Thursday, December 16, 2004

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/
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.

Monday, November 29, 2004

Annenberg/CPB

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

Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Garage Band Tutorial

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

Wednesday, October 20, 2004

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.

Monday, October 11, 2004

Wednesday, October 06, 2004

Monday, September 27, 2004

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

Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Class Timer

Java-based classroom timer.

Monday, September 20, 2004

SimpleBits | Mini-Tab Shapes

Check on related blog for variations. Use pyramid for Expectations course.
Free course management software:
http://moodle.org/


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


Friday, September 17, 2004

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.

Thursday, September 09, 2004

PPTtoWeb - Main

Extensive information on various tools and approaches to putting PowerPoint presentations on web with narration.
Bloglines | Free, Web-Based News Aggregator

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

Wednesday, September 08, 2004

NCAM/Media Access Generator (MAGpie)


Tools for creating accessible video.
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.
JAlbum - free web photo album software

note: Check out Flash template later.

Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Sunday, August 15, 2004

Kidz Online - Tech Training

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

Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Friday, June 25, 2004

Morguefile.com :: free stock photos archive

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

Monday, June 21, 2004

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

Sunday, June 13, 2004

T H E T O Y M A K E R

Make paper toys - nicely done.

Friday, June 11, 2004

Wired Magazine's Gadget Lab

Love those geek toys.
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.
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.

Wednesday, June 02, 2004

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.

Wednesday, May 26, 2004

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.

Thursday, May 06, 2004

Morphases

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

Wednesday, April 14, 2004

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.