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This animation was very easy to make.  Honest.  Try it out yourself at goanimate.com.

I don’t plan on setting my grade 5 students loose on the site for the time being. There are too many bikini-clad characters, bars (of the drinking establishment kind), weapons and the like.  Most entertaining, which, of course, is a tad risky for our ultra-conservative sensibilities.

There is mention on the site, of creating a teacher-friendly version.  I’m hopeful that will happen.

Still, it’s a fun way to hook people, young or old, and the results are pretty professional. I can see it being used at the start of a presentation or lesson.

Another con: Edublogs and Wordpress don’t allow the movies to be embedded properly.  The Firefox browser almost seems to work - but doesn’t.  Internet Explorer just creates an empy box. This issue is discussed in goanimate.com’s forums:

Blogs based on Wordpress do not allow embedding videos. The code that

you pasted got trimmed when you saved your post. Only embedding from

certain sites (like YouTube) can work as a result on EduBlogs. We are

working on our side to contact Wordpress and see if there is a way to

enable that in the future, but for now nothing much we can do. We will

keep you posted if we find any way around this.

So, I faked it.  I took a screenshot of the opening frame, cropped it with Fireworks (similar to PhotoShop) and uploaded it to Edublogs as a picture.  I then made the picture link to the goanimate.com site.

Authored by Nathan Toft. Hosted by Edublogs.

The Ontario Teachers’ Federation (OTF), in partnership with the Educational Computing Organization of Ontario (ECOO), will be presenting two-day workshops which will provide you with a unique opportunity to work hands-on with Will Richardson to develop your skills for the Web 2.0 world.

More information and online registration will be available on the OTF Teaching Matters website at www.teachingmatters.on.ca in early December 2008.

 

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The $100 Laptop
A story about being green and being ethical - “By trying to do the right thing and by designing for the poorest people in the world, we’ve made the greenest laptop in the world. And that’s not just the color!” Great video. via Stephen Downes
tags: laptop, netbooks, $100laptop, digitaldivide

Thanksgiving: Free Software We’re Most [...]

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Sometimes you find someone saying what you have been thinking about. I think the future of higher education is in danger, and I would hate to see the loss of something so precious. Through Stephen Downes wonderful newsletter, OLDaily, which can be linked to here - http://www.downes.ca/, I found David Wiley’s 2008 ELearn presentation - http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/660 - [...]

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Here’s another jam-packed episode!  In this episode you will hear…

students from 5nt teaching you how to:

• build a snowman


• catch a fish


• get grounded


• speak Korean


• make an all-dressed gourmet pizza

Would You Rather?

Results of the junior boys soccer tournament

Information about the Home Children

Video game tips

Comedy Corner

And the world premiere of the song, “How to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich”, composed and performed by the students from 5NT and 5/6JS.

Music used in this episode:

• WW - Greenroom (Podsafe Music Network)


• Metal Futures - Acid XPress

Click to download

Authored by Nathan Toft. Hosted by Edublogs.

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Simonshows.com
A very interesting concept, allowing a variety of media formats to be used in one show. Unfortunately when I browsed through the site I found many shows only used one media format (all text or all video, or just one audio file) instead of a variety. The text was large and centred, which made it [...]

As per the subject line above, I've posted the materials from Bob Regan's presentation in the File Storage Area.  There was one file that was part of the archive (big archive that wouldn't upload on its own), i.e. the Visual Literacy White Paper, that I couldn't extract from the original Archive.  I'll work on posting it as well but for the meantime the rest of the material is now available.

Enjoy

 

d.

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Hi Nathan and Jane,

I have recently been delving into the blog scene for my classroom. I figured I would share as it has our podcasts posted there, as well as some other resources for parents and educators. It is a work in progress, but I am happy with the ease of creation and editing that Blogger has to offer! The site isn’t linked to our school page as of yet as I am still in my “Beta” version of the site and learning all it has to offer. Unfortunately, a lot of the content is blocked by the board filter even though it is educational and safe for viewing. Check it out!

http://wej33.blogspot.com

Thanks again for the inspiration with regards to the podcasts!

Jamie

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Jamie Barteaux

Grade 3 - CCT - W.E. Johnston P.S.

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I don’t need to discuss the power of new social media tools in allowing a voice and an audience to anyone who wants it and wants to share their talents.  If you follow this blog with any regularity, then you’ve probably accepted this as a fact and a new reality.  What I will share is [...]

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Teenagers’ Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing - NYTimes.com
For parents and teachers - how kids are using social media
tags: nytimes, socializing, SocialMedia

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