Dr. Z Turns into a Potato

Well, it finally happened. Dr. Z has turned into a potato. (This photo used to be a live, interactive animation, but I got tired of him saying “Hey, Cheer up! Why the long, gnobbly face?” everytime I returned to this page, so I screen captured it. You can see the […]

Consumption Causing Global Warming

Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo. Leo Murray has released a dramatic illustrated video, Wake Up, Freak Out – Then Get a Grip, that talks about the scientific and social causes of Global Warming. He explains the scientific process but takes it […]

Map Generators are Easy

My Travel Map*Although I am not a worldly traveler, I saw Paul Glazowski make a reference to this Simple Map Generator on the Mashable blog and it suggested that I should map out the places I have visited. I did so and the resulting map is embedded above. It actually […]

Comparing News Articles from Around the World

I was just reading the EdTech listserv to which I belong (how’s that for fancy writing? ;-).A teacher was asking about how she could use Google to compare news perspectives from different newspapers around the world. I was fortunate enough to have attended Alan November’s presentation at the ITEC conference […]

AECT Google Forms Example

This form was created using Google Docs Form. Please fill it out so that we can see what it looks like to have the information appear in the Google Spreadsheet. Loading… What’s YOUR opinion? Leave a comment and keep the discussion going.

Using Google Form for Surveys

As you may or may not know, Dr. Z and Garey G are giving a presentation at ITEC 2008. It is entitled Dr. Z and Garey G’s Creative Cookbook for Collaborative Communication. During that presentation, they will be sharing the incredible opportunities available through using Google Forms with Google Docs. […]

Tools for Video Authoring

Ever create a video and upload it to YouTube? Everybody’s doing it. Although the statistics haven’t been openly available since Google acquired YouTube for $1.650,000,000 (in Google stock), Comscore estimated that in January 2008 alone, nearly 79 million users had made over 3 billion video views. Here is a video […]

Resources for Building in Second Life

Now that my Emerging Instructional Technologies class is exploring Second Life and playing with the opportunities, I have been researching more into how to Build for Second Life. We have the good fortune of having a “Mansion in the Sky” over Iowa Island. The designer for our house is Spirit […]