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Google Presentations Finally Launched
Chris Chraft broke this news on Twitter this morning. Here is an early review of the presentation features on Google Docs. Now students need neither MS Office or Open Office… just a web connection.
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Far From a Shining Star…: Online Docs in Plain English
Via Barry Dahl. Here’s another great “In Plain English” video from Common Craft… this one explaining Google Docs, which has recently gained a presentation element in addition to documents and spreadsheets.
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Links for 2007-09-16
- Welcome to Learning the Wiki Way – Learning 2.0 – Shanghai 2007 A session on wikis in education that Will Richardson attended and raved about at Learning 2.0 in Shanghai. It’s built on WetPaint, another cool wiki service with widgets etc. (tags: wikis)
Links for 2007-09-15
- Brian Mull : Yugma – Skype Edition Hits One Out of the Park Brian Mull raves about Yugma – Skype Edition. In short, it’s “collaborative desktop sharing – on a Mac” via Skype. (tags: screencasting)
Links for 2007-09-14
- Internet Safety – Message Delivered A follow up to Vinnie Vrotny’s Internet Safety post I linked to from ET&L and the ITM. (tags: internetsafety)
- Tablet PCs in Action in the Classroom More on the Tablet PCs at Thomas Jefferson school, from Alfred Thompson. (tags: tabletpc)
- Learn to Blog… Or Can You? Tim Stahmer is getting into Blogging in Blackboard and had some of the same reactions I did. (tags: blogging blackboard)
Links for 2007-09-12
- Trusting Wikipedia Tim Stahmer offers an perspective on wikipedia’s open change logs – and links to a tool to help make sense of them. (tags: wikipedia)
- A N I M O T O: the end of slideshows Wes Fryer just posted a tweet: “animoto is amazing! wow!” I agree from the looks of it. Upload your own images and music, and WHAM – get an instant (pretty sweet) video in return. If this seems like an ad, I hope it’s worth it. ;) (tags: video)
- A Tablet PC School That Works Alfred Thomson points to Thomas Jefferson School, an independent day school in Joplin Missouri, where students are using Tablet PCs and OneNote (and wireless projectors) to learn “regular” subjects. I’m bookmarking this for the Laguna folks. (tags: tabletpc)
- Another Mind-Blowing Conversation In my favorite Warlick post in a while, he talks about the (real) science behind search for life in other solar systems – and the world of possibilities our students might get to live in, or make. I can’t wait… (tags: planets)
Links for 2007-09-10
- Transparency and constructivism, etc. (Or five good reasons to blog the research process) – NeverEndingSearch – Blog on School Library Journal I’ve been blogging my dissertation process, so this post from Joyce Valenza caught my eye. (tags: research blogging)
- HippoCampus Stephen points us toward HippoCampus, sort of a free Atomic Learning. Since my family has a long history of collecting all things Hippo, it caught my eye. ;) (tags: videos freeresources)
- Collection of Mac Apps Miguel points us toward a collection of Mac apps for the classroom… the list included many I hadn’t seen before. (tags: mac)
- Online Safety – Videos that get ‘em Jeff aggregates some videos being used by teachers to help students with Internet safety. (tags: internetsafety video)
- Room on your shelves for Wikipedia? Doug Johnson passes on an incredible estimate of how large Wikipedia would be in paper encyclopedia volumes. (tags: wikipedia)
- Improvements in Garageband ‘08 for podcast publishing Wes Freyer points out some cool (simple) new exporting features in Garageband ’08, which I’ve yet to play with even though it’s installed. (tags: ilife08 garageband)
Links for 2007-09-09
- Rules of Screencasting Screencasting is a popular form of professional development in educational technology, and this post from Betsy Weber is the first (concise) list of “rules” I’ve seen. It may be valuable to other screencasters and prospective screencasters out there… (tags: screencasting)
- First Week of School Tim Lauer’s back to school post, including a visit from the governor… and something about girls chasing boys. (tags: backtoschool)
Links for 2007-09-08
- English 310 Edublogs: Here We Go RR shares new pre-service teacher blogs. (tags: preserviceblogs)
- A New Feature for Google Book Search We can now cut and paste from public domain texts in Google Books – including different translations. (tags: googlebooks googleined)
- Not one computer was touched An interesting perspective in a back to school post from Mark Ahlness (tags: backtoschool)
- Teen Blogging Project Examples Sought Beth calls for – and posts – some student blog examples. (tags: studentblogs)
- What Do You Do the First Day of Class A back to school post with an interesting question and interesting links. (tags: backtoschool)
- Google Books: Create and Search Your Own Library Another very cool Google Book feature, via Lucy Gray. (tags: googlebooks)
- Wikispaces Blog » Blog Archive » Widgets! New wikispaces widgets allow embedding of all kinds of media… browsing the list of items that can be embedded might even lead to discovery of a few new tools. :) (tags: wikis wikispaces widgets)
- Wikispaces Blog » Blog Archive » Play your Media on Wikispaces I think this may have been working before the announcement, but you can now play embedded media directly on your wikispaces wiki, too. (tags: wikis wikispaces)