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Here is a great post you should check out by Liz B. Davis. Liz is an Instructional Technology Specialist Wellesley MA.  She has some great tutorial videos (or screencasts) on using Delicious, Twitter, Google Reader, Flickr and all kinds of web 2.0 goodness at her blog “The Power of Educational Technology“.

It’s Spring Break and I came across this video via Matthew Needleman’s Blog Creating Lifelong Learners. How does it make you feel?
Download Video: Posted by videointheclassroom at TeacherTube.com.

If you haven’t used one of the Flip Video cameras yet, it’s a real simple way for students to capture video and create some compelling projects using iMovie08 on the new iMacs and Macbooks. This post will show you how to import your Flip Videos into a program called iSquint for use with iMovie08. All of the Macbooks at school are loaded with iSquint and iMovie08. You may need to have iSquint loaded on your presentation station iMac. Either way, watch this short screencast below to see how to use your Flip Videos with iMovie08:

Hopefully you will find this amusing. I use this as an example to show students how to create a podcast that is informative yet amusing. I created all the voices and used multiple tracks in Garageband to simulate the appearance of several different characters speaking at once. I took the pictures in Photo Booth, added them to the podcast track for some visual interest.

Handel podcast ext changed from m4a to m4v

Is this how you sometimes feel when approaching new technology? Let’s have a laugh together…

Download Video: Posted by dmcdowell at TeacherTube.com.

Check out this audio podcast of some great poetry for kids from Karen’s Mashups blog. Just click on the audio link below (the “audio mp3″ rectangle) or follow the link at the end of this post. Download

Selections include:

Excerpt from “Afternoon Memory” by Gary Soto from the Poetry Audio Archive of the Academy of American Poets at Poets.org

“Hoop Queens” by Charles R. Smith Jr. from the School Library Journal Poetry Podcast series

“A Fish in a Spaceship” by Kenn Nesbitt

Excerpt from “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest L. Thayer from the 2007 Poetry National Poetry Selections Podcast from TeacherVision

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost read by Seth Woodword from the Librivox poetry collection

Excerpt from “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe from the Classic Poetry Aloud podcast

Karen’s Mashups » Blog Archive » Karen’s Mashups-Show 22-Poetry

Thanks to Gretchen who discovered this video over at Teacher Tube. As she puts it

I don’t know if they [Coe students] realize how lucky we are to have this access to these computers, software, and digital media.

Download Video: Posted by interwrite at TeacherTube.com.

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