The real TIE!

So, you may wonder how we educators made it through 4 solid days of gazing zombie-like into our computer screens! Well, it was easy. The weather was great and the views spectacular...besides- who says you have to go to every session.

I look forward to using what I have learned and poking around some more in the blogosphere. It is going to be hard to keep up!

pg

Lets share spreadsheets!

The Colorado Writing Project is meeting in holding one of their fabulous classes in my library for the next two weeks. I was talking to the instructor about online word processors. I was disappointed to find that Google has purchased Writely and hasn’t quite gotten it posted yet. I can’t wait however…

It is a happy day though…Google has released their Google Spreadsheet already. Many of you know that spreadsheets are very versatile- so lets start with this one. You can collaborate with this online project, email it to a friend- edit and make changes together. Pretty cool stuff. I’m off to lunch!

pg

Copyright

In the afternoon, I attended a great Copyright Session by Michael Aragon. He gave us some great information that I found helpful.

After spending so much time today in the Blogosphere, I came up with an interesting question this afternoon in the copyright class. Are blogs copyritten? How about podcasts? It looks like this area is a little hazy right now (the copyright police haven’t caught up with technology yet!) I found a great podcast copyright article that made me think - thanks to College Broadcast – interesting reading

Of course, you can’t play movies in your classroom as a reinforcer unless it is combined with face to face instruction. (play 10 minutes, pause and discuss how it relates to curriculum) However, remember you can purchase a license for showing that movie (with some restrictions).

For the best results, ask permission to use the material. A great place to start to find out how to do this is from the Copyright Management Center. Check out this site for

Until next time…pg

PS… I keep looking at creative commons- here is a cool cartoon that explains it! Comic for creative commons

TIE in the Morning

Well, it finally happened. I was presenting at the Colorado Technology in Education conference and showing some GREAT blog, pod and wiki sites. The room was full of interested educators one happened to be the author of my exemplar. Wow- how lucky to have met Bud (the teacher) .

We had a lively morning- lots of new information and great ideas from educators. You folks really have found ways to help students learn! I can hardly wait to see what some of your kids will do with Podcasting and Wiki's!

Technorati Tags: http://webvelocity.blogspot.com/

Row Row Row your boat

Alex and I have been experimenting with Podcasts and wanted to see what they would look like in BLOGGER. SO...here is our little Row your boat round! Just click on the title of this post and take a listen...

pg

PS- (Rick made faces when he listened- remember it was only a test!)
PPS- ((It WAS pretty bad. I've taken off the link))

Two new toys today!

OK, yesterday while researching for my class I found some cool stuff. I found an online media presentation that I couldn’t – my computer wasn’t set up for it. Jerry had told me about an open-source word/presentation/spreadsheet program that I should try. WOW. I downloaded and installed OpenOffice and it ran my program just fine. Nice!

I also started using the web editing tool NVU (WYSIWYG HTML editor with site management features derived from Mozilla) but can’t tell you too much about it because I’m so green at it. I need to recommend NVU to the non-profits I work with that don’t have a budget. It would be cool it if would work for them.

OK- Now you have two new tools to push you into the beyond!!!
~ the guybrarian

Where do we go?

In preparing for my upcoming class, I think it is really important to consider vectors and velocity. OK...just looking for a starting point is difficult!