A Teacher's Life

Welcome to unitedstreaming™ I'm in a workshop right now on this product. I really hope that my school will purchase a subscription to this service that provides full length videos, clips, and images to schools. This footage can be downloaded or streamed to computers.The searching capabilities are excellent; one can find videos according to grade level, subject matter, and individual state standards. The quality of the videos looks good and I like how they have ASCD professional development videos available. You can also make quizzes at this site and there is a calendar online which correlates videos to important dates. Plenty of support is offered for incorporating video clips into other progams such as Inspiration, PowerPoint, and Timeliner. I can see uses for this with my Lab Schools kids as well as with my NLU students. The workshop is being held at the Michigan Avenue Apple Store in their fourth floor classroom. All I can say is, WOW! I'll post pictures later.

MarcoPolo: Showing Teachers How to Use Rich Internet Content in Their Classrooms We've been talking about MarcoPolo in class. Here's a link to an article on the George Lucas Educational Foundation web site that explains the MarcoPolo program.

In my NLU class on Tuesday, we discussed how the teaching of the LOGO programming language has come to a standstill. Interestingly enough, this post appeared recently in a listserv I belong to, and I thought I'd share it here. Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 07:22:15 -0400 From: EDTECH Editor-Jones Subject: Re: Logo status? From: Paul Left Has the power of the Internet, digital cameras and multimedia software met this goal in other ways, such that Logo is dated, out-of-fashion? Has the standards movement made the constructivist approach to using it too difficult to carry out in school settings? I taught with Logo in the early 80s, mostly on Apple II but also on C64. I loved it (both the turtle graphics and its list processing features) and regret its demise. It suited my teaching philosophy very nicely. I suspect it's not popular because: * not all learners are suited or ready for the demands of problem-solving with Logo * very few teachers are suited or...

USATODAY.com - Coffee table can now showcase custom photo book Here's an interesting article for those of you who were intrigued by the iPhoto books on our field trip. I heard about this link from the ED TECH listserv, which I will discuss in class in the next week. Enjoy!

I met my NLU students at Apple's Michigan Avenue store tonight for class. I designed a scavenger hunt for my students and Scott Murphy did a presentation on the iLife suite of software in the theatre. When I arrived at the store, several students were already there. And, they had figured out how to do video chats already! I had told them on Tuesday that creating a video chat would be one of the requirements of the scavenger hunt. So I was impressed that they had already done this by the time I arrived on the scene. Their enthusiasm got me pumped for the field trip in general! At the beginning of the theatre presentation, Scott asked our group what their impressions were of Apple. And, the usual comments were discussed... Apple products are more expensive.... not pervasive in the business community... etc. By the end of the presentation, I think the group fully understood about what makes Apple stuff so unique. Scott was a trooper and spend way more time than I expected lead...

iChat AV & Science Found this while browsing the aforementioned site. Check out this neat way of using iChat AV to teach preservice teachers.

iSightEd --- the eyes and ears of Education I found this site while browsing Apple's education pages. Looks like a great place to find other teachers who want to learn more about video and audio chats.

Please reply to this entry with some thoughts on Brian Schultz's presentation last week. Did anything particularly impress you? What do you think about the ways he integrates technology? Did you discover any ideas that you might bring into your own classroom?

Scholastic Pic from NECC Originally uploaded by elemenous . Here I am extreme skateboarding. Just a new little hobby I took up over the summer! :)

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.