4Teachers.org’s customizeable checklists for students use during PBL lessons was listed on the Technology in Education Resource Center web site. Wish I knew about this site while creating my Visual Storytelling PBL assignment for SDSU’s Comet program this summer.
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12
Aug
PBL checklist resource
First a stop action animation be PES….that I found on Emily Valenza’s blog art ed digested.
I love seeing the thought and creativity that people put into their youtube videos. However, I am not willing to scroll through the boring and tedious to look for the golden videos. I really appreciate it when bloggers do the mining and locate the gems for the rest of us.
And then there is Nova’s Open Source website on the car of the future. Students can download and edit the video provided, but the class does need access to video editing software such as iMovie.
I checked out Blackle.com. It’s a google web search page that has a black background to save energy. That I learned about watching “Battleground Earth” from Discovery’s Planet Green Network. We’ve been watching several shows on the network, because we are getting ready to remodel our 55-year-old house. Wish I could find a dependable general contractor in San Diego who works with earth-friendly-materials. Otherwise using Blackle.com may be my biggest contribution to going green this year.
11
Aug
I love over-achievers
I’ve been mining a wordle of web tools by checking out the sites during commercials.
Quizlet a vocabulary learning tool was created by Andrew Sutherland, a 15-year-old student. He says…
My mission for Quizlet is to make learning vocabulary not a chore. I know a lot of teachers assign vocabulary to students, but few students actually “absorb” words into their vocabularies after they take their test. Which kind of defeats the purpose, right?
It allows teachers or groups to create and learn vocabulary using techniques from computer flashcards (boring) to playing games like space race. One of the lists available by the now about 18-ear-old Andrew 100 most common SAT words.
Mystudiyo.com lets you create interactive quizzes with images and videos that can be embedded in blogs and websites. They had a competition for educational uses and this image links to the winner.
I just didn’t want to take the time to open Safari and find the activity file and download it. Someday I will figure out how to copy video using firefox, but it won’t be today. I have more applications to track down.
