Prezi.com

Here is an interesting program - Prezi.com - Kind of like a slide presentation program, but with this cool zooming feature.

Here is a sample done by one of my classmates - thanks AT - 21st Century Writing Technologies

Comicmaster

Comic Book Creations - http://www.comicmaster.org.uk/
Thanks JR!

Video Hosting

We use all three of these sites to host video for The Wire

• Vimeo http://vimeo.com/
• TeacherTube http://www1.teachertube.com/
• YouTube http://www.youtube.com/

You can use the URL to link back to your Web page or you can use the <embed> code. All can be linked to social networking sites as well.

Cinch.fm

Here is a PODCASTING site with some samples.  Thanks AT!
Cinch - The easiest way to record and share audio on the web!
http://cinch.fm/norris

Xtranormal.com (part 2)

The xtranormal videos by baldeagleization are very funny.
This one has a teacher and an administrator talking about working collaboratively.  There are many others...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVXhA_hs2J8&feature=related

Virtual 4TConference

Teachers Teaching Teachers Technology - Virtual 4T Conference
I "attended" this Virtual Conference in May - IT WAS AMAZING! You must sign up for it next year.  It was free, there were like 25ish different sessions to choose from. University of Michigan was the host and Liz Kolb was the director. All of the sessions were done using Elluminate, and they were recorded so you should be able to see them. pw = 4t2011


http://www.4tvirtualcon.com/conference-schedule.html

Who am I and why am I doing this?

I teach Business and Computer classes at the high school level in New Hampshire - year 13 starts in August. I came to education late, after working in restaurants and having my own bookkeeping business, among other endeavors. I love teaching technology and business classes.

I just started on my fourth course with PBS Teacherline. I like their format and I like the six week time frame.  I have taken the Capstone Introduction, Digital Storytelling, Teaching with Webquests, and now I'm in Publishing on the Web. I probably should have done them in a different order.

I think I am doing this blog mostly for myself - so I have a place to store all the cool stuff I learn about, and as a tool to use in the classroom. I have shared it with colleagues and students and gotten some good reviews.

Teaching with Webquests

I finished this PBS TL class in May and never got around to posting my final project.  So here it is...a Webquest for my Personal Finance Class - http://www.winnacunnet.org:81/lharris/pfwebquest/homepage.html

We used it for the final project/exam last trimester.  The kids did a good job with it and I will tweak it and use it again. The final project called for the students to create a VoiceThread presentation that discussed their personal financial plan.

WordPress.com

Another Web site building site: http://wordpress.com/

We use this for our student online publication - The Wire - www.winnawire.com

Yola.com

Free Web sites with lots of bells and whistles! Thanks DM.
http://www.yola.com/