// Langwitches Blog

carve_pumpkin.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
Carve your own virtual pumpkin
(tags: smartboard swf Halloween)

Animations
(tags: math interactive smartboard sjeds-math)

“Video-Conferencing It’s Easy, Free and Powerful”
By Brian Crosby
This school year has started off with some great collaboration with Argentina and our 6th grade students. It was the first time that we incorporated video conferencing for and WITH our students as part of the project. We are bout to start another collaboration with a Pre-K class [...]

Each classroom and resource teacher at our school has a blog, that they are “required” to keep up to date for communication purposes to parents. Updated, meaning to at least create a post once a week. I have written about my effort to encourage teachers to Creating a learning community with your Elementary School Blog [...]

Our school has purchased a green screen and some lights. The idea is to film students more, encourage them to slip into different roles, be more visuals, ans add more effects to the final product. We want to emphasize the skills of speaking, appropriate and constructive video content.

Some examples that we are planning to record:

Fifth [...]

Teachers Love SMART Boards: SMARTBoards and the Scrolling Object (Touch and Scroll Solution)
Touch and Scroll
(tags: smartboard technique)

ScreenToaster – Free Online Screen Recorder
# Record your screen activity.
# Publish the video on the Internet!
# Stream the recorded video in Flash.
(tags: screencasts tool)

http://voxpix.myvox.com/
(tags: voice slideshow)

My famestar
(tags: interactive generator video)

TouchGraph | Products: Navigator
(tags: mapping visualization tools)

Free PDF to Word Doc Converter! Just plain and simple pdf conversion software.
PDFUNdo.net is a free online PDF to Word converter. It's real simple to use and doesn't
require your email address or registration. You just upload your PDF document and when
the conversion is complete, download [...]

TypingTest.com
(tags: typingtest keyboarding)

Games » Run
(tags: games)

Mirror effect – Image Mirror Effect – Picture Mirror Effect online
(tags: images generator)

Scribblar – simple, effective, online collaboration
# Online training and tutoring
# Revising artwork and images
# Creative brainstorming
# Sales and product demos
# Interviews and tests
(tags: webconferencing software tools)

Stick Figure Animator: Extending the Possibilities with MovieMaker
(tags: howto storytelling movie_maker)

Pivot Stickfigure Animator [...]

This video came to my attention through Dean Shareski’s blog.
It is an extremely fast presentation by Chris Lehman. He had to get his points across in 5 minutes.
I will need some time to go back and pause and play to be able to digest and REALLY hear what he had to say.

Here are some of [...]

I Like Delicious Things: An Introduction to Tagging and Folksonomies
by Chris Betcher
Here is his presentation’s teaser clip

Directly off the batch, I was impressed with Chris’ video technique. Since I presented with a video at last year’s K12 Online Conference, I KNOW how much time and effort went into those 20 minutes of video footage. I [...]

I am a little behind in announcing that the amazing K12 Online Conference 2008 is in full swing. “Amplifying Possibilities” is the theme of this year and the teasers and presentation titles are promising an incredible line up.
On October 29th, we are planning a get together at school with teachers (pot luck style), then each [...]