Tiger Creek Map - Discover Skin
This is an example of a Digital Photo Map used as a virtual field trip. Videos are linked to each photo.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
CommunityWalk - make your own map, build interactive maps, create a map with photos, videos, more
CommunityWalk - make your own map, build interactive maps, create a map with photos, videos, more
Another great place to create Digital Photo Maps and Geotag. Tweet
Another great place to create Digital Photo Maps and Geotag. Tweet
Gee Whiz Community
Gee Whiz Community
Learned about this in a great session at NECC 2007. It was called Global Awareness through Geogagging: Creating and Using Digital Photo Maps.
We used Flickr and Tripper Map to create our Digital Photo Maps. Tweet
Learned about this in a great session at NECC 2007. It was called Global Awareness through Geogagging: Creating and Using Digital Photo Maps.
We used Flickr and Tripper Map to create our Digital Photo Maps. Tweet
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Podcasting in 1st Grade using G-cast
A teacher sent me the following e-mail. I was so excited to receive it! She is definately a lifelong learner!
Cameron,
I just have to share my success with you. I joined GCAST and now have my children reading books and saving them as pod casts for us to assess reading fluency! We only have a list of 4 readings so far but the children are excited. And how many times do they actually get to hear what they sound like reading? It is going to be very helpful with reading. But as you already know there is so much that can be done through this site. My mind is spinning with the different pod casts we can make and what we can do with them. If you want to listen to ours, go to podcasts in itunes, go to subscribe to podcasts, go to advanced in the top menu and type in http://www.gcast.com/u/mwiggins/. That should bring up our list.
Secondly, I have successfully transferred cassettes to CDs using Audacity! I use a listening center daily with books on tape or teacher made listening lessons/activities so this was so important to me. All the cassette players around here are breaking. Again there is so much more that can be done with this.
Thank you so much for all the inspiration you give me. It is because of you I can do this and my classes will forever benefit. These are baby steps in the big picture but they are big steps for me. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Minnette
Now, it isn't because of me, it is because she took what she learned in a professional development and tried something new! Thank YOU Minnette! You can hear her students by going here: http://www.gcast.com/u/mwiggins?nr=1&&s=101733983 Click POSTS to see a list and click the initials of a student to hear.
If you have a success story, please comment on this post! Maybe you will inspire someone to try something new! Thanks! Tweet
Cameron,
I just have to share my success with you. I joined GCAST and now have my children reading books and saving them as pod casts for us to assess reading fluency! We only have a list of 4 readings so far but the children are excited. And how many times do they actually get to hear what they sound like reading? It is going to be very helpful with reading. But as you already know there is so much that can be done through this site. My mind is spinning with the different pod casts we can make and what we can do with them. If you want to listen to ours, go to podcasts in itunes, go to subscribe to podcasts, go to advanced in the top menu and type in http://www.gcast.com/u/mwiggins/. That should bring up our list.
Secondly, I have successfully transferred cassettes to CDs using Audacity! I use a listening center daily with books on tape or teacher made listening lessons/activities so this was so important to me. All the cassette players around here are breaking. Again there is so much more that can be done with this.
Thank you so much for all the inspiration you give me. It is because of you I can do this and my classes will forever benefit. These are baby steps in the big picture but they are big steps for me. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Minnette
Now, it isn't because of me, it is because she took what she learned in a professional development and tried something new! Thank YOU Minnette! You can hear her students by going here: http://www.gcast.com/u/mwiggins?nr=1&&s=101733983 Click POSTS to see a list and click the initials of a student to hear.
If you have a success story, please comment on this post! Maybe you will inspire someone to try something new! Thanks! Tweet
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Being 2 places at one time with Camtasia
As with most technology specialists there are many times when I need to be two places at one time. I've started using Camtasia Studio to record my lessons. I capture my screen movements and voice when I teach a lesson. I save the file as an avi movie file and teachers can press play and have me with them in the lab teaching via video. The program has lots of features like mouse highlight and click highlight to help focus the viewer on the correct part of the screen. The sound quality is great. I used the built in monitor microphone of our Dell monitors and it picked up my voice and the students' voices. The teachers who used the video lesson later said that students were answering my questions as if I were actually in the room. Camtasia is easy to use and allows for lots of saving formats so you can show lessons over the web or even e-mail them. The funny thing is when people hear my voice coming from both labs and wonder how I can be two places at one time. Now you know!
You can find out more about Camtasia here: http://www.techsmith.com/
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