tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5382246706899860422024-02-18T20:48:53.906-08:00Tech Talk with cnansencnansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632347136116233161noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538224670689986042.post-45282858725343696872022-02-04T09:26:00.000-08:002022-02-04T09:26:38.379-08:00Logic games - Wordle and Mastermind<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wordle and Mastermind Games</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-1dc52690-7fff-fb91-02f9-e414144bdcfd"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Wordle game has gone viral, and can be “played” on any device since it is a website and not an app.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here is an interesting post about using it in the classroom.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How to Teach With Wordle</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.techlearning.com/how-to/how-to-teach-with-wordle" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.techlearning.com/how-to/how-to-teach-with-wordle</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is a word game, but also requires some logical thinking. There is only one “game” per day. It was recently purchased by the New York Times </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/business/media/new-york-times-wordle.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/business/media/new-york-times-wordle.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here is one of my games</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is no time limit. The online keyboard is used to enter each guess.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My first guess is usually ADIEU as it contains four vowels.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The two letters in gold indicate they are used in the mystery word, but not in those places.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The three letters in gray are not used in the mystery word.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the second line, the three letters in green indicate they are used and in those places.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The H is used in the word, but it is not the first letter, The O is not used.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The third line is a guess using the fact that the last three letters are ARD, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the H has to be used but can’t be in the 1st, third, fourth or fifth letters. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The C was the first five letter word I could think of that ended in HARD</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The S in the fourth line was another word I could think of that ended in HARD</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I didn’t need the fifth and sixth guesses, but that is the limit.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 640px; overflow: hidden; width: 295px;"><img height="640" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/FfBO6Q6exfMc-wacWZSull-R7OXa4MvorhelUJCCvUyIloi2xTZAI4lDkqDHh0-Pdb1JIhSDZi5bMWy5G3H3oLsV6Fg18knQy0ZLhqY187iv7liROlsY1o7DI_GBSpEwChCXDYZo" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="295" /></span></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="display: inline-block; position: relative; width: 100px;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mastermind</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Guess the color of hidden pegs. A deduction game where each player takes turns making a limited number of guesses, using logic to deduce what pegs the opponent has hidden.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The idea of the game is for one player (the code-breaker) to guess the secret code chosen by the other player (the code-maker). The code is a sequence of 4 colored pegs chosen from six colors available. The code-breaker makes a serie of pattern guesses - after each guess the code-maker gives feedback in the form of 2 numbers, the number of pegs that are of the right color and in the correct position, and the number of pegs that are of the correct color but not in the correct position - these numbers are usually represented by small black and white pegs.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span> </span>Wikipedia</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One player secretly puts four colored pegs in the spaces behind a screen at once end of the game board. The other player, the code breaker, makes a series of guesses. After each guess, the code maker uses smaller pegs to tell the code breaker if their guessed pegs are the right color and in the right place, are the right color but the wrong place, or are the wrong color entirely. The code breaker makes another guess in the next row, building upon information from previous guesses, trying to match the pegs the code maker hid at the beginning of the game.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2392/mastermind</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Play online</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://webgamesonline.com/mastermind/index.php</span></p><br /></span>cnansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632347136116233161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538224670689986042.post-72461266004969205992020-12-22T13:08:00.006-08:002020-12-22T13:25:11.791-08:00Resources for History Teachers - from my Diigo account<p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><a href="http://objectofhistory.org" style="display: block; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: -8px; margin-top: 8px;" target="_blank">The Object of History | Behind the Scenes with the Curators of the National Museum of American History</a></p>
<p><a href="http://objectofhistory.org" style="font-size: 12px;" target="_blank">http://objectofhistory.org</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><a href="https://worldhistorymatters.org" style="display: block; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: -8px; margin-top: 8px;" target="_blank">World History Matters » A Portal to World History Sites from the Center for History and New Media</a></p>
<p><a href="https://worldhistorymatters.org" style="font-size: 12px;" target="_blank">https://worldhistorymatters.org</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><a href="http://historymatters.gmu.edu" style="display: block; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: -8px; margin-top: 8px;" target="_blank">History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web</a></p>
<p><a href="http://historymatters.gmu.edu" style="font-size: 12px;" target="_blank">http://historymatters.gmu.edu</a></p>
<p>Designed for teachers and students at the high school and college levels, History Matters is a gateway site to Web-based materials about United States history. A search engine, as well as broad topical links, provide access to primary documents, images, a</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><a href="https://teachinghistory.org" style="display: block; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: -8px; margin-top: 8px;" target="_blank">Teaching History</a></p>
<p><a href="https://teachinghistory.org" style="font-size: 12px;" target="_blank">https://teachinghistory.org</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><a href="https://911digitalarchive.org" style="display: block; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: -8px; margin-top: 8px;" target="_blank">Home · September 11 Digital Archive</a></p>
<p><a href="https://911digitalarchive.org" style="font-size: 12px;" target="_blank">https://911digitalarchive.org</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><a href="https://wardepartmentpapers.org/s/home/page/home" style="display: block; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: -8px; margin-top: 8px;" target="_blank">Papers of the War Department · Home · Papers of the War Department</a></p>
<p><a href="https://wardepartmentpapers.org/s/home/page/home" style="font-size: 12px;" target="_blank">https://wardepartmentpapers.org/s/home/page/home</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><a href="http://hnn.us" style="display: block; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: -8px; margin-top: 8px;" target="_blank">History News Network</a></p>
<p><a href="http://hnn.us" style="font-size: 12px;" target="_blank">http://hnn.us</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s" style="display: block; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: -8px; margin-top: 8px;" target="_blank">(91) US History - Crash Course YouTube</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s" style="font-size: 12px;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/USNationalArchives" style="display: block; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: -8px; margin-top: 8px;" target="_blank">US National Archives Channel</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/USNationalArchives" style="font-size: 12px;" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/USNationalArchives</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/historicaltweet?lang=en" style="font-size: 12px;" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/historicaltweet?lang=en</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><a href="http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides/Education/US-History.html" style="display: block; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: -8px; margin-top: 8px;" target="_blank">U.S. History: Resources for Students, Teachers and Researchers</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides/Education/US-History.html" style="font-size: 12px;" target="_blank">http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides/Education/US-History.html</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/thirteen-colonies" style="font-size: 12px;" target="_blank">https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/thirteen-colonies</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?297383-1/span-american-history-tv" style="font-size: 12px;" target="_blank">https://www.c-span.org/video/?297383-1/span-american-history-tv</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.c-span.org/series/?ahtv" style="font-size: 12px;" target="_blank">http://www.c-span.org/series/?ahtv</a></p>
<p>American History TV (AHTV), a “network in a network,” features programming geared toward history lovers with 48 hours every weekend of people and events that document the American story.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><a href="http://www.whowasbookseries.com" style="display: block; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: -8px; margin-top: 8px;" target="_blank">Who HQ</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.whowasbookseries.com" style="font-size: 12px;" target="_blank">http://www.whowasbookseries.com</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><a href="https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/tag/history-social-studies/" style="display: block; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: -8px; margin-top: 8px;" target="_blank">history/social studies | Cult of Pedagogy</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/tag/history-social-studies/" style="font-size: 12px;" target="_blank">https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/tag/history-social-studies/</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers" style="font-size: 12px;" target="_blank">https://news.google.com/newspapers</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov" style="font-size: 12px;" target="_blank">https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://radiooooo.com" style="font-size: 12px;" target="_blank">http://radiooooo.com</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/HistoricalPics?lang=en" style="font-size: 12px;" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/HistoricalPics?lang=en</a></p>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You don’t need to purchase or copy templates to be able to print onto your own sticky notes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can quickly and easily make your own templates using Google Drawings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step one: open a new Google Drawings document.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Step three: select the box (or rectangle), under Format select “Format Options” and then click on the “Size and Position” and change the width and height to match the size of the sticky note you plan to use. I used 3” x 3” in this example.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Step four: Make sure you have a border on the box - we want the box to print so we can make a template to use later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Step five: select the box and “Duplicate” it from the “Edit” menu, or type Command-D.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Step six: move the new box anywhere you want on the page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Step ten: Going back to your Google Drawings, add whatever content you want to each of the boxes. I have used QR Codes in my example. When you print again these will print exactly where the boxes are on the template you are running through - except the sticky notes are there instead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I got the idea for making my own “sticky notes” templates from Tony Vincent and Matt Miller. They both used Google Slides. I have always wondered why they prefer Google Slides over Google Drawings. The only reason I can think of is that you can have multiple slides in one “document” using Google Slides instead of individual drawings. Is there any other reason to use Slides over Drawings?</span></div>
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cnansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632347136116233161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538224670689986042.post-19767426836016191662018-06-04T16:25:00.004-07:002018-06-05T09:46:47.512-07:00How to save your favorite tweets in TwitterHow do you handle saving and later finding Tweets that you want to follow up on?<br />
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What I do is to click on the "like" or "favorite" icon.<br />
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But, I have close to 4,000 likes on Twitter and it is almost impossible to find older likes using the regular Twitter site.<br />
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I have several different solutions to this problem.<br />
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Using TweetDeck I created a column for my likes. TweetDeck columns have the option to search just that column for any content I am looking for.<br />
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In the example below I am searching all 4,000 of my likes for anything that has the hashtag #GoogleClassroom<br />
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I can also search for all the Tweets I have liked from specific people. In this case I looked for all the Tweets from @jmattmiller that I have liked.<br />
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Another way I manage all the Tweets that I have liked is to use IFTTT (If This Then That) - http://ifttt.com<br />
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I have created several IFTTT Applets that do specific tasks whenever I "like" a Tweet.<br />
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These Applets will take the Tweet that I have liked and a) append the tweet to an Evernote note b) add the Tweet to a new line in a Google Sheet, c) append the tweet to a Google Doc in my Google Drive and d) add a new bookmark to my Diigo account<br />
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This way I can easily copy and past Tweets that I want to share with other. I often copy them into shared documents based on interest for math teachers, language arts teachers, GSFE users, STEM, etc.</div>
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If you haven't used IFTTT before, it is extremely easy to create your own Applets. Basically you just pick and chose what you want to have done.<br />
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Having these links ready before the start of a Twitter Chat could help in chats where the Twitter stream is flowing too fast to really follow.<br />
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Note: In a week these links will be pulling Tweets from the latest Twitter Chat, so these links will no longer be showing the Tweets from this week's chat at the top of the list.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ndedchat%20Q1%20OR%20A1" target="">Tweets about #ndedchat AND (Q1 OR A1)</a><br />
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This finds some of the information about SAMR that wasn't part of the questions and answers<br />
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You can get there by going to <a href="https://twitter.com/search">https://twitter.com/search</a> and clicking on "Advanced Search" or by going to <a href="https://twitter.com/search-advanced">https://twitter.com/search-advanced</a><br />
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I use TweetDeck when I am participating in #edchat, #ndedchat or other active Twitter Chats. I set up multiple columns, each with a specific purpose.<br />
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The main column is searching for all Tweets that contain the hashtag for the Twitter Chat.<br />
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A second column is set to search for the same hashtag, but I use it to find secondary words. It might be "Q1" because I missed the first question by joining late, or it might have passed by without my seeing it. It might be "A1" to find all the (correctly tagged) answers to a specific question. It might be a term you want to search for to follow a side conversation, such as "common core" or "genius time."<br />
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A third column is set up with a list of people whose Tweets I want to pull out of the Twitter stream. In my example, two of the people in my list are the organizers of #ndedchat<br />
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There are times when I might have even more columns open, each devoted to a specific search term that I want to pull out of the stream.<br />
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I always have at least one column open and devoted to the specific hashtags I want to follow, such as #edchat, #commoncore, #mathchat, or #edtech.<br />
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<br />cnansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632347136116233161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538224670689986042.post-69784459335886674462013-07-11T08:36:00.001-07:002013-07-11T09:01:03.344-07:00Why I don't like the Olloclip Lenses for iPhonesNow that I have your attention, I really do like the Olloclip lenses. Just not for use in a school. <a href="https://www.olloclip.com/order/iphone4/">https://www.olloclip.com/order/iphone4/</a><br />
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Bea Cantor's free book on using the Olloclip for macrophotraphy of insects got me intrigued. If you haven't seen her book, take some time to download it to iBooks on your iPad and read it.<br />
Bea Cantor - Calling Nature (Free) - <a href="https://itun.es/i6x72cq">https://itun.es/i6x72cq</a><br />
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The problem with using the Olloclip lenses in school is that they can only be used with the iPhone. You have to order it specifically for the iPhone 4s or the iPhone 5. They are not interchangeable. I have the Olloclip for my iPhone 4s, but it won't work with my wife's iPhone 5. Also, few of our students, especially at the elementary level, have iPhones they can bring to school, and we are not going to purchase iPhones for use by students.<br />
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I have the Olloclip lenses for my iPhone 4s, but prefer to use the Photojojo lenses instead. These are the lenses that I would suggest schools consider purchasing.<br />
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The Photojojo lens kit is less expensive. The list price is $49 vs $69.99 for the Olloclip.<br />
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The Photojojo lens kit can be used on any iPhone, iPad, or Android device. They can also be used on the 4th Generation iPod Touch.<br />
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The Photojojo lens kit can be used on three different iOS devices at the same time, where the Olloclip can only be used on one device at a time.<br />
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Since we are most interested in the maco lens, we can purchase the Wide/macro lens for $20 instead of purchasing the entire lens kit. We just ordered 20 of the Wide/Macro lenses to be used with iPads, iPad Minis and 4th Generation iPod Touch devices.<br />
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The Photojojo lens kit includes a 2X Telephoto lens which is not available with the Olloclip. We ordered five of these lens kits to get the telephoto lens and five more macro lenses.<br />
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If you aren't aware of the Photojojo site, take a look. They are starting a Phoneography 101 course (Note: not an iPhoneography course) August 1st.<br />
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Photojojo University is a 4-week course that teaches you the principles of photography through the lens of your phone. Twice a week you’ll get an email with a simple and fun lesson that ends with a challenge to help you solidify your new skills.<br />
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Whatever you decide to do, take a look at Bea Cantor's book and see how you can use macro-photography in your classroom.<br />
<br />cnansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632347136116233161noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538224670689986042.post-68284553598952039612013-06-27T18:01:00.001-07:002013-06-27T18:04:16.098-07:00What I learned about iPadography (not iPhoneography) during the ISTE 13 Photo WalkDuring the <a href="http://cnansen.blogspot.com/2013/06/reflections-on-photo-walk-at-iste-13.html" target="_blank">ISTE 2013 Photo Walk in San Antonio, TX</a> we met Carlos Austin. He is a professional photographer from Austin, TX who drove to San Antonio just to participate in the photo walk.<br />
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After our walk from the convention center to the Alamo, the 172+ participants started breaking into smaller groups to continue their photo walk. Carlos approached Larry Anderson and myself and offered to guide us around the Alamo grounds and Riverwalk, showing us photo opportunities we would never have found on our own.<br />
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I can't express enough how much Carlos added to our photography experience. He is a natural teacher, and actually teaches an extension photography course through the university in Austin.<br />
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Carlos helping Tony, just as he helped all of us during the day.</div>
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I have not learned so much about photography in a short time since spending three days learning about photography from Vincent Laforet in 2007 at an Apple Distinguished Educator Institute in Monterey Bay, CA. Carlos would watch us make a photo, and then kindly suggest that we try again from a different angle, framing it differently, work with the lighting and shadows, try different exposure settings, etc. I have several before and after photos - before Carlos' suggestions and after his suggestions - that I will use in future workshops. For one photo Carlos had me try it at least six times until I got it right :-)<br />
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Here Carlos is helping Larry with the same photo, and using a reflector to fill in light in the dark areas.</div>
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Even though Carlos came all the way from Austin for the photo walk, all he brought with him was an iPad and tripod. I had not considered the iPad as a serious camera since the iPhone has a better lens and is always with me. In fact, there is a new branch of photography people refer to as iPhoneography but is now considered to be photography from any smart phone. Carlos prefers the iPad as he used some Apps I had never heard of that provide adjustment tools that require the larger screen.<br />
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Here Carlos used the tripod to hold the iPad up closer to the butterflies to make this photo.</div>
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This is the iPad holder he used to attache it to his tripod.</div>
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Some of the Apps Carlos used extensively are PureShot, Hipstamatic, Snapseed, Crop Suez, iwatermark, pixlr express +, PS Touch, Flickstackr, Awesome camera, icolorama, distressedfx, over (text app), mpro, fotor, lensflare, lenslight<br />
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I have been doing iPhoneography workshops for some time, and have collected around 60 Apps I recommend. Only about ten of them are Apps that Carlos uses.<br />
<a href="http://list.ly/cnansen">http://list.ly/cnansen</a><br />
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Here are the Apps Carlos had on his iPad, with prices where I could find them and a link to the App in the iTunes Store. They are grouped in the same way Carlos had them organized in his folders.<br />
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PureShot ($1.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS7nq">http://itun.es/i6xS7nq</a><br />
Hipstamatic ($1.99 - iPhone) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS7nD">http://itun.es/i6xS7nD</a><br />
Hipstamatic Oggl (Free - iPhone) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS7nJ">http://itun.es/i6xS7nJ</a><br />
Snapseed (Free) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xL2mX">http://itun.es/i6xL2mX</a><br />
Crop Suey HD ($1.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS7nx">http://itun.es/i6xS7nx</a><br />
Pixlr Express PLUS (Free) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xL2mq">http://itun.es/i6xL2mq</a><br />
iWatermark (Free, the $1.99 version removes their watermark) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS7n6">http://itun.es/i6xS7n6</a><br />
A Clear Watermark ($1.99, embossed watermark) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS2W9">http://itun.es/i6xS2W9</a><br />
HelloCamera ($1.99) match filters - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS7nS">http://itun.es/i6xS7nS</a><br />
PS Touch - Adobe Photoshop Touch ($9.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xY4Xz">http://itun.es/i6xY4Xz</a><br />
FlickStackr for Flickr ($1.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xL2cQ">http://itun.es/i6xL2cQ</a><br />
Camera Awesome - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xL2cy">http://itun.es/i6xL2cy</a><br />
iColorama - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS7QH">http://itun.es/i6xS7QH</a><br />
Distressed FX ($0.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xL2wX">http://itun.es/i6xL2wX</a><br />
Over ($1.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xY4Xy">http://itun.es/i6xY4Xy</a><br />
MPro ($1.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xY4XC">http://itun.es/i6xY4XC</a><br />
Fotor™ ($2.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xY3Dz">http://itun.es/i6xY3Dz</a><br />
LensFlare ($1.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xY3D4">http://itun.es/i6xY3D4</a><br />
LensLight ($1.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xY3DQ">http://itun.es/i6xY3DQ</a><br />
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iPhoto - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xL2mx">http://itun.es/i6xL2mx</a><br />
Pixlr-o-matic (Free, also a $0.99 version) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xL2mL">http://itun.es/i6xL2mL</a><br />
Photo fx Ultra ($4.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS7nk">http://itun.es/i6xS7nk</a><br />
Adobe Photoshop Express (Free) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS2Wj">http://itun.es/i6xS2Wj</a><br />
Laminar Pro - Image Editor ($0.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS2WD">http://itun.es/i6xS2WD</a><br />
Perfectly Clear ($2.99) – Photo Correction (Automatic) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xY3JX">http://itun.es/i6xY3JX</a><br />
Filterstorm - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS7nK">http://itun.es/i6xS7nK</a><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Filterstorm Pro is $14.99 and is for the iPhone<br />
Jazz! ($0.99) - Edit photos with powerful filters, effects, unlimited vintage - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS2WL">http://itun.es/i6xS2WL</a><br />
TouchRetouch HD ($0.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS7nG">http://itun.es/i6xS7nG</a><br />
Process ($14.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xL2m2">http://itun.es/i6xL2m2</a><br />
Image Blender ($1.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS2Wd">http://itun.es/i6xS2Wd</a><br />
Gridditor ($1.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS7nr">http://itun.es/i6xS7nr</a><br />
PhotoTangler Collage Maker HD - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS7nc">http://itun.es/i6xS7nc</a><br />
Geló ($0.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS2Wp">http://itun.es/i6xS2Wp</a><br />
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Handy Photo® ($1.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS2Ws">http://itun.es/i6xS2Ws</a><br />
PhotoMagic HD ($1.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS2Wb">http://itun.es/i6xS2Wb</a><br />
PuddingCamera (Free) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS2WM">http://itun.es/i6xS2WM</a><br />
Color Lake ($1.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xY3qp">http://itun.es/i6xY3qp</a><br />
Momentsia (Free) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS2Wt">http://itun.es/i6xS2Wt</a><br />
PicsArt Photo Studio (Free) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS7nv">http://itun.es/i6xS7nv</a><br />
PicShop HD - Photo Editor - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS2Wn">http://itun.es/i6xS2Wn</a><br />
FX Photo Studio: pro effects - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS2Wv">http://itun.es/i6xS2Wv</a><br />
PhotoWizard-HD Photo Editor ($2.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xL2mr">http://itun.es/i6xL2mr</a><br />
SubtleColor ($0.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xL2mt">http://itun.es/i6xL2mt</a><br />
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Glaze (Free) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xY3qG">http://itun.es/i6xY3qG</a><br />
Tangled FX ($1.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS2W5">http://itun.es/i6xS2W5</a><br />
Art Set - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xY3qt">http://itun.es/i6xY3qt</a><br />
Repix Inspiring Photo Editor (Free) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS7nQ">http://itun.es/i6xS7nQ</a><br />
AutoPainter HD ($0.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xY3qc">http://itun.es/i6xY3qc</a><br />
Painteresque ($1.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS2WQ">http://itun.es/i6xS2WQ</a><br />
PhotoViva ($5.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xL2mN">http://itun.es/i6xL2mN</a><br />
PhotoArtistaHD ($1.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xL2mv">http://itun.es/i6xL2mv</a><br />
Etchings ($0.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xY3qN">http://itun.es/i6xY3qN</a><br />
Aquarella HD ($2.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS7NX">http://itun.es/i6xS7NX</a><br />
Flowpaper ($0.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xY3q5">http://itun.es/i6xY3q5</a><br />
My Brushes Pro ($2.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS2Qf">http://itun.es/i6xS2Qf</a><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>MyBrushes (Free) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xY3q4">http://itun.es/i6xY3q4</a><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sketch, Paint, Playback on Unlimited Size Canvas<br />
Mobile Monet HD ($1.99)- Photo Sketch and Paint Effects - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xL2mQ">http://itun.es/i6xL2mQ</a><br />
ArtRage - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xY3qQ">http://itun.es/i6xY3qQ</a><br />
Procreate ($4.99) – Sketch, paint, create. - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS2QT">http://itun.es/i6xS2QT</a><br />
Moku Hanga HD ($2.99) - http://itun.es/i6xS2Qj<br />
ArtStudio ($4.99) - draw, paint and edit photo - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS2QD">http://itun.es/i6xS2QD</a><br />
Deco Sketch - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xY33X">http://itun.es/i6xY33X</a><br />
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An app for an iPhoneography community<br />
Mobitog Community (Free) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xS24W">http://itun.es/i6xS24W</a><br />
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For keeping up with the latest news on mobile device<br />
<a href="http://mobitog.com/">http://Mobitog.com</a><br />
<a href="http://theappwhisperer.com/">http://theappwhisperer.com</a><br />
<a href="http://lifeinlofi.com/">http://lifeinlofi.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://lifeinlofi.com/photo-apps-on-sale/">http://lifeinlofi.com/photo-apps-on-sale/</a><br />
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Not essential for photography, but for planning<br />
Radar Cast Pro ($1.99) to check the weather - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xY3fn">http://itun.es/i6xY3fn</a><br />
LightTrac ($4.99) - <a href="http://itun.es/i6xY4Xn">http://itun.es/i6xY4Xn</a><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to see where the light (sun, moon) will be coming from<br />
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A portable light source Carlos had with: CN-160 video light<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Neewer%C2%AE-CN-160-camera-video-light/dp/B004TJ6JH6">http://www.amazon.com/Neewer%C2%AE-CN-160-camera-video-light/dp/B004TJ6JH6</a><br />
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Austin Photography<br />
Carlos Austin<br />
Austin Tx 78748<br />
<a href="http://austinphotography.com/">http://austinphotography.com/</a><br />
Info@autinphotography<br />
512.292.9832<br />
<br />cnansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632347136116233161noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538224670689986042.post-52144893841964392882013-06-27T12:00:00.000-07:002013-06-28T16:32:13.386-07:00Reflections on the Photo Walk at ISTE 13 The <a href="http://bit.ly/istephotowalk" target="_blank">ISTE 2013 Photo Walk</a> Sunday morning was enjoyed by 172 (or more) ISTE members. After a group photo at the convention center, the group walked to the Alamo where a second group photo was taken, making photos and connecting with other ISTE members on the way. After the group photo people broke into smaller groups and continued their photo walk, some staying around the Alamo and others headed for the Riverwalk. Some people headed back to the convention center for 8:30 am sessions.<br />
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Participants were encouraged to post their favorite photos to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/iste13photowalk">http://www.flickr.com/groups/iste13photowalk</a> where you can view them. Participants were asked to give permission using Creative Commons so that educators and students could use them in their presentations, projects and reports.<br />
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Organized by ADEs (Apple Distinguished Educators) Larry Anderson, Gordon Worley, Cristina Popescu, Anna Adams, Helen Mowers, Michael Hernandez, Gayle Berthiaume and myself, this was the first time the ADE event was opened to all ISTE members. Previous events have been held during ISTE in Washington D.C., Denver (Rocky Mountain National Park), Philadelphia and San Diego.<br />
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All the feedback we have received about this year's event was extremely positive, most coming in the form of verbal comments or via Twitter using the hashtag <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23iste13photo" target="_blank">#iste13photo</a>.<br />
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One group, including Larry Anderson, Nia Ujamaa, David Warlick, Carlos Austin, Tony Baldasaro and myself went until the afternoon, some of us making photos until 4 pm.<br />
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The concept behind the photo walk was to get ISTE members who have an interest in photography together to meet each other and share their passion and photography skills. Participants were helping each other with their camera features as well has ideas on photo composition, handling lighting conditions, etc. Everyone was encouraged to add their best photos to Flickr at <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/iste13photowalk" target="_blank">http://flickr.com/groups/iste13photowalk</a>.<br />
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While at the Alamo several of us ended up give a short 10 minute presentation to a group of spectators after they noticed us using macro lenses attached to our iPhones to make a photo of a flower with a bee inside.<br />
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Tony Baldasaro, who had a Canon camera with a to-die-for telephoto lens, struck up a conversation with Larry and ended up joining our group as we were leaving the Alamo.<br />
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Carlos is a professional photographer from Austin, TX (yep, Carlos Austin from Austin) who drove to San Antonio just to join the Photo Walk. In another blog post I will talk about all we learned from Carlos, including how he used the iPad as his only camera on this photo walk. Tony mentioned that his wife was going to regret him joining our group as he made a list of all the new "stuff" he was planning to get for use with his iPhone and iPad.<br />
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Tuesday afternoon Larry and I presented to a packed breakout session about Photo Safaris and how they could be replicated to people's own cities, schools and classrooms. A photo safari is more structured than a photo walk, breaking people into smaller groups with a knowledgeable photographer in each group who can help others improve their skills. Several educators stopped afterwards to tell us how exited they were to get their own students interested in photography through the use of a photo walk or photo safari.<br />
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Larry has published a free e-book on how to organize your own photo safari. It can be downloaded by going to <a href="http://nctp.com/photosafari/">http://nctp.com/photosafari/</a><br />
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If you will be at ISTE 2014 in Atlanta, consider participating in the photo walk Sunday morning. We have already started planning for it! Contact Larry or me and we will keep you posted as planning progresses.<br />
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Craig Nansen<br />
craig.nansen@gmail.com<br />
@cnansen on Twittercnansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632347136116233161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538224670689986042.post-25052514540997250052013-02-05T17:16:00.002-08:002013-02-25T17:08:20.721-08:00Our Tech Enhanced Trip from ND to DenverBack in the "good old days" a 12 hour drive from Minot, ND to Denver, CO involved intermittent AM radio stations, some reading material (for the passengers), and conversation when the passenger(s) were awake.<br />
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How things have changed.<br />
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This past Thanksgiving my wife and I drove to Denver, but with some technology to enhance the trip.<br />
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Before leaving, we loaded our iPods with music and podcasts to listen to. We also added a few movies and books to our iPads.<br />
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As we left our house I turned on my Trackster, a GPS device that recorded our location every 30 seconds during the trip. Once we got back home I was able to download the data to a Google Map that showed the exact path we took and where we were every minute during the drive down and back. It showed exactly how long each stop for gas or food took.<br />
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We had satellite radio to listen to the entire trip. No dead spots along the way where there wasn't any radio reception.<br />
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We had our Garmin GPS along, but we didn't need that until we got near Denver. Instead we used GPS software (MotionX Drive) on our iPhones to track where we were, especially when we hit the spots in SD and Wyoming where it was 80 miles between gas stations.<br />
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Our Honda Pilot was able to tell us our gas milage, and expected range on the remaining gas.<br />
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As we pulled into Spearfish, SD we used the Around Me App to find a gas station and a place to get a latte.<br />
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My wife was able to keep in constant contact with our daughter in Minot and our son in Denver. When were didn't have good cell signal, texting still worked fairly well.<br />
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While we were in Denver we used our iPhones to take pictures and video of our granddaughter, son and daughter-in-law. I brought along a good DSLR camera so we could get some good photos, but our iPhones were always ready when there was a photo opportunity.<br />
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We were able to post pictures to Facebook and Google+ to share with family and friends. I was able to keep in contact with Twitter to find out what was happening in the tech world when we had down time back at our hotel at the end of the day.<br />
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Using my iPad we were able to connect to my computer back in Minot, ND which had a eyeTV tuner and watch the local news<br />
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We were able to Face Time with our granddaughters back in Minot, and they could see their 9 month old cousin.<br />
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On our way back, the roads in the Black Hills area were bad, and our daughter and son-in-law were tracking us using Find My Friends on their iPhones.<br />
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Like I said, things have changed...<br />
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<br />cnansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632347136116233161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538224670689986042.post-67988989257305738302013-02-04T18:05:00.002-08:002017-11-30T13:19:24.891-08:00Drinking from a fire hoseTrying to get information from the Internet using tools like Twitter, Diigo, Google+, and blogs is like trying to take a drink from a fire hose. You can only take a little bit at a time and most of it goes right on by. This is reality.<br />
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A real life example would be going to an evening social event at an educational conference with a large group of people from your own grade level or subject area. You can't be part of every conversation taking place in the room. There might be some real interesting conversations going on across the room that you aren't part of. And when you decide it is time to leave and get to bed, the conversations may still be going on and you will be missing out on them.<br />
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In Twitter the conversations are taking place under different hashtags and they are never ending. You can only take part in some of them - when you have time, have an interest in the hashtag, topic or discussion, and it is convenient for you.<br />
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Another example would be walking into a library or bookstore and being overwhelmed by the books, magazines, newspapers, and other resources. You can't possibly read or browse through them all. We have learned to manage this situation though - we only go to the library or book store when we have time and it is convenient. When we go to the library or bookstore we are usually looking for something specific and we go right to the sections that we have an interest in. When I go to the bookstore, I am usually just browsing for something interesting, again in an area I am interested in, but not really knowing what I am looking for. If I need specific information there are people that I can ask for help. With Twitter I can post a question to other math teachers (#mathchat) or social studies teachers (#sschat) or elementary teachers (#elemchat) and hundreds (or thousands) of educators may be exposed to that questions.<br />
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One more example is going to the supermarket. This would pertain to when you are looking for something particular. There are thousands of food items found in many different isles. Some people head for the produce section while others avoid it. Some people head for the meat counter or dairy products, some to the chips and candy isle. It all depends on what you are looking for. In education, people search specific hashtags (#edchat, #4thchat, #mathchat) for things they are interested in.<br />
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This is how you need to handle the information coming at your from Twitter and other online resources. Don't feel you have to check every day or read everything you come across. Check Twitter when you have time and when it is convenient. Use Google Search when there is something specific you need to find information about.<br />
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I might go days at a time (or even a week or more) without checking Twitter. I check it when I have time, and when it is convenient. This is usually in the evenings when I am watching TV, checking during commercial breaks. And like in the library or bookstore, I just look for things I have an interest in, and when I find something of interest, I don't feel I have to read it immediately. I bookmark it in Diigo to check on when I have time or I might pass it on to someone who I know would be interested in it.cnansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632347136116233161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538224670689986042.post-10479874831357743152009-12-20T08:00:00.000-08:002019-04-21T12:31:46.100-07:00A football review game<span style="font-family: inherit;">When I was reading a blog post by The Techno Tiger that describes some good review games, I was reminded of this game I developed over 30 years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">About this time of the year with the Super Bowl coming up, this review game is timely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A question is asked of the team (next student in line for that team). If they answer it correctly they advance the ball 10 yards. If they get it wrong, it’s a fumble and the other team has a chance to answer it and get the ball at that spot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When they get to the end zone they score 6 points. The team can then make up a question and ask the teacher (or the other team). If they stump them they get the extra point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After a touchdown, the other team gets the ball on their own 40 yard line.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The reason we use the 40 is that a fumble on the first few questions does not give the other team a “short field” to work with, and they still need to answer 6 questions to score a touchdown.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Note: Students would often challenge the teacher for the extra point after a touchdown. We would have to study all the small details that students would ask to try and stump us. They learned a lot by digging for those details to come up with their questions.</span></div>
cnansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632347136116233161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538224670689986042.post-17666199500384620122008-03-18T14:28:00.000-07:002013-10-10T11:42:22.080-07:00A Different Way of Handling AUPsA Different Way of Handling AUPs<br />
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Note added on October 10, 2013 : a lot has changed in the past six to seven years, but our AUP hasn't :-)<br />
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Every discussion about Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs) either online or at tech conferences, at some point touches on signed forms or implied consent. In the first case, each student and parent is required to turn in a signed form before the student can access the Internet through the district network. In the second case it is assumed that every parent and child has read the AUP and agreed with it – if not then the parent needs to sign a form requesting their child not have access to the Internet through the district’s network.<br />
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Since the first AUPs were written in the mid 1990’s, the use of the Internet in schools has changed drastically. We don’t have a Macintosh or Windows XP computer in our district that is not connected to the network, and thus to the Internet. Our daily routine is now dependent on the network. When we have network problems, it is a major concern to our teachers and administrators.<br />
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So what do we do with a student who does not have permission to use the Internet, has not returned the required signed form, or has lost the privilege to use the Internet because they violated the AUP? Basically they have lost access to any computer access! And in our district this means that they can’t access the library lookup stations, take our online assessments, complete research and writing assignments, enter data for science experiments, or do a presentation using PowerPoint or Keynote. In some classes, such as keyboarding, word processing, accounting, web design, and photography they couldn’t complete a many assignments.<br />
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Asking teachers to create alternative assignments and the technology department to set up computers that can’t access the Internet puts an extra burden on people who are already busy.<br />
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Networked computers and Internet access are now essential to our curriculum, not some “extra” that we should treat differently than textbooks.<br />
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Last spring I presented our AUP to the school board, but with a new twist. We now treat computer, network and Internet access just as we do a textbook. We no longer ask for a student and parent signature. We do not use “implied consent.” All students will have access to the computers, network and Internet for school and curriculum use. If a parent has concerns about this, they will go through the same procedures as if they had a problem with a textbook or other curriculum material.<br />
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Principals and/or counselors will visit with concerned parents and explain all the uses of the Internet in a school environment and the filters and other types of supervision provided. If the parent still has concerns, a plan may be adopted that will allow the student to have access to those technologies that are absolutely necessary to complete the requirements of the teacher and school.<br />
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Instead of removing all Internet privileges from students who violate the AUP, a similar plan may be put in place for them. Building principals will decide on the consequences for violating the AUP, just as they do for many student acts during the school year. We don’t have a policy prohibiting a student from having a nude centerfold hanging in their locker, yet we still deal with that situation. That is how we deal with inappropriate use of our computers, other technologies, network and the Internet.<br />
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We still publish our Technology, Computer and Network Facilities AUP in the student handbooks, on our school web sites, and make them available to parents.<br />
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Our previous AUP was quite general in nature, was last approved by our school board in 1997, and last year stood up in two separate instances under close scrutiny by lawyers. It was written to cover changing technologies and general use. The only new items we introduced were to cover intentionally bypassing the district filter and the taking of digital pictures with phone cameras.<br />
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This is the AUP that was approved by our School Board last spring. (A PDF version can be found at http://tinyurl.com/3d7rm7)<br />
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Technology, Computer and Network Facilities<br />
Acceptable Use Policy<br />
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The Board of Education is committed to the goal of having technology, computers and network facilities used in a responsible, efficient, ethical, educational and legal manner in accordance with the mission of the Minot Public School District.<br />
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Acceptable uses of the network are activities which support teaching and learning. Network users are encouraged to use technology, computers and the Internet for purposes which meet their individual educational needs and take advantage of the computer and network functions;<br />
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Acceptable uses of technology, computers and the network include, but are not limited to;<br />
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•Minot Public School and Minot Public Library online catalogs;<br />
•NWEA MAP testing;<br />
•network file storage;<br />
•word processing and other software;<br />
•electronic mail;<br />
•accessing databases such as Grolier’s Online and ODIN (Online Dakota Information Network);<br />
•accessing Internet resources such as web sites and United Streaming<br />
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Unacceptable uses of computers and the network include, but are not limited to;<br />
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•accessing Internet resources or visiting web sites deemed inappropriate by the staff and administrators of this District;<br />
•violating the privacy rights of students and employees of this District;<br />
•gaining unauthorized access to computer systems or files;<br />
•copying print, software, music or video for use in violation of copyright law;<br />
•inappropriate content in e-mail, other documents or online postings;<br />
•using profanity, obscenity, or other language which may be offensive to another user;<br />
•using the network for financial gain or for intentionally spreading computer viruses;<br />
•downloading, storing, or printing graphics, videos, files or messages that are profane, obscene, or that use language that offends or tends to degrade others;<br />
•taking and/or publishing digital images that are inappropriate, embarrassing or harassing to other students or MPS employees;<br />
•intentionally bypassing the state-wide and/or district-based Internet filters;<br />
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cnansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632347136116233161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538224670689986042.post-11112283247098342942008-01-09T14:30:00.000-08:002013-10-10T11:33:15.847-07:00Favorite Podcasts<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16.796875px; text-align: justify;">I responded to a post on a listserv, and thought it was worthwhile posting to my blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">> Techie:</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">> Specifically Mac:</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">> Specifically Windows:</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">> Just for Fun:</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">> Anything Else:</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">> All opinions are appreciated! Thanks in advance!</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16.796875px; text-align: justify;">I did a presentation this fall on Podcasting at the Great Plains Technology Conference in Fargo. The online handout, with educational, technology and personal interest podcasts can be found at:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I recently co-authored, with Camilla Gagliolo, the first of what we hope to be an ongoing series in the ISTE <em><a href="http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Publications/LL/Current_Issue/L_L_December_January_2007_2008.htm" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;">Learning and Leading with Technology</a></em> magazine (Dec/Jan 07/08 issue). This article is titled “Get CNN Student News via Video Podcast.” One of the interesting things about this article is that Camilla and I had never met face to face until the article was almost complete. Everything was done online using some e-mail but mostly a wiki where we could both make comments, additions and changes. We did meet face-to-face for the first time at NECC in Atlanta, and again at the Apple ADE Institute in Monterey, CA. We are both ADEs, class of 2007, and first connected through a listserv because of a common interest in the use of podcasts in the classroom. We continue to collaborate on future articles, but it has been six months since we completed the first one and don’t have another one ready yet – just not enough time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">My current favorites that I listen to whenever they post a new episode are This Week in Tech, Mac OS Ken, The Tech Chick Tips (two teachers in Texas), net@nite and Webnation (with Amber MacArthur), KidCast – Learning and Teaching with Podcasting, Connected Learning with David Warlick, and The Savvy Technologist (a tech coordinator from Minnesota). Even if some of these (like Kidcast, Savvy Technologist and Connected Learning) haven’t been posting new episodes lately, their previous podcasts are very useful.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you haven’t tried the Power Search in the iTunes store (the link is in the upper right hand corner of the page), give it a try. You can limit the search to just Podcasts, and can even narrow it down more to title, author, description and category.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Lucida Grande, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.796875px;">One other great resource to check out is </span></span><a href="http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/collection.php?collectionID=373" style="color: #b85b5a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.796875px; text-decoration: none;">Conference Connections</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Lucida Grande, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.796875px;">. This is an area, produced by a group of Apple Distinguished Educators, that interview many of the keynote presenters and other well know educational technologist at major conferences like NECC.</span></span></span></span></div>
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cnansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632347136116233161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538224670689986042.post-55460526136217563012008-01-09T02:35:00.000-08:002013-10-10T11:35:16.259-07:00iWork Apps – Pages, Keynote, Numbers<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.796875px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I feel very fortunate and exited to be one of a small group of educators invited to meet with the Apple iWork development team next week during MacWorld.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Our district has been very dependent on AppleWorks as our standard suite, including purchasing and running it on Windows computers. I hope that iWork eventually improves upon AppleWorks as a valuable tool and resource for K-12 schools.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">clip art</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">paint program</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">all the draw capabilities found in AW</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Cross platform</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Label printing</span></span></div>
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cnansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632347136116233161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538224670689986042.post-1822236477329893622007-01-17T05:49:00.000-08:002013-10-10T11:40:09.640-07:00CNN Student News - A great classroom resource<a href="http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/" target="_blank">CNN Student News</a> is a great resource for teachers to cover current events. It is a 10 minute, commercial free newscast covering the major news stories from the previous day. This newscast is geared for students. It is broadcast each day, Monday through Friday, at 3:12 am on the CNN Headline News channel.<br />
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We have been promoting the use of CNN Student News in our district for years, with limited success. A small percentage of teachers have been dedicated enough to set their VCRs to record the newcasts on a daily basis. We even set up a VHS recording and duplication system in our district tech office to handle those times when there was a high interest story and teachers who didn’t get it recorded wanted copies.<br />
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Several years ago we purchased a TiVo for the district office so that every episode was recorded onto the DVR and could be easily retrieved on request.<br />
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CNN has now made it much easier for teachers to use CNN Student News – it is available as a <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cnn-student-news-video/id179950332" target="_blank">podcast that can be subscribed to using iTunes</a>.<br />
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Once you subscribe to the CNN Student News podcast, every episode will be automatically downloaded to iTunes (Mac or Windows). You can play it in a small window or full screen (just click on the small video to enlarge it). With a video projector in the classroom, students can easily view the newscast.<br />
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Since it is available as a podcast, it is in digital format. You can pause and start the video by pressing the spacebar. You can also jump to parts of the broadcast by clicking on the “scrubber bar” instead of fast forwarding like you do with a VCR recording. You can archive the MP4 files in case you want to cover a topic later in the school year.<br />
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CNN Student News also provides free curriculum materials to go along with each newscast, from a full written transcript to questions and resources put together by educators. This can be found each day on the CNN Student News web page.<br />
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/" target="_blank">CNN Student News</a><br />
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/studentnews/11/04/sn.how.to/index.html" target="_blank">What is CNN Student News?</a><br />
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/08/13/student.news.how.to/index.html" target="_blank">How to use CNN Student News</a><br />
<a href="http://www.mefeedia.com/feeds/21273/" target="_blank">Archived CNN Student News video</a><br />
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/EDUCATION/" target="_blank">Schools of Thought</a> - CNN's Educational Blog<br />
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Today's episode includes segments on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and fracking, a topic relavent to us in northwest North Dakota. The entire transcript for each episode is available on the CNN Student News site. <<a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1201/17/sn.01.html" target="_blank">Today's transcript</a>> <a href="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2012/images/01/16/youngstown.ohio.charleston.south.carolina..pdf" target="_blank">Maps</a> are often included in the resources.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/16/studentnews/sn-discussion-tue/index.html" target="_blank">Daily Discussion</a> resources for today include these two discussion questions:<br />
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What do you know about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? How was Martin Luther King Day celebrated this past weekend? Did you participate in any events related to the holiday? What do you think young people could learn from Dr. King's life? Explain.<br />
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What is the purpose of hydraulic fracturing, also known as "fracking"? According to the program: What concerns have some people raised with regard to the wastewater from fracking? How have supporters of this practice responded to these concerns? What are your thoughts about this issue?<br />
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cnansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632347136116233161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538224670689986042.post-87340772482681293952006-08-25T14:40:00.000-07:002013-10-10T11:29:39.219-07:00How many planets are there?<span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Lucida Grande, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 16.796875px;">Many of you know that I promote Wikipedia as a useful resource for staff and students. Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia in electronic, online or print form.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">There are several advantages to using Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org) in the classroom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1) It is available anywhere you have an Internet connection. You are not limited to a few sets of encyclopedias located around the school building.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2) It has a lot of information that you would not find in a print version such as World Book. Ex: information about Zip to Zap (North Dakota) on May 10, 1969.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Below is information taken from Wikipedia about Pluto. This is accurate information based on a decision made yesterday and reported in the newspaper this morning. This information will not be found in a print version of an encyclopedia for many years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Officially, as of 2006, there are <strong>eight planets</strong> in our solar system. In increasing distance from the Sun they are (with the astronomical symbol in brackets and their natural satellites):</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;">1. Mercury with no confirmed natural satellites</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">2. Venus with no confirmed natural satellites</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">3. Earth with one confirmed natural satellite, the Moon</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">4. Mars with two confirmed natural satellites, Phobos and Deimos</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">5. Jupiter with sixty-three confirmed natural satellites</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">6. Saturn with fifty-six confirmed natural satellites</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">7. Uranus with twenty-seven confirmed natural satellites</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">8. Neptune with thirteen confirmed natural satellites</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">CNN Student News is a 10 minute news program designed for schools and is broadcast every weekday morning at 3:12 am EST. They also put a video of the broadcast on their website so that you can watch it (and even project it for your classroom to see) if you didn’t get it recorded.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The transcript of the broadcast can be found at http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/08/24/transcript.fri/index.html You can subscribe to the CNN Student News update and get an e-mail each morning describing the content of the day’s broadcast.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">From their web site: CNN Student News is a 10-minute, commercial-free news program that airs on CNN Headline News at 3:12 a.m. EST as well as on CNN.com/EDUCATION. Created by a team of journalists and educators, the program provides the top stories of the day, segments that encourage student participation, and in-depth special reports. In addition, CNN Student News provides free curriculum at CNN.com/EDUCATION to accompany each program’s content. CNN Student News, along with CNN Presents: Classroom Edition, is Turner’s contribution to Cable in the Classroom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Another resource to follow up on this topic is United Streaming. Search on Pluto or Planets to find streaming video clips that you might want to use in class. This is truly “video on demand.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Last week Microsoft had a conference call with four “Macintosh” schools across the United States concerning the purchase or licensing of Windows XP for these machines. The representatives from Microsoft wanted to know how many of our schools would want to have computers capable of running both platforms. The answer from all four schools was unanimous – we are all interested in having computers, especially in labs and laptop carts, capable of being used in this manner. One hour the room is used as a Windows XP lab, the next hour it could be used as a Macintosh OS X lab.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Discussions are also taking place inside Microsoft about the possibility of licensing MS Office so that both the Windows and Mac OS X versions can be installed on the same computer under one license. This would make it even more beneficial to having a dual boot computer lab in a middle school or high school.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Mac OS is currently a qualifying OS for purchasing the Windows Upgrade License. The introduction of Apple’s “Boot Camp” does not change the implications of enrolling in volume licensing with a Mac OS.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Upgrading to Windows from a Mac OS in Volume Licensing does not prohibit the customer from continuing to use their Mac OS. Essentially “Boot Camp” lets a Mac user run licensed copies of Windows natively on the hardware. Before Boot Camp, Mac users had to run Windows in a virtual environment using VPC for the Mac. Customers are now able to partition their hardware and keep Mac OS in one and Windows OS in the other. At machine startup, they can choose to run the Mac OS or the Windows OS, but not both at the same time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Regarding upgrade VS full bits……..though we have moved to the standard process of providing only upgrade bits in our VL kits, VL customers still have the right to request and obtain full Windows OS bits for and deployment either through free download or purchase through their Microsoft reseller.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In <a href="http://www.minot.k12.nd.us/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;">our district</a> we already have two iMac computers that are set up to dual boot into Mac OS 10.4 or Windows XP. You make the choice during startup.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">We are already talking about purchasing Intel based iMacs to put into all our computer labs, no matter if they are Mac or Windows labs. This will give us the flexibility to use either platform and any software in every lab, rather than having Mac labs and Windows labs across the hall from each other. The only downside is that we will have to purchase Windows XP for each computer.</span></span></div>
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cnansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632347136116233161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538224670689986042.post-53782790041363021162006-02-19T14:49:00.000-08:002013-10-10T11:22:10.500-07:00Preparing for the industrial ageI am sure that you have heard the following quotes. These are often used in presentations to make the point that many educators are not using technology to improve their instruction or the learning that takes place in their classroom.<br />
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“We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.”<br />
A.C. Clark<br />
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It is easier to change the location of a cemetery than to change the curriculum.<br />
Woodrow Wilson<br />
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Be concerned about the future<br />
You’ll spend the rest of your life there!<br />
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Too many teachers teach the way they were taught.<br />
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We live in an technology age using an agricultural calendar and an education model from the industrial age.<br />
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<a href="http://landmark-project.com/" target="_blank">David Warlick</a> just <a href="http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2006/02/16/happy-birthday-jude/" target="_blank">added a new quote to this list of classics</a>. This is a quote that I wish a lot of educational leaders and those who create laws like “No Child Left Behind” would take time to think about.<br />
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No generation in history has ever been so thoroughly prepared for the industrial age.<br />
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Thanks to <a href="http://www.eschoolnews.com/eti/contributors/wrichardson.php" target="_blank">Will Richardson</a> for <a href="http://www.weblogg-ed.com/2006/02/17#a4713" target="_blank">pointing out this quote</a> in his blog. I had read David’s post, but got hung up in the numbers that he was throwing out and missed the quote at the end.<br />
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BTW – I have many more quotes dealing with technology and education <a href="http://www.minot.k12.nd.us/nansen" target="_blank">on my personal web site</a>. And you will find David’s quote there by tomorrow, at the top of the list!<br />
<br />cnansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632347136116233161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538224670689986042.post-15628810513645520272006-02-16T14:50:00.000-08:002013-10-10T09:02:21.823-07:00Internet Safety for Kids<span style="font-size: x-small;">This was a question posted to a national technology listserv and my response to that listserv.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">>Can anyone assist me in finding resources and/or presentors</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Most of the schools in North Dakota use i-SAFE and we are very pleased with it. Our state has regional technology support staff through an organization called EduTech. They are trained in the i-SAFE curriculum and do staff development in schools across the state on request. (They do staff development on a lot of other technology topics also.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">On our January staff inservice day Alicia Eslinger, one of their regional technologists, did a 1 hour presentation to our entire staff on i-SAFE and it was very well received.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">BTW – iSAFE is totally free, funded by federal grants and other contributions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">It isn’t just MySpace.com that we need to be concerned about, it is any web site that students tend to use. The predators, scam artists, etc. will follow. We need to teach students safe, appropriate use of the Internet rather than just block them from these sites.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">We block MySpace.com and Xanga.com to keep kids from reading and posting during the school day, but you can’t stop them from posting when they are at home, and you can’t enforce school discipline on them for what they post at home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">You need to make the parents aware, as they often know far less about the Internet than their children and have know idea what they are putting online. But again, this has to be more general than just about MySpace.com and Xanga.com and …</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">If you do have instances of bullying, threats, rumors, etc. you can still bring the students in and talk to them, counsel them, call the parents, or get the local law enforcement involved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Like any program, just like any textbook, I feel that you need to pick and choose. There are other very good resources out there that supplement/complement iSAFE.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Wired Safety</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.wiredsafety.org/</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">http://csriu.org/index.html</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Playing it Safe</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">A webquest about Internet Safety for 6th Grade Computer Literacy</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">http://coe.nevada.edu/slefevre/playsafe.html</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">NetSmartz Workshop</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.netsmartz.org/</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">SafeKids.com</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.safekids.com/</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">CyberAngels</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.cyberangels.org/</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">FBI Publications – A Parent’s Guide to Internet Safety</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.fbi.gov/publications/pguide/pguidee.htm</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Police Notebook – Kid Safety on the Internet</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.ou.edu/oupd/kidsafe/start.htm</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">KidsCom – Tips for Internet Safety and good manners!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.kidscom.com/games/isg/isg.html</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I keep links to many internet safety sites on my furl list – filter by topic on “Internet Safety”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">And I made many of the resources from the NBC To Catch a Predator III site available to our staff under “Technology Department Documents” using our School Center web server. (Please don’t rag on me about copyright issues – I shouldn’t be sharing this site with you, it was just meant for our district teaching staff)</span><br />
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cnansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632347136116233161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538224670689986042.post-7734145888214630682006-02-14T14:51:00.000-08:002013-10-10T08:52:27.029-07:00Concerns about student info on the web<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16.796875px; text-align: justify;">Schools and parents around the country are becoming concerned about the information that students are posting on web sites such as MySpace.com. The recent documentaries by NBC Dateline “</span><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10912603/" style="background-color: white; color: #b85b5a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 16.796875px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;">To Catch a Predator III</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16.796875px; text-align: justify;">” and “</span><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11049450/#060126b" style="background-color: white; color: #b85b5a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 16.796875px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;">Why parents must mind MySpac</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16.796875px; text-align: justify;">e” have contributed to this concern .</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Our district recently had a presentation about the <a href="http://www.isafe.org/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;">iSafe</a> program which included information about <a href="http://www.myspace.com/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;">MySpace.com</a> and the information that our students were putting online. Full names, age, grade, school, interests such as sports and activities, etc. Even photos. One example was a photo of a girl in her volleyball uniform with number and school prominently displayed. A lot of information for a predator to be able to use to make initial contact with the student.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This presentation raised the level of concern of our staff members, many of whom are parents of teens.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">But what about other information that is being placed on the web about our students?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">One of the articles recently highlighted in the <a href="http://www.eschoolnews.com/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;">eSchoolNews.com</a>“Around the Web” section was about a music teacher using podcasting in an elementary music class. <em><a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20060210-9999-m1m10tfcval.html" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;">Music teacher adds podcasting to curriculum</a></em> is a very interesting article and it should attract a lot of readers interested in the use of podcasting in education.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">What concerns me is that the online article includes a photograph of the teacher and two elementary students with full names and ages. Earlier in the article the elementary school is identified.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">What about our school web sites that have photos of athletes in uniform with their name, grade and position. The school and city, often with phone numbers, are included on the home page of the site. Many schools honor the student of the month with a full “head and shoulders” photo along with the full name and grade.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Is the information that is being posted on MySpace.com really that dangerous? Are our newspapers and school sites just as bad as MySpace.com? Or even worse, because the newspapers and schools are putting the information out about our students where the students themselves are responsible for what they put out on MySpace.com?</span></span></div>
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cnansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632347136116233161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538224670689986042.post-36258736688443108252005-07-04T14:20:00.000-07:002013-10-10T08:50:20.968-07:00ArcExplorer – A GIS Solution for K-12<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: justify;">While at NECC I stopped by the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="http://www.esri.com/" style="color: #b85b5a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;">ESRI</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: justify;">booth as one of my goals for the past several years has been to put their</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS" style="color: #b85b5a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;">GIS</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: justify;">(Geographic Information System) product</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="http://www.esri.com/arcview/" style="color: #b85b5a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;">ArcView</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: justify;">to use. We have sent several classroom teachers and even one of our tech staff to training but have never gotten to the point of adding our own district data.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">What I found was a new (at least to me) product – <a href="http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/about/overview.html" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;">ArcExplorer</a> – which is available for free! It doesn’t do everything that ArcView will, but it looks to be the perfect solution (and price) for schools. You can download the program and datafiles to use with it from their site.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">You can enter data points by putting in longitude and latitude (ArcView will let you enter the street address) so you can plot the home address of your students or sample points for water quality tests.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This is another reason (or excuse) to purchase an inexpensive handheld <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/GPS" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;">GPS</a> navigator such as the <a href="http://www.garmin.com/products/etrex/productShowcase/flash_content/index.html" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;">Garmin eTrex</a>. The first reason many schools purchase handheld GPS navigators is <a href="http://www.geocaching.com/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;">geocaching</a>. <a href="http://www.eschoolnews.com/eti/contributors/twilson.php" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;">Tim Wilson</a> posted about a <a href="http://technosavvy.org/?p=226" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;">geocaching workshop</a> he attending at <a href="http://www.bismarckstate.com/cce/tnt/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;">TNT</a> this spring.</span></span></div>
cnansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632347136116233161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538224670689986042.post-84227075525848571162005-06-28T14:25:00.000-07:002013-10-10T08:48:52.303-07:00Bernie Dodge – QuestGarden – WOW!Being a WebQuest and Bernie Dodge fan, I couldn’t pass up his session today (Tuesday) at 11:00 am. Not only was the session better than expected, Bernie blew the doors off the creation of WebQuests with the introduction of his new tool, QuestGarden. QuestGarden is where WebQuests can be grown and nurished.<br />
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Bernie’s new tool will be available September 1st and will be free for the first year. After that the cost will be $20 for a two year subscription to help him with the cost of the servers, etc.<br />
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The tool seems to combine the advantages of a blog (ease of use, template driven), a wiki (collaborative development) and development tools (templates, themes and design patterns) built in. A number of different authors can work on the same WebQuest, and it is hosted on his server so that FTP software is not needed. He is also planning on having a graphics library so teachers can easily add graphics to their WebQuests.<br />
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Afterwards I was fortunate enough to have lunch with Bernie and Jennifer Kraft (Minot, ND) at the Reading Market (site of the old Reading Railroad). We discussed the possible implications of his new tool to create resources for our required North Dakota Studies course in grades 4 and 8. The possbile use of Flickr to house pictures based on themes (North Dakota) made sense to us.<br />
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BTW, North Dakota is the only state to have a Broderbund created version of Carmen Sandiego for their state – “Where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego?” – and we are always looking for electronic resources for use in our ND studies courses.<br />
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Here are my notes from his presentation.<br />
Overcoming Obstacles to Quicker WebQuest Creation<br />
Bernie Dodge, PhD<br />
San Diego State University<br />
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In past introduced templates and design patterns to make creation easier. Still takes too long.<br />
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What’s the problem?<br />
What are some partial solutions?<br />
What’s the Grand Perfect Solution?<br />
Q&A<br />
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Blogging provides early warning radar for us. Allows us to find out what is on the mind of students and student teachers.<br />
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Brought up a blog entry on Webquest Frustrations.<br />
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Scared to publish to the Internet in case there were errors.<br />
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I’d like to take one but … takes too much time.<br />
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Survey of WebQuest Authors (WebQuest list)<br />
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N=70 and rising<br />
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Most have 10 or more years of teaching experience, not the youngest teachers.<br />
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Most time (over 4 hours) was spent of finding good web sites to link to. Overall close to 24 hours needed to create a WebQuest.<br />
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What was hard/tedious<br />
Finding good web sites<br />
Mechanics of making the pages<br />
Creating navigation buttons (didn’t use the templates)<br />
Some teachers (college level) do them in html<br />
Making it pretty<br />
Process steps<br />
Scaffolding<br />
Aligning the evalutuation with task, standards<br />
Uploading from home<br />
Not losing pieces<br />
higher-order thinking (some just don’t do it, becomes a worksheet instead of a WebQuest)<br />
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Wishlist<br />
Templates in various forms<br />
Compatibility with Dreamweaver<br />
Library of Images<br />
Flexibility in appearance<br />
WYSIWYG text input<br />
Access to appropriate links<br />
Ability to customize existing WebQuests<br />
Easy image inclusion<br />
Guidance on content for each section<br />
Easy uploading<br />
Access to standards<br />
Cool navigation<br />
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WebQuest Creation<br />
Technical Knowledge<br />
Web Editing<br />
FTP<br />
Aesthetics<br />
Searching<br />
Tedagogical Knowledge<br />
Constructivism<br />
Scaffolding<br />
Higher Level Thinking<br />
Cooperative Learning<br />
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FTP<br />
Change the environment<br />
Use web-based FTP (now people use Fetch or secureFTP (both platforms))<br />
make it broswer based using PHP on the server<br />
Upload for them<br />
Don’t put them online at all<br />
Change the learner<br />
repeated practice on FTP programs<br />
Web Editing<br />
Change the environment<br />
Use browser-based editor<br />
if you don’t know about nView you should (nvu.com – what composer has become)<br />
Use Word or Powerpoint (has potential)<br />
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Change the learner<br />
Searching<br />
Provided links to appropriate resources<br />
Farm it out to the experts (librarians)<br />
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eMINTS<br />
eThemes (900 of them so far)<br />
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/index.shtml<br />
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Aesthetics<br />
Provide templates preselected to be purty<br />
change the learner<br />
ignore it &* pay a price<br />
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Pedagogical Knowledge<br />
Change the environment<br />
Provide templates preselected to engage higher level thinking<br />
Design Patterns on his web site (only 5 of 70 had used a template)<br />
Can cut in half the time needed to create a WebQuest<br />
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/designpatterns/all.thm<br />
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Authoring Tools<br />
Instant WebQuest<br />
sounds like “Instant Successful Marriage” :-)<br />
TeacherWeb (www.teacherweb.com)<br />
A little bit of scaffolding<br />
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Beyond Authoring Tools: Authoring Environments<br />
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Now uses PHP and mySQL since Hypercard disappeared.<br />
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Metcalfe’s Law displayed from WikiPedia<br />
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QuestGarden<br />
A place in which great WebQuests will be grown<br />
Place that is scaffolded<br />
Sharing knowledge and guidance is part of the game<br />
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Get a work space<br />
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All the steps are in a menu bar down the right hand side.<br />
One is a link to design patterns<br />
Showed an example on UFOs with the goal to evaluation credability of sources<br />
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Can have more than one author, so there can be collaboration<br />
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Features<br />
Step-by-step prompted guidance on creating a<br />
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WYSIWYG text fomratting<br />
Ability to upload pictures and supplementeary files<br />
Scaffolding extras built in<br />
Based on Design Patterns<br />
Ability to download someone else’s WebQeust into your space and tweak it<br />
Can be soted on site or exported to any other site<br />
Style sheets control the fonts<br />
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Now beta tested by over 300 participants<br />
Available for all on September 1 (1st day of school in Russia)<br />
Free for a full year – until September 1, 2006<br />
$20 for a 2 year subscription after that<br />
http://webquest.sdsu.educnansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632347136116233161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538224670689986042.post-72667001505384370612005-06-28T14:24:00.001-07:002023-03-22T09:27:09.010-07:00Tuesday afternoon/evening at NECCThe afternoon started out great, visiting during lunch with Bernie Dodge about his new <a href="http://webquest.sdsu.edu/">WebQuest</a> creation tool, QuestGarden.<br /><br /> After that it was off to the vendors, where there was a ton of new products, updates to exisiting products, and just good information. Too much to absorb at one time. I will have a special post just on the product info I picked up at NECC. <br /><br /> Then off to a session on <a href="http://www.moodle.org/">Moodle</a>, an open source product for producing online course content. It is a direct competitor to Blackboard and WebCT (both of which I have used) but it is free! The room was packed to overflowing, and they tried to keep late attendees out but they were willing to stand in the back of the room or sit on the floor. <br /><br /> I have used Moodle, and plan to use it more in the future. The local university that I teach for online requires WebCT, but …. <br /><br /> From there it was off to the business meeting for the ISTE SIGTC meeting (Special Interest Group for Technology Coordinators). <br /><br /> Then I went to a special evening event sponsored by <a href="http://www.clarity-innovations.com/">Clarity Inovations</a>, who are involved with the eSchool News Ed-Tech Insiders blog and the NECC aggregated blog. <a href="http://www.eschoolnews.com/eti/contributors/tprichard.php">Thor Prichard</a> was the host, but <a href="http://www.eschoolnews.com/eti/contributors/sburt.php">Steve Burt</a> and others from Clarity were also there. Several of the Ed-Tech Insiders were there like <a href="http://www.eschoolnews.com/eti/contributors/twilson.php">Tim Wilson</a>, <a href="http://www.eschoolnews.com/eti/contributors/thoffman.php">Tom Hoffman</a>, <a href="http://www.eschoolnews.com/eti/contributors/wrichardson.php">Will Richardson</a>, <a href="http://www.eschoolnews.com/eti/contributors/tlauer.php">Tim Lauer</a>, and <a href="http://www.eschoolnews.com/eti/contributors/cnansen.php">myself</a>. It was a great time meeting these people face to face. <br /><br /> Then it was to a special Podcasting event hosted by Apple Computer at 9:00 pm. We got there early enough so we got a seat, but the room was packed and they had to organized an improptu 2nd session so that everyone that came could get to see the presentation. Imagine that many techno “nerds” in Philadelphia showing up at 9:00 pm to see a presentation on Podcasting… <br /><br /> During the presentation (which was Podcast) they did a quick demo of the latest version of iTunes (Mac or Windows) that can find and automatically download Podcasts of your choosing. <br /><br /> Tim Wilson did a short Podcast afterwards that he is going to post on his blog at Savy Technologist with some really top notch portable equipment. <br /><br /> Then it was a quick visit with a group of “techies” from Grand Forks, ND and then off to the hotel room to update my blogs. <br />
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