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100+ Open Courseware Collections for Aspiring Web Devs - Web Hosting Unleashed

2008-06-05T14:39:00.000-05:00

100+ Open Courseware Collections for Aspiring Web Devs - Web Hosting Unleashed

popurls | popular urls to the latest web buzz

2007-02-07T17:45:00.000-05:00

popurls | popular urls to the latest web buzz

Keep up w/ the latest geek news.

2006-04-21T15:29:00.000-05:00

http://www.playawaydigital.com/index_flash.aspx

Digital audio books that come with a player, battery, and headphones.

2006-03-30T10:57:00.000-05:00

Links from conference today.

http://www.sjbrooks-young.com/id100.html

http://lazybase.com/

2006-03-11T10:15:00.000-05:00

2006-02-04T20:26:00.000-05:00

Ken Beck's Little Home on the Web

Blast from the past - best friend from high school.

2005-12-23T10:32:00.000-05:00

PCWorld.com - Reviews

Tech reviews.

2005-12-19T10:12:00.000-05:00

LibriVox

Free audiobooks.

2005-12-11T10:26:00.000-05:00

ThinkGeek :: Stuff for Smart Masses

Fun geek toys and t-shirts.

2005-04-29T11:36:00.000-05:00

Cepstral - We Build Voices / Text to Speech Synthesis

High quality synthesized voices in multiple languages. Support for Mac, WIN, and UNIX for development.

2005-04-13T16:04:00.000-05:00

Instant Activities

Easily modified Flash learning activities: categorize, image labeller, and matching pairs.

2005-04-09T15:54:00.000-05:00

Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine

Vintage 78 records in Real Audio.

2005-04-02T20:17:00.000-05:00

PDA Participatory Simulations @ MIT

Creative use of PDAs in simulations.

2005-03-25T12:15:00.000-05:00

Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools

Very interesting - cool tools in many categories.

2005-02-25T13:19:00.000-05:00

e-Learning Centre Library Index

Useful articles and resources related on developing online courses.

2005-02-25T11:42:00.000-05:00

Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net

Flash music theory tutorial.

2005-02-01T12:26:00.000-05:00

The SimCam: Film and Digital Camera Simulator - Photonhead.com

Nicely done interactive simulation of adjusting shutter, aperture, and film speed. Great way to learn about effects of adjustments on a manual camera.

2005-01-19T14:23:00.000-05:00

Audio, MIDI & music on mac - Mac Music

Macintosh music resources.

2005-01-18T12:29:00.000-05:00

QT bridge : tools

Collection of links to Quicktime resources. Lots of freeware/shareware that i was not aware of. Digi-cut looks like it is perfect for A-B cuts in QT movies for mini-lectures in current project for Diversity Team.

2005-01-17T14:32:00.000-05:00

Pleinpot: "fullscreen panorama on a web page:"

Interesting shareware to add audio to QTVR movies. Might be handy for QTVR tours of a teacher's classroom.

2005-01-14T16:08:00.000-05:00

Poetry and Literature - Digital Audio

Hear Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, W.H. Auden and many others read their poems. It takes about 45 seconds for each file to start playing. Files are in Real Audio format.

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Additional poetry sites with poems read by authors:

BBC Poetry Audio Archive
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/

Poets.org Audio Archive
http://www.poets.org/booth/booth.cfm

Readings in Contemporary Poetry
http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/

Harper Audio
http://town.hall.org/radio/HarperAudio/

UBUWEB Sound Archive
http://www.ubu.com/mp3/

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2005-01-14T15:56:00.000-05:00

wamu.org : The Kojo Nnamdi Show : This Week

Favorite talk radio show - especially "Tech Tuesdays" and the "D.C. Politics Hour" on Fridays. All shows are archived (back to 2003) - listen at your convenience in Real Media, Windows Media, or MP3 Stream (itunes). Too bad all NPR radio is not as easily accessible online.

2005-01-13T10:48:00.000-05:00

Macromedia - eLearning : CourseBuilder for Dreamweaver Extension

Free DreamWeaver tools -
"The CourseBuilder for Dreamweaver Extension is the most popular Macromedia learning extension. It accelerates the instructional development process with more than 40 pre-scripted learning interactions, quiz and assessment templates, and the ability to track results to a learning management system or database such as Lotus LearningSpace, using an AICC communication"

Documentation:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/coursebuilder/documentation.html

2005-01-06T08:58:00.000-05:00

Media Creation > Real Export Plug-in

Export movie files in Real Player format. Works w/ lots of apps including Quicktime Pro, iMovie, and Final Cut Express

2004-12-16T17:33:00.000-05:00

Upcoming Computer Conferences

MICCA
Baltimore, Maryland
April 27 and 28
http://www.miccaonline.org/

NECC
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
June 27-30
http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2005/attendee_default.php

Distance Learning Conference
Madison, Wisconsin
August 3-5
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/

2004-12-16T16:43:00.000-05:00

Expectations and Student Outcomes
http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/4/cu7.html

Research summary from NWREL. May be useful in online modules on teacher expectations.

2004-11-29T09:31:00.000-05:00

Annenberg/CPB

Looks like a good site with free, streaming videos for professional development.

2004-11-10T16:46:00.000-05:00

Garage Band Tutorial

12 Quicktime movies tutorials on using GarageBand for creating music. The site was developed at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

2004-10-20T11:11:00.000-05:00

welcome to cf/x!

Lots of free/inexpensive plugins for iMovie. The site is regularly updated with new plug-ins. Today's free addition (Oct. 18, 2004) is one that wraps video on a 3-D cube.

2004-10-11T14:28:00.000-05:00

Apple - iLife - GarageBand

Garageband website.

2004-10-06T12:27:00.000-05:00

Engadget - www.engadget.com

Another gadget site.

2004-09-27T08:50:00.000-05:00

MidiKeys 1.6b3 - MacUpdate

Use your Mac keyboard as music input device for GarageBand.

Simple Chord is another handy tool for learning chords.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14232

2004-09-22T08:25:00.000-05:00

Class Timer

Java-based classroom timer.

2004-09-20T10:57:00.000-05:00

SimpleBits | Mini-Tab Shapes

Check on related blog for variations. Use pyramid for Expectations course.

2004-09-20T08:41:00.000-05:00

Free course management software:
http://moodle.org/

Free Portal software:
http://www.metadot.com

2004-09-17T13:50:00.000-05:00

Assessment, Survey, and Game Applications for eLearning :: Respondus, Inc.

Tools for creating online assessment and activities for students. Check out free beta of Studymate - will export content as Flash files.

2004-09-09T16:19:00.000-05:00

PPTtoWeb - Main

Extensive information on various tools and approaches to putting PowerPoint presentations on web with narration.

2004-09-09T10:43:00.000-05:00

Bloglines | Free, Web-Based News Aggregator

Web-based rss newsreader. Elaine K. recommended this site.

2004-09-08T13:46:00.000-05:00

NCAM/Media Access Generator (MAGpie)

Tools for creating accessible video.

2004-09-08T13:27:00.000-05:00

Books for MacOS X

Amazing free book (and other media) catalog system. Gets data and book cover images from Amazon. Exports in various formats including slick HTML formats and iPod format.

2004-09-08T08:48:00.000-05:00

JAlbum - free web photo album software

note: Check out Flash template later.

2004-09-07T15:27:00.000-05:00

dMarie Time Capsule

Lots of fun!

2004-08-15T09:12:00.000-05:00

Kidz Online - Tech Training

Excellent site with streaming video lessons on a veriety of tech topics.

2004-07-28T15:40:00.000-05:00

Export the notes text of a presentation -- The PowerPoint FAQ

Good trick.

2004-06-30T11:32:00.000-05:00

Index: Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration

Research related to distance learning.

2004-06-25T08:54:00.000-05:00

Morguefile.com :: free stock photos archive

Free photo archive - over 20,000 royalty free photos.

2004-06-21T21:15:00.000-05:00

Macromedia - Flash Support Center : Tutorial and Article Index

Other Flash Resources:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/
http://www.cbtcafe.com/flash/index.html
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/multimedia/shockwave_flash/tutorials/tutorial8.html

2004-06-13T14:06:00.000-05:00

T H E T O Y M A K E R

Make paper toys - nicely done.

2004-06-11T09:37:00.000-05:00

Wired Magazine's Gadget Lab

Love those geek toys.

2004-06-11T09:21:00.000-05:00

free mailing lists from Notify List . com

Looks like an easy, free way to create listserv-like mailing lists. Mailings are one way - you send messages to everyone that signs up for the mailing list.

2004-06-11T09:16:00.000-05:00

welcome to dvspot - digital camcorder reviews & news

Resource for evaluating digital video cameras. Favorite feature: Quicktime movies taken with the cameras they evaluate so you can see the quality for yourself.

2004-06-02T10:18:00.000-05:00

The Case Creator: a Video-based Case Creation Tool

Looks like an interesting tool for creating CD-ROMs with video and synchronized transcripts. Mac OS X and WIN versions. Free.

2004-05-26T08:22:00.000-05:00

NPR: All Songs Considered

Great music show. I always stumble across and artist I wouldn't have heard otherwise. Be sure to check out the archives - there is a fascinating show on the Lost Beatles Tapes.

2004-05-06T12:30:00.000-05:00

Morphases

Fun, web-based face manipulation tool. Real time. Very fast.

2004-04-14T18:25:00.000-05:00

Adobe Acrobat - Online conversion tools for Adobe PDF Documents

Interesting tools for converting PDFs to text or HTML. Designed to make PDFs accessible, but might have some other uses.

2003-12-15T09:15:00.000-05:00

FrameThief - FrameThief 2.1 Download

Animation program for the Mac recommended by a teacher. Looks interesting.

2003-11-20T11:11:00.000-05:00

Technology Support - Documentation

Good docs for XP. Photoshop, and CSS.

2003-11-13T15:22:00.000-05:00

www.lesliefisher.com Presenting : Handouts

Good resources for web design and computer graphics. Some info geared to schools. Check out Photoshop 7 tutorial - might be useful in conjunction w. Photoshop WOW book I just got.

Things to look at: dodge/ burn techniques; adjustments to b/w images; masks; layers.

2003-10-30T10:00:00.000-05:00

To Excel in the Classroom

Excellent resource for using Excel in ES-MS classes. Lessons, sample spreadsheets, and links to data sets are useful. Converted baseball salary spreadsheet to Filemaker format - has some possible applications for teaching power of databases.

2003-10-10T08:34:00.000-05:00

Blackboard in Montgomery County Public Schools

Note: updated procedures and other resources for MCPS Blackboard server. Add to permanent bookmarks on davidk website.

2003-10-02T10:26:00.000-05:00

Jargon Watch Index

This index links to one of my favorite columns in Wired magazine which highlights new jargon in the computer industry. Very amusing.

2003-09-26T08:12:00.000-05:00

The Artist's Toolkit | Minneapolis Institute of Arts

The description of this site says it is geared toward early ES students, but I think it could be used in art classes of all ages.

2003-09-26T08:10:00.000-05:00

American Rhetoric: The Top 100 American Speeches of the 20th Century

Fascinating site. Thre is something very powerful about hearing these speeches and not just reading the transcripts. The "audio on demand" site is a good example of maximizing unique features of the web.

2003-09-16T10:41:00.000-05:00

E-Examples Index

Note: check this math site out later.

also look at:

Cyberchase
http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/index.html

Colorful and funky, Cyberchase is a daily animated adventure television
series and multimedia project for children ages 8-11. Cyberchase helps
kids discover that math is fun. On a daily basis, the site is updated to
provide content specific to the day‚??s broadcast episode. On a weekly
basis, kids can participate in online polls and send each other e-cards.
On a monthly basis, an Original Adventure will be added to the site.
There is also permanent content. Lesson Plans and additional information
can be found in the For Parents & Teachers section. Produced by PBS
Kids. (added 9/15/03, reviewed 9/15/03)

2003-09-15T14:43:00.000-05:00

UWEC'S ITM Online Help Collection

I have been searching for ready to use documentation for Office XP. Surpisingly, the Microsoft site has some interesting stuff geared for education, but much of it uses features that don't work in our current network environment and they won't allow you to edit the documents.

I stumbled across a well done set of documentation from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. They were nice enough to give permission to use the documentation for training, so there is no need to reinvent the wheel in re-creating docs for common Office XP tasks. This should be a real time saver.

2003-09-15T09:40:00.000-05:00

Bartleby.com: Great Books Online -- Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus and hundreds more

This is a great resource for free books online. I was surprised to find so many titles that were useful - esp. writing reference materials.

2003-09-15T09:04:00.000-05:00

Jim Collins.com

JimCollins.com - resources related to the book "Good to Great".

2003-09-15T09:03:00.000-05:00

Good to Great

Article summarizing the book "Good to Great".

2003-09-14T10:00:00.000-05:00

Google Mac

When searching for Macintosh specific websites, I usually start my search at the Google Mac search engine.

2003-09-14T09:58:00.000-05:00

Glen Echo Park - Spanish Ballroom - Dances

The newly renovated Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo is my favorite spot to go to for dancing. There are regular contra, waltz, and swing dances there featuring live music.