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Another great video from Creative Crafts : Wikis in Plain English.
Here is even the transcript for the video clip.
Definitely one to keep for the files. Thank you.
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Travel for Kids: Egypt
Imagine being ten years old, exploring inside the pyramids, seeing real mummies or floating down the Nile! Traveling around Luxor, here’s what one of my kids said, ” Karnak was a jumble of things, reliefs, pictures, statues and columns. It is hard to say
(tags: Egypt)

By all means I am not a video gamer. I think the only video games I ever played was the original “Pong”, maybe a game of “Pacman” and more recently “Spyro”, the little dragon. Second Life intrigues me though…
I am bravely trying to “practice” everyday in SL, even just for a little bit. I even [...]

Just created a new travel blog for our summer travels. We are off in about three weeks. Anyone out there keeping travel blogs? Here are some of my favorite ones:

The World is not flat Chronicles a trip around the world by Lee and Sachi LeFever
Ed’s gone South
China Blog (Trip to Hong Kong, Shanghai, Xi’An and [...]

Pictogame.com – Create free games for MySpace and your blog
Turn your pictures into games and share them with your friends!
(tags: games photo techcamp07)

WillowWeb – Podcasts for Kids and by Kids
Here are some more programs that have used Radio WillowWeb as an example for their own Internet audio shows:
(tags: podcasting elementary_school techcamp07)

Concept Library
Welcome to our podcasts [...]

I have created a “TechCamp07” tag in my del.icio.us account to gather some sites, that I might use for a Blogging and Podcasting Camp in a few weeks. I am especially looking for fun web based image editors that they can use to get creative with images and integrate them into the blogs they will [...]

TILT – Teachers Improving Learning with Technology: TILT Episode 16 – Multimedia Storybooks with PowerPoint 2003
We know that our students learn better through multiple representations of the same idea, not to mention the engagement that multimedia can offer our students. With text, animation, narration, and the ability to insert video/audio clips, using PowerPoint
(tags: DigitalStorytelling powerpoint)

Flixn.com [...]

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Originally uploaded by Betchaboy
As a child, I was always mesmerized by a figurine of three monkeys in the “see no evil…hear no evil…say no evil…” pose that my grandfather had at his apartment. Thanks to the Monkey Business post from Betchablog for posting this cartoon from Flickr.
This cartoon feels particularly true this week [...]

After reading Miss Profe on her latest Blog entry titled ” You can’t make this stuff up“, I decided to blog after all about a story that is hard to believe… Maybe I made it up…
Here goes the story:
Once upon a time, there were several 11 and 12 year olds who wanted to be [...]

VoiceThread
A VoiceThread allows every child in a class to record audio commentary about the ideas and experiences that are important to them. Whether an event, a project, or a milestone, children can tell their story in their own voice, and then share it with the wo
(tags: photos web2.0 tools educational_technology voice)

Gliffy.com – Create and share [...]