[1 of] 7 Ways to Avoid Inbox Overload When Collecting Assignments

Richard Byrne made DROPitTOme sound like a winner:

"DROPitTOme works by synchronizing with your Drop Box account. After connecting the two services DROPitTOme provides a url that you can give to others to upload files to your Drop Box account." (Byrne, 2011.09.06, 7 Ways..., DROPitTOme, ¶2).

Free Technology for Teachers: 

7 Ways to Avoid Inbox Overload 

When Collecting Assignments 

(via Blog this)

This two-minute, silent video shows how to get started:

YouTube video: Uploaded by DROPitTOme on Oct 8, 2010

Two face drawing videos

Austin Kleon

HOW TO DRAW FACES

MONDAY, JULY 27TH, 2009

http://www.austinkleon.com/2009/07/27/how-to-draw-faces/

Dave Gray | info

Videos – Drawing facial expressions

Thu, Oct 28, 2010

http://www.davegrayinfo.com/2010/10/28/drawing-facial-expressions/

Thanks to Nancy White for pointing these out in her Online Social Learning Practices - Benetec Slides (SlideShare, 2012.11.15).

An initial go at embedding from diagram.ly

It's hard to believe how easy it is to use this free diagramming tool. Thanks to who ever it was who pointed it out!

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Here's a rebuilt view:

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Ode to #Pencilchat by MiddleLevelEd

Ode to #Pencilchat: Technology Integration in the Classroom
by: MiddleLevelEd

In honor of Twitter's #pencilchat, I put together some of the more memorable tweets to create this video. I plan to use it for upcoming professional development workshops about technology integration in the classroom. It's a light-hearted look at the spectrum of where we sit regarding technology in the classroom and meeting our students' needs. Enjoy! (Xtranormal, MiddleLevelEd, 2011.12.07)

pabeaufait's favorites strike again

This is more like what I was hoping for:



The Global Player graphic that appears first is © alles-schlumpf (May 28, 2009).

My Startup Labels

books, brainstorms, drafts, essay prep., essays, free-writing, graphics, links, media, movies, outlines, quickposts, reviews, revisions, typing, websites

Voki for Virtual Book Launch

Mac – PC Commonalities: Conflict Minerals

This video, "I'm a Mac ... and I've Got a Dirty Secret," appears on the ENOUGHproject channnel (2010.06.25). It caught my eye in a Google Reader feed today. It has garnered almost 600,000 views to date (2010.08.20). It's worth one more, yours!

Photobabble: sample talking pictures

The Machine is (Changing) Us: YouTube and the Politics of Authenticity

Wesch (YouTube, 2009.07.16) presents "a brief history" and extolls a new age of "whatever" (33:44 min.), which as Couros (2009.07.21) suggests is well worth our time.

Collaboration Technology - What's Next

One pick from a rack of attractive productions from case:
http://www.youtube.com/user/case
Case Western Reserve University

Odeo player test

The purpose of this post is to test scripts for embedding Odeo players for recordings that students made.

Track One



Track Two

Pageflakes for Educators

Check out this SlideShare presentation by Gladys Baya, with an embedded YouTube video (below). It introduces RSS feeds and a tool for aggregating them, Pageflakes.

Vance Stevens, who moderated an Elluminate Live! session for a TESOL workshop in which Gladys gave the presentation, has made a recording of the session available with a TinyURL. Thanks, Vance!

Thanks, too, to Gladys for publicizing this all in a blog post, Pageflakes for Educators (2009.02.10), in which she also notes recent concerns regarding the stability and viability of Pageflakes.

Pageflakes4 Educators

View more presentations from Gladys Baya. (tags: webheads presentations)

Google Docs: Synchronous user limits and document stat's

A couple quick gleanings from:

Fourteen Interesting Ways to use Google Docs in the Classroom (Google Docs [presentation]) - a work licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3.0 License (slide 1), by Tom Barrett (slide 16), author of 100 Interesting Ways (ICT in my Classroom, 2009.01.26).

• 10 people can edit a Presentation at the same time.
• 50 people can edit a Spreadsheet....
• 10 people can edit a Document.... (Fourteen..., slide 4 of 16)
  

Doc stat's (Tools menu, Word Count) include an Automated Readability Index keyed to grade levels, in addition to word counts (Fourteen..., slide 7). Cherly Stephen's copyright article, All About Readability (2000) provides background for such indices.

See for yourself:

http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dhn2vcv5_8323t58h3ft

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Kumamoto Lantern Festival (2008.10.10)

Created from an iPhoto slide show [exported as a .mov file, uploaded to YouTube, and posted to a Blogger blog setup in YouTube

Notes:

• Blog setup in YouTube requires blog password.
• The YouTube video posting function affords text input (e.g.: the text above outside square brackets), but apparently not labels or tags.]
  

Exhibit A in PictoBrowser and Flickr displays

This post displays a Flickr photo set (Exhibit A, public), embedded with a new-found slide show tool, in which I'm just beginning to fiddle with display parameters other than height and width to fit this blog's template.



Thanks to Alan Levine for pointing out Pictobrowser on the CogDogBlog (Slick Flickr Browser, 2008.08.13). It sure is easy to use.

For purposes of comparison, I'm including a Flickr generated slide show the same size below.



The most noticeable differences apart from border shades (colors) and the like are:

1. Thumbnails and jump arrows for navigation appear constantly in PictoBrowser display, while only briefly after starting the show (">") or on mouse-over in Flickr;
   
2. Slides advance only manually in PictoBrowser, but automatically or manually in Flickr;
   
3. Titles get displayed in overlays at the foot of the graphics in PictoBrowser, but only in full-screen view with "Info On" in Flickr (or on the Flickr site);
   
4. Notes - Descriptions from Flickr - appear in PictoBrowser on mouse-over ("Notes"), but only in full-screen view with "Info On" in Flickr (or on the Flickr site); and
   
5. As Alan suggests, PictoBrowsers "spawn" - you can generate another PictoBrowser slide show on the spot, by clicking on the link at the lower right-hand corner of the display frame, while you must got to the Flickr site to accomplish the same feat.
   

Wesch introducing YouTube at the U.S. LoC

Billed as "an excellent backgrounder to social media, user-generated content, and online communities through the lens of anthropology" by Alec Couros (2008.08.03), this YouTube video resonates in a similar post by D'Arcy Norman (2008.08.06). The video represents a June 23, 2008, appearance of Professor Michael Wesch at a U.S. Library of Congress (LoC) podium to display and describe his and his students' findings from ethnological investigations into YouTube as participant observers (Wesch, 2008)

Wesch describes media such as YouTube as neither content, nor tools of communication, but rather as a landscape that mediates human relationships. He suggests that changes in "the mediascape" correspond to changes in human relations (approx. 12 of 55 minutes in), reflecting manifestations of participatory culture and networked individualism. Eschewing Powerpoint, he and his students remix dozens of independent video productions to portray a mediated state under tension between personal expression and social aspiration:

• individualism and community,
  
• independence and relationships, and
• aggrandizement and authenticity.

"More info" in the YouTube sidebar provides a timeline for the video itself (Added: July 26, 2008). However, you've got to see the presentation to believe it!

Reference

Wesch, Michael (Dir.). (2008). An anthropological introduction to YouTube. Retrieved September 9, 2008, from http://youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU

Hot extension for Firefox: NoScripts

I took a quick look at ... [a] website ... , shortly after installing a hot extension for Firefox, and thought you might like to take a look at the overviews I got before and after training up NoScripts (by temporarily allowing Flash media). Please find attached two screenshots ([before and after,] below)....

NoScripts came so highly recommended by Rich Mogull (Should Mac users run antivirus software, TidBITs, Issue 920, March 24, 2008) that I even tried it out at home on Windows. Aside from the shock I got on first glimpse of your site index this morning, I am thoroughly pleased with how well NoScripts works, and how easy it seems to be to train.

(pab, personal correspondence, 2008.04.03)

Before:

After:

"Lessons from Geese" (jamsoun, 2006)

Running the risk of making this blog media heavier than it already is, I'm going to add an inspiring video entitled Lessons from Geese that Vicki pointed out in the current Electronic Village Online workshop, Blogging for Educators (message 419, 2008.01.21)

Lessons From Geese
Uploaded by jamsoun

(Dailymotion,
c. 2006)

Whether the lessons presented in that video are examples of collaboration or cooperation, they definitely are inspiring for groups of people working together. I can hardly wait to watch it again.

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