Wanna Know Wednesdays

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

April 14th Photostory 3.0--going beyond Powerpoint!

Link for Using Photostory in the Classroom
The above blog says it all! Check out the videos to see how this program works!
Link to blank pictures to use in photostory.
Document on how to use Photostory
Photostory I did yesterday--used photobooth and built in camera for the pictures, just held the book up, brought images into photostory, added voice to it, posted it to You Tube--time--about an hour total!

Directors Cut - Photo Story and Movie Maker

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You will need a folder in your documents for our exercise today. We will be making a movie about dogs. Please let me know you are coming, and I will drop the folder to have it ready for you!

Levels of difficulty for story telling: powerpoint, photostory (iphoto), animoto, producer, windows movie maker (imovie)

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Wanna Know Where We are Headed with Sharepoint Sites March 24

Document about Share point
School using Sharepoint-Sisseton
School using Sharepoint-Gayville Volin
School Using Sharepoint-Colman Egan
Network Admin from Colman Egan
Several staff from Colman Egan:
lt002.k12.sd.us
ah004.k12.sd.us
School using Sharepoint for Teacher Accounts/Network admin
School using Sharepoint for Elem Teacher Websites
Our School Sharepoint Site
Liz's Sharepoint Site (only people with a log in can view at this time)
School Using Wikispaces for teacher webpages
Sharepoint Tutorials

Friday, February 19, 2010

Garretson Blog/Wiki Server and Setting up Delicious March 3

Here is a link to how to set up delicious bookmarks: (instructions here to download
Remember I am lbennett456@delicious.

For the Garretson blog/wiki server: (instructions here to download)
https://206.176.126.40/
This is a secure site and you will need to click on the continue.
When you get to the server click on users, login with your login for the server, create your blog and you are ready to go! Students should be able to log in with their login info and post!

A Cool video!
A palindrome reads the same backwards as forward. This video reads the exact opposite backwards as forward. Not only does it read the opposite, the meaning is the exact opposite..

This is only a 1 minute, 44 second video and it is brilliant. Make sure you read as well as listen forward and backward.

This is a video that was submitted in a contest by a 20-year old.
The contest was titled "u @ 50" by AARP. This video won second place. When they showed it, everyone in the room was awe-struck and broke into spontaneous applause. So simple and yet so brilliant.. Take a minute and watch it.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

"Social" Wanna Know Wed February 3rd

We will look at a new Social Networking site called twiducate. This is a free resource for educators. Developed in 2009, their goal is to create a medium for teachers and students to continue their learning outside the classroom. This site differs in that only teachers and students may view classroom posts, thus creating a private network for you and your students and a safer online learning environment.

Many students already use social networking sites. Why not give them an opportunity to develop their learning in this type of environment but with control over visibility and content. Talk about student engagement!

It is a fact that students will need social networking, blogging and basic internet skills to compete in today's business world. As educators with an interest in web 2.0, we understand how education has and will continue to change. We want to provide an opportunity for our students to explore web 2.0 but are constantly facing barriers with existing social networking sites.

Social Bookmarking
I am lbennett456 so be sure and add me to see my bookmarks!
We will create an account at Delicious

What is Delicious?

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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Wanna Know Wednesday on Publisher 2007!

Link to Google Doc

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Create a Blog with Blogger Wed November 18, 7:30 AM

Please be sure to have created a google email account before coming to this! Our goal is to create a class blog for you to use with our students.

Remember I have step by step from December of last year found here:

Previous Blog with Instructions
How to Embed a YouTube video on your blog:
First, go to YouTube and find a video that you like. It doesn't have to be a video that you created. Next, look for the box directly to the right of the video. Not only does this box let you subscribe to videos, it also gives you the code for embedding video. Go to the line marked Embed at the bottom of this box. Click inside the code box next to the word Embed. All of the code text should automatically be highlighted. If not, you'll need to select it. Copy this code. You can copy by right-clicking on your mouse and selecting copy from the drop-down menu.
Log into your Blogger account and compose a new message for your blog. Select the edit HTML tab, and paste the code you copied from YouTube. It is important to make sure you have the HTML tab selected first. You can paste the code by right-clicking and selecting paste from the drop-down menu. That's it. Press the post button and then preview your blog, to make sure everything works. When readers look at your blog, they'll see the embedded video, and they can click on the play button in the center to view the video.