete.  If you spend a few minutes scanning my blog, it [...]

    Visualize Your Text with Wordle

  • Aug 8th, 2008
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  • Web 2.0, new technology
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    • Visuals can be a powerful means of expressing lots of information. Teachers who increasingly migrate their knowledge in the form of text to the web through blogs and wikis have a cool new web 2.0 tool, Wordle. Wordle is a web-based program running javascript that transforms lists of words, websites, rss feeds, [...]