Follow up to yesterday’s posting….
So, I have recieved my free unlimited account to Animoto. Their response time was great. If you are an educator, please get started using this in your classroom. In an effort to show my teachers and students how to use this, I thought I would create my very own sample. With the new baby, I am adding about 20 pictures a day to my google album.
One of my favorite aspects of this program is the idea of using “up and coming artists.” In any of the videos I have created, I have used these pieces of music, rather then importing already famous artists. You should notice that each music selection will actually alter/direct the way that your movie plays. I mean that the beat of the video flows to the tempo of the music.
Well, I hope you find this of use and would really like to see the work of others. I am mostly interested teachers are using this with their students. I had a conversation today with my art director and I can already start to see his teachers using this to showcase their work.
Happy learning… Hope you enjoy my full length Animoto.
I thought I would share this web based video creation/sharing program with you. One of my students had presented this as a hot topic in the graduate class that I am teaching. If you are an educator, please do not miss out on the free membership. Currently, Animoto restricts is “basic” user to a 30 second video.
Go to http://education.animoto.com/ to register your free account and get started on creating full length productions.
Its been a while since my last post. During this time, I have been transitioning to a new role in my district, getting ready to be a DADDY and staying true to my addiction to learning. Today was a special day in my quest to learn. Have you ever sat in a class and just wondered, why haven’t I known about this for my entire life. This workshop is designed to train us in the decision making process. The focus is on the process! I have read many wonderful books on leadership, managment and organizational change, but this proves to be one of the greatest learning experiences I have had in a while. As our new Superintendent stated, “you will probably use this your entire life”. I definitely agree with his statement.
Dr. James Coles has certainly had his share of experiences. Today we learned about the big picture of decision making and the benefits of a process. The process we are dicussing involves the SA, DA and PPA.
SA stands for Situation Appraisal
DA stands for Decision Analysis
PPA stands for Potential Problem Analysis
As the Math, Science and Technology director, my issues are span multiple areas and involve multiple groups of people. I am anxious to start employing this process in my work. I am also excited to do so with a the wonderful group of professionals I work with.
While I have just began this quest, please take a second to share your experiences with the Tregeo Decision Making Process. Have you applied this to your organanization? If so, please do share.
Thanks for stopping by. Perhaps the next time you are here, I will be a happy daddy, who has less time to blog!
Happy St. Patty’s Day to all. Today I am attending the 2008 ASSET technology conference with 800 other educators. This is always a very exciting conference. Its great to see all the educators from across Long Island, as well as getting a chance to see the latest and greatest from our technology vendors. I really enjoyed the keynote address given by Rushton Harvey. This was the first time I participated in a keynote using a classroom response system. Rushton was able to use this interactive technology to poll the audience on various topics. I am going to use this space to share my experiences and notes from todays conference.
I wanted to take this opportunity to share with you a new site I launched with Mike Keany, Director of Long Island School Leadership. As Mike puts it, this site is a “town hall” for school leaders. Please check out the new site and be a part of our learning community. The goal of this site is to open up the conversation and enable professionals to share ideas, practices and experiences in a more direct manner. In addition, I hope that this type of collaboration will open more people up to the power behind “social networking”, which I prefer to call “professional networking”.
I can remember the first time I used the Internet for research. I can remember the first time I connected with others and created my new network for learning. That was back in the late 90′s. It was an empowering experience as I looked into the crystal ball of what my career in education would be. Luckily at that time I had a nice computer (at that time it has 1gig hard drive and about 32mb or ram) with lightning speed Internet access of my 56k modem. The bottom line is that it completely changed they way I saw myself in this world. This was truly an empowering experience that all students should be able to go through. Do you think we are meeting the needs of the 21st century learner through our current instructional practices? This is a great presentation that I found on Slideshare.
When I refer to network, I refer to a group of people whom you share a common interest with. A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a site call Ning.com. Since them, I have been pretty addicted to exploring its use inside and out. As soon as I learned about Ning, I immediately began setting up my own networks and since then, I have connected with other school leaders as well as friends from all over the world. I even get to see photos and videos from these people. So far, I have a number of teachers already using the most popular ning site, called Classroom2.0. I have never learned so much, so well and so fast than I have with Ning.com and other networks hosted there. While I am now looking at the best ways to use this with our students, I am anxious to get any feedback on how your students have been using networks like these. Thanks for your help!
I thought I would make it through the vacation not doing too much working and focusing on relaxation, exercise and the new book Bob, Karl and myself are working on. Then I stumbled onto probably one of the coolest applications I have seen in a while. I am going to start using this on my own and in my school with teachers, admin and athletics as well. If you come across this blog entry and have been using this or something similar…please share your thoughts and streams.
This morning I woke up and my mind was going. I found what I believe to be a new tool, which could make a big impact in classrooms all over. Voice Thread allows a user to upload a picture and enables other people to record their voice or type in their own comments about the picture. I went through a few of them and was amazed at all the different perspectives each person had on the same picture. How can we use a tool like this? Are there any implications with safety and security of our students?
