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The socket is right behind Lila’s crib.

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Space heaters are dangerous

Smoke stain

The wall above the socket has a stripe of smoke.

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My great great grandfather was NC senator, 27 years old with a nice mustach.

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Christmas Science Craft

http://blog.hmns.org/?p=2275

http://blog.hmns.org/?p=2278

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/ScienceArtMDChristmasCrystals46.htm

RSS and Aggregators Explained

This common craft video explains RSS and how to use RSS to bring the web to you.

Work SMART not HARD!

Social Networks are Real Life

Our students are attracted to and use social networks. Where does this fit in at school?

Thinking questions, deep questions with no simple, “correct” answer, are the kinds of questions our students will be challenged with throughout their life. These are also great questions to put out to a student social network.  Student motivation and interest + a bit of teacherly guidance will have students thinking, writing and communicating at the top pointy part of the bloom’s taxonomy.

 

For more info, see: Multimedia & Internet@Schools Magazine: Social Media in the Classroom—For Kindergartners ! Through High Schoolers [Available Full-Text, Free].

Let’s talk about blogging with SharePoint… [Post 1/3]

Let’s talk about blogging with SharePoint… [Post 1/3].

Education | Glogster

Glogster, Poster Making 2.0 Education | Glogster.

This site allows you to make a multimedia digital poster. This is a highly engaging way for students to communicate and share their learning.

Our students today expect to access and create information in the digital realm. We have the technology to meet them where they are. Also, many of our students are visual learners, Glogster gives us and easy way to capitalize on that.

Brenda Blog at http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/columnists/dyck/dyck037.shtml discusses the importance of teacher students visual literacy and how Glogster can support that. She also provides links to examples of Glogster in elementary education.

Shakespearean Parodies

History Chapter Summary

Reading Practice Hotlist

A Hotlist of Math Sites

A Plethora of Web 2.0 Tools

An Annotated Bibliography

A Wiki homepage

The Poetry Glog Project

Causes of the American Revolution

Pond Animals

Decision, Decisions: A Trip to Europe

This PDF shows you how to get started with Glogster.com/education: http://ncmstech.pbworks.com/f/14015153-Glogster-Instructions.pdf

Here are more examples http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/Glogster

 

 

Simple Video Production with Windows Movie Maker

IMPORT CLIPS
In this step you tell Movie Maker the location of the video clips that you will use to make the movie.

1. Open Windows Movie Maker (start, programs, windows movie maker)
2. Click “Import Video” under movie tasks to left
3. Use the drop down menu to browse to location of video clips (this will often be the Y: drive, look for “jontemplates on ‘acsfs2′ (Y:)”
4. Uncheck the box that says “create clips for video files”
5. Select clips (you can select several at the same time)
6. Click import
7. Wait, then move on to Sequence

SEQUENCE CLIPS
In this step you get your video clips in the right order.

1. Identify location of clips. Change Collections in the toolbar to see all your video clips
2. Preview clips in play back window to right
3. Drag and drop clips to storyboard; move to correct order
4. Save frequently
5. Preview storyboard in playback window
6. Once you get all your clips in order move on to effects, transitions and titles

SAVE MOVIE
Once your movie is ready you have one more step, Finish the Movie. This is kind of like the publishing step in the writing process; you make a final nice copy to share with other people. In this step Windows Movie Maker is going to collected all your pieces of video and any effects or titles and combine it all into one nice tidy file.

1. Make sure you have save the project before going on, this step crashes the computer sometimes
2. Click “Save to my computer” under Finish Movie to left
3. Type a name for the finished movie file (it does not have to be the complete title, it can be short)
4. Click browse
5. Navigate to “My Documents” and put the movie somewhere inside
6. Click OK
7. Click next
8. WAIT, this one may take a while
9. Done!

How to Record Sound Effects from a Website with Audacity

Start by planning. What sound effects will you need? It may help to list search terms you will use to find sound effects:

These directions will only work when you do NOT have the USB headset plugged in.

1. open audacity, minimize

2. go to the “free sound project” website http://www.freesound.org/index.php

3. search for a sound (use the search box, listen so results with triangle)

4. once you locate a sound you want to record, bring audacity back up

5. mute all tracks

6. change recording source from “microphone” to “wave out” or “wave out mix” (this is in the toolbar, just below and to right of the play, record, etc)

7. press record

8. bring up the freesound page, press play

9. let audacity record the sound, you may want to record it several times to make sure you get a good copy

10. use copy and paste to move the sound to the correct part of the recording

Global Scholars Resources on Learn NC

LearnNC has put out another collection of lesson plans that will work well for Global Scholars. These lessons can be found here: http://blogs.learnnc.org/blog/2009/01/21/new-world-cultures-lesson-plans-incorporating-multimedia/

There are 4 lessons on this page, 3 of which fit elementary curriculum very well:

• Comparing pottery traditions from around the world
• “Motor Car and Galimoto” An intercultural lesson in pragmatism, creativity, and perseverance, in which students read about a young boy in Malawi, Africa, and his quest to gather wire in order to make a toy car
• Studying ecosystems in the mountains in Nepal

LearnNC has an ever growing collection of  lesson plans that incorporate rich multimedia from around the world. Right now they have 19 lessons with more on the way. You will find the lessons here: http://www.learnnc.org/search?project_ID=20&ed_type=lesson+plan,teacher%27s+guide.

The lessons all make use of LearnNCs rich collection of multimedia from around the world which can be found here: http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/4162.