Downloading YouTube Videos with a PaWN

You WON’T believe this!!!! Think of the times when you wanted to download a YouTube video and it didn’t work. Maybe the website you were using timed out. Or maybe the link in the email never arrived. Whatever it was, it was frustrating!! Never fear! PWN is here!!!Thanks to DetURL!, […]

Skyping Guests into an ICN Room

How do YOU bring guests into your classroom? I like to use Skype to provide a live discussion with experts from around the nation. This is simple when your students share the same classroom as you. You just need to project your computer screen onto the wall so that your […]

50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story

Looking for a way to tell a digital story online? Alan Levine’s posting 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to tell a Story on his wiki, CogDogRoo , can help. This site is full of tools, but most importantly, Alan shares a process for creating a story. Instead of just telling you […]

The Story of Stuff

Here is an interesting video about using STUFF. Annie Leonard presents a 20-minute expose about the connections between environmental and social issues. This is a blunt realistic description of how our out-of-control consumption cycle is destroying our environment and globe. Ms. Leonard uses an effective integration of animation and real […]

More Twitter Satire and Spoofs

What would happen if Shakespeare lived today? State of the Union by Carl Moore contemplates that. Even John Cleese talks about Twitter on his vlog. THAT is funny! What’s YOUR opinion? Leave a comment and keep the discussion going.

How to Take a Good Photograph

I was just reading Rushton Hurley’s newsletter when I found a link to Amber Blow’s trilogy of videos about How to Take a Good Photograph. These videos involve various aspects for taking good photographs. She discusses long shots, close ups, rule of thirds, filling the frame and many other important […]

Embedding Google Presentation in Your Blog

One of the greatest features of Google Presentation is that it can be shared with others. You can embed the presentation in a blog like I did below: You can also access this Google Presentation through this URL. When you access a Google Presentation in this way, you can actually […]