Win 3 free trips to your school’s annual D.C. tour, graduation trips, performing arts excursion or destination of your choosing.
To Enter:
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- Picture from outrageous ed adventure
- Describe your field trip in 100 words or less
- Name, school & contact info to me at acondron@teachhub.com
Photo Guidelines: You can use photos from a out-of-this-world class trip, an interesting, in-class speaker, extraordinary activity, or mockup a photo with you and your class on a dream field trip.
Deadline: Monday, October 11, 2010 at 12 p.m. CST
Finalists will be chosen based on how fun, unique and educational their photo entry is.
TeachHUB visitors will vote to decide the Educational Adventure Photo Contest champion . The winner will be announced Tuesday, October 26.
http://www.teachhub.com/school-trip-contest
To close Infographics Week here on The Learning Network, I invited a classroom teacher (and self-described “fanatic” about the use of infographics in education) to detail a project I first heard her talk about on a National Writing Project-affiliated podcast called “Teachers Teaching Teachers.”
CLICK HERE to read the full story and access all the resources.
Wordia.com is a high-quality online dictionary: a professional authoritative textual dictionary but with one big difference… Like a traditional dictionary, Wordia allows users to search for the spelling, meaning and etymology of a word but what makes Wordia unique is the ability for users to explore the personal connotation of word through video.
Video brings words to life!
In professional, semantic terms, Wordia takes the denotation (the textual definition of a word) and encourages members of the public to explore the connotation (the personal meaning) through the familiar medium of video. We’ve found that video helps a user to learn or recollect the meaning of a word much more easily then just a textual definition. Video gives the dictionary a new dimension and new contextual richness.
Your words, your video!
Wordia is a collaborative resource: anyone can explore the meaning of a word and more than one person can explore the meaning of same word. Where we have more than one video definition for the same word, we rank them, so the community can vote on their relevance. You can bring words to life and explore the personal connotations of a word in anyway you chose. Filming styles such as rap or comedy, poetry or performance are a cool way to express yourself.
We love an expert!
The Wordia team also creates professional knowledge-based video with experts, authors, sports-stars etc. These ‘Orators’ (as we refer to them) bring a unique insight and expert authority to the words they explore on video.
We’ve recently launched Wordia Schools: a private learning resource that groups curriculum subject vocabulary – the subject key words that educators teach on a daily basis.
Last year one of the best ads released during the SuperBowl was this simple ad by Google. Shortly after the release of this video, Google asked you to make your own search stories. Simply go to http://www.youtube.com/searchstories and start creating your story. This could be a great way to teach students search skills. Give students a start and end point. For Example, Jeff Utecht, of The Thinking Stick blog has many great ideas. For example, rocks for the start and volcanoes for the end. Then the student does the research and brings the two together.
When Adam Savage, host of the popular science program “MythBusters,” posted a picture on Twitter of his automobile parked in front of his house, he let his fans know much more than that he drove a Toyota Land Cruiser.
Embedded in the image was a geotag, a bit of data providing the longitude and latitude of where the photo was taken. Hence, he revealed exactly where he lived. And since the accompanying text was “Now it’s off to work,” potential thieves knew he would not be at home.
To read the full story, CLICK HERE
Posterino provides a solution for the common problem we face in the age of digital images: We shoot a lot of marvelous pictures, bury them deep down in the file system of our computers and most of them never see the light of day again. The solution is simple: Compose a “best of” poster every couple of months and pin it on the wall in your hall. This will make you happy every time you walk by, and it will be a great eye-catcher for your friends and family too.
Do you want to compile a “best of” of your photos from the last several month or create a breathtaking present? No problem…
Templates Posterino offers a variety of templates for posters and photo frames, with grids of identically sized frames or with mixtures of shapes and sizes. And best of all, you can create your own templates too.
Fast & Easy Get started in minutes. Placing dozens of photos onto a poster needs some time and serious work. Posterino will help you by doing the major part of the hard work while you just have to fine tune the results. Choose or shuffle you pictures with just on click.
Fine Tuning You don’t have to stick with the presets Posterino did choose. You can alter your poster in any way you want. For example, you can change the size and shape of individual frames and adjust the placement of each image within its frame. Crop, place and rotate your photos as you like. It’s a breeze. A grid layout helps you position your images just right.
Customization You can choose from a varity of border sizes, shapes and shadows. You can change the background of your poster and add custom text.
Poster Printing You have various options to print your poster: Use the Kodak print service build into iPhoto or a local or internet based print shop.
July 2nd 2010 By Tom Cullen of Asylum.com
I can’t image and art teacher not loving this!!
“Geekgasm! How perfect does this portrait look. Hand painted? Yes. With a paint brush? No. It’s all done on iPad‘s Brushes application by New York artist David Kassan — using his fingers. An epic, three-hour paint session has been condensed into a seven-minute YouTube clip, which captures the extraordinary process. A recent tweet by British actor Stephen Fry helped the video to over 300,000 views. Kassan sites the “sheer conceptual and executed realism” of Caravaggio as one of his influences. We’re pretty confident Caravaggio didn’t have this app. Keep reading to see the video, then head here for more examples of his work.“
by Bill Wolff’s Composing Spaces, assistant professor, department of writing arts, Rowan University
- Use the Flip Video Camera and get students to play with it right away
- Ensure that students have the ability to edit video outside of class and from home
- Teach students more advanced editing techniques over time
- Talk with students at length about best practices for working with video files, moving video files to and from USB drives, and backing up their work
- Provide multiple avenues for file conversion and anticipate some problems
- Require students to use only Creative Commons approved music
Bill has a a great deal of good information and resources. It is worth the read.
To read the full story and see all the resource, CLICK HERE
I love photography. It wasn’t until I started doing Project 365 as a new year’s resolution that I really started to be so intrigued with it. Often times, I find myself pretending I’m some professional placing things or people, looking for lighting, finding unique angles, etc… but it is most definitely fun. Last night when I was uploading my photo for the day to my Flickr account I started to think about how Flickr could be used in the classroom.
To read the full story, CLICK HERE
P.S. I started the Project 365 too, was trying to shoot a photo everyday with my iPhone, I lasted about a month!! I applaud Elizabeth!!!
Picked up the ISTE Daily Leader News today and discovered Kevin Honeycutt and I were pictured on page 10.
It has been an excellent conference so far, I have attend great session and learned a great deal. The convention floor with the vendors is always and education too. I even a couple of thing, Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium. I am pretty excited since it is so darn expensive and I can’t really give a compelling enough argument about why I need it based on what I do now. So, I am pretty pumped to have my very own copy, legally.
If you have never had the opportunity to attend the ISTE conference, you should, it is absolutley worth your time and money and would go a long way to moving you forward with technology.
ISTE Daily Leader DL2010-Day3_web (PDF for entire issue)
Link to all issues of the Daily Leader
Start planning now–ISTE 2011 in Philadelphia: http://www.isteconference.org/2011/
iWatermark 3.2.0 Easily add watermarks to art, photos, etc. 23 Reviews iWatermark… Secure and protect your photos. If you are a photographer or artist iWatermark works for you to by adding a visible personal text or graphic watermark. Once added to a photo or graphic this visible watermark displays your creation and ownership. Its like signing your intellectual property. Its cheaper, faster and easier to use than Photoshop.
★★★★★ iWatermark, is the only watermarking tool available for iPhone, Mac and Windows. iWatermark is the most more… iWatermark… Secure and protect your photos. If you are a photographer or artist iWatermark works for you to by adding a visible personal text or graphic watermark. Once added to a photo or graphic this visible watermark displays your creation and ownership. Its like signing your intellectual property. Its cheaper, faster and easier to use than Photoshop.
★★★★★ Why Watermark? Digitally sign your photos/artwork with iWatermark to claim, secure and maintain your intellectual property and reputation.
- Build your company brand, by having your company logo on all your images.
- Avoid the surprise of seeing your photos and/or artwork elsewhere on the web or in an ad.
- Avoid the conflicts and headaches with plagiarists who claim they didn’t know that you created it.
- Avoid the costly litigation that can be involved in these cases of misuse of ip.
- Avoid intellectual property squabbles. iWatermark maintains meta tags, uses many input/output formats and can also create thumbnails.
Can process single files or folders and more. “The beauty of iWatermark is its combination of ease of use and functionality. If you’ve ever wanted to give watermarking a try, or if you’re already doing it and you’d welcome a way to do it quickly and easily, iWatermark is an inexpensive and impressive utility. I’ve yet to see a better solution.” Dan Frakes, Macworld, 4.5 of 5 mice.
Stories in Flight
Just copy and paste or type a little text and it will search for the pictures that go with the work or text in Flickr and turn the text into images. Wham, an instant digital story.
Warning: be careful using this software though. Michael Zimmer of the blog Pursuit of Technology Integration Happiness said that he put in the title of a blog, and happiness showed a picture of Guinness Beer. I tried my tag line from my website “Technology is Opening Minds with a New Set of Keys,” and keys, got strange stuff, I had to keep clicking Show Story!! I think Michael is correct in assuming that images are chosen based on the tags that people give them. So, it might take a little digging to get just the right set of images.
Click the “show story” button till you find pictures that you like.
It is kinda like Spell with Flickr , type a word then tell it to SPELL and it finds pictures of letters and spells your word. Again you click on the letter to you find one you like and there are literally thousands of possibilities.
This could be used for short poems, sections of a speech or historical document. Would be a great way to turn famous quotes into pictures as well. There is a big kick in vocabulary, this would be a great way to create images to correlate to vocabulary that students are using in the classroom, especially for a certain unit of study. I really like this tool for turning words into pictures.
Former student of mine, Charlie Reidel, who is now a photographer for AP News made national news and one of his photos will be the cover of Time Magazine. Needless to say, I am proud. Although, I have to admit I can’t take any credit for his talents, he was skilled and talented as a college student when he was the staff photographer for the yearbook and newspaper at Fort Hays State University where I was the faculty adviser.
KANSAS CITY, Missouri - A Kansas City photographer is receiving national accolades for the images he captured after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Associated press photographer Charlie Riedel saw a pelican on a Louisiana barrier island beach and captured the moment.
His photos have received an emotional reaction across the nation.
The images are so powerful they led network nightly news programs after they hit the wires.
“It was totally caked on with oil and the waves were washing over it and it looked like it was very much on its last legs,” recalled Riedel when he first saw the pelican.
He said he does not know whether the bird survived.
At Media Militia, you will find the List of Free Stock Photography websites. ITS HUGE.
Make sure to read the rules and regulations for the stocks at hand, being they are free. Some of the sites you might have to dig through to find the free stock photos.
Sorting Your Mailbox
By Katie Wilhite Small Dog Electronics Tech Tails Newsletter
I try to keep my email as organized as possible, but sometimes I just can’t find what I’m looking for. Generally, the toughest emails for me to find are those that have an attachment (Spotlight can’t find everything!). I remembered that I used to have a column in my inbox that would show a paper clip next to messages with attachments, but I couldn’t figure out how to get it to show up.
Turns out it’s one of those quick and easy things: while in your inbox (or any folder in Mail for that matter), select Columns from the View menu and choose what you want and don’t want to see. Alternatively, you can right-click on the column headers and choose from there. I have Attachments, Date Received, Flags, and From in use. Discovering this feature was particularly nice because I actually removed some columns and reduced clutter.
When you click on View in the toolbar, under Columns you might have seen “Sort By.” This will automatically sort by the selected attribute—for most, sorting by Date Received is best, but it’s great to know you have the option to sort so many different ways.
Hidden iPhoto Features
By Ed Shepard Small Dog Electronics Tech Tails Newsletter
I’ve recently spent a few hours cleaning up my iPhoto library. This included adding proper image titles, keywords, updating Places and Faces info, deleting duplicates (and redundant photos in general), as well as deleting albums, smart folders, and slideshows that have outlived their usefulness. Here are a few tricks I discovered that aren’t documented by Apple, and apparently little-known on the web.
Did you know know you can compare an edited photo to the unedited original? This only works in iPhoto’s Edit mode. In Edit mode, simply hold down the Shift key and you’ll see the photo in all its pure, unedited glory.
Also in Edit mode, it’s possible to quickly zoom in on a particular area of a photo. Simply hover your mouse pointer over the area of interest, and then press the 1 key to zoom to 100 percent in, or press the 2 key for a 200% view. Jump back to fit to view by pressing the 0 key.
Want to hide certain photos in your iPhoto library, but don’t want to actually delete them? Simply right-click (or Control-click) on the secret photos and select “Hide Photo” at the bottom of the list. If you want to see your hidden photos, select View > Hidden Files in the iPhoto menu bar.
I like Faces (though it’s not always amazingly accurate) in iPhoto ’09. Did you know you can change a person’s Key Photo in Faces? This is the photo that shows on the Faces corkboard. To do this, open a photo of the person in Faces. Right-click on the image you want to be the key photo and choose “Make Key Photo.”
You can also scroll your mouse over the Key Photo in Face’s corkboard view, and while the photos are flipping through, click the space bar on the photo of your choice. That will be the person’s new Key Photo.
Here are some more tips about Faces, from Macworld magazine.
I also enjoy Places, iPhoto ’09’s geotagging feature. It’s fun to see my photos on a map. iPhone photos are automatically geotagged, but my other cameras lack a built-in geotagging tool. It’s easy to manually add this information to a photo, but it’s a chore to do this for a big batch of photos.
However, I discovered that it is possible to copy Places information from photo to photo. Simply select a photo that has been tagged with the correct information, right-click (or control-click) on it and choose “Copy” from the contextual menu. Now select your batch of untagged photos, right-click (or control click) on them, and choose “Paste Location.” Now they all share the same location information.
When you delete a photo from your iPhoto library, it goes into iPhoto’s trash. This gives you a margin for error if you accidentally delete a photo. Over time, iPhoto’s trash can fill up with hundreds or even thousands of photos, stealing gigabytes of space from your hard drive. To see the contents of iPhoto’s trash, click on the trash can icon in the left panel of the iPhoto interface. In iPhoto 09, it’s under the “Recent” header. To empty the trash, click on iPhoto > Empty iPhoto Trash in iPhoto’s menu bar at the top of the screen.
I receive a couple newsletters from Small Dog Electronics each week in my email. They never fail to include some useful tip to help me out. If you are a Mac user, I strongly suggest Kibbles & Bytes and Tech Tails from Small Dog Electronics. Check them out.
