January 2010

Free screencasting - easy; free video editing - not so much

January 31, 2010

My quest for free tools to combine video clips to produce tutorial clips hasn’t yielded the desired results, but I’ve learned plenty along the way. This is the final post in a series focused on creating video tutorials using free applications. Over this last week I’ve attempted to fill in the “missing piece” in the video production tool set I’ve [...]

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Ed Tech Tweet Wrap for Week of 01-25-10

January 29, 2010

This week’s “greatest Tweets” from your’s truly. Hope you find some useful sites and articles here: Do you know a school that could use a free LCD projector? http://bit.ly/7wyGfN How Teachers & Classrooms Need To Change In Our Hyperconnected Age: http://bit.ly/8f4pSQ Microsoft Starts Initiative to Promote Student Leadership in the Classroom: http://bit.ly/bbHuHs Apprehending the Future: [...]

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Helping Autistic children learn with Video Modeling techniques

January 27, 2010

An inspiring use of technology, helping students challenged with Autism and similar disorders. This week’s mid-week update provides an introduction to a use of technology that should be wonderful to see unfold - expanded use of video technology, in the form of Video Modeling, to help Autistic children. In this article, Michael Leventhal explains how, “Video Modeling [...]

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Testing free video editing tools (and techniques)

January 24, 2010

The 3rd post in a series focused on free tools for recording, editing, and publishing video tutorials. I’ve been working this month to find a set of free tools that can enable me to produce and distribute video tutorials. Picking up where I left off last week, this weekend I pursued the idea of using Windows Movie Maker as a free editing [...]

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Ed Tech Tweet Wrap for week of 01-18-10

January 22, 2010

This week’s Tweet Wrap… Blog post gets us thinking about approaches to Social Media Policies in schools: http://bit.ly/64J7zm Fun free tool for science class - Make your own weather maps with UMapper: http://bit.ly/7KCozh Project “Working Mom” offering nearly $5 million in scholarships to accredited online colleges: http://bit.ly/7fErSS The Imagined Space of the Web 2.0 Classroom: [...]

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Come take a look at the new EmergingEdTech Facebook Fan Page!

January 19, 2010

Hours of happy fun! Please stop by and “Fan Up” at our new Facebook Fan Page … Announcing the new Facebook Fan Page for the EmergingEdTech blog and website. The fan page combines my Blog posts and Twitter posts with regular postings of upcoming education technology web events, and more! Please stop by, become a fan, and say hello. Join [...]

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Screencasting with Debut’s Lite Version

January 17, 2010

Testing the free version of NCH Software’s video capture application. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been looking into a variety of free screencasting tools available on the web. I’m interested in finding a free application that let’s me easily capture screen activity and record audio over it, and then save the resulting file in an easy [...]

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Ed Tech Tweet Wrap for week of 1-11-10

January 15, 2010

A dozen favorites from the week’s Twitter posts about Education Technology articles and web sites: List of “Top 50 Blogs for e-Learning Tools and Tips” (EmergingEdTech included)! http://bit.ly/4AjeTB ISTE annnounce Top 10 Education Priorities for 2010: http://bit.ly/66kEO5 Educationalist (interesting new noun, huh?) questions way technology is used in schools: http://bit.ly/5oJGmt Teachers turn to online donors for #edtech needs: [...]

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Education World’s Technology Integration resources

January 13, 2010

Ed Tech Resources from “The Educator’s Best Friend”. This week’s midweek post is a brief introduction to a useful web site for educators. Education World has a wealth of resources, grouped into 6 main sections, such as “Lesson Planning”, “Professional Development”, “Administrators”, and “Technology Integration”. The Technology Integration page is rather busy (as is the rest of [...]

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Comparing 12 Free Screencasting Tools

January 10, 2010

Combing through the basic functions and features of a list of tools I’ve become aware of, to select some for further testing. Over the course of the week, the list of Screencasting tools that have been recommended to me, or that I’ve otherwise learned of, has grown to a dozen. I have a goal of trying identify a free [...]

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