i’d like to add marsedit to the pot … sometimes you just need to blog without the hassle of loading your browser … perhaps mars edit will be the ultimate tool?
whether or not i’ll be able to upload pictures etc is another matter …
the bonus about mars edit is that i can connect to [...]
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ok – well – i’ve been playing with some new STUFF over the last few days/weeks …
Twitter – kinda like a giant online global conversation
Flock – new kind of browser that integrates all sorts of social networking stuff – blogging from within flock is quite seamless – especially if you have multiple blogs
Diigo – [...]
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Wine-ing 2.0: Gary Vaynerchuck Takes Down Twitter with Happiness
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gary vaynerchuk » Twitter vs Facebook….kinda – my 2 minute take on life
tags: Facebook, Twitter
This is an interesting vlog talking about the power of Twitter to potentially overtake Facebook.
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Picnik – edit photos the easy way, online in your browser Annotated
tags: photos, tools, web2.0
Photo editing made fun
Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames.
It’s fast, easy, and fun.
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started with 4-quadrant model – personality styles
life with the wright family – fun game
classroom snapshot rubic
surveymonkey
i like survey monkey – i just created a post-test for some learning we did this last week
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photos today … actually these are from yesterday
first photo is what i had in my classroom
second is what has been added
as it’s a software/system trial i will have to keep a log of problems as well as what we do on the computer – how much we are using it (so we can sell to [...]
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a tough day today – back in class after 5 days off – my autistic boy very difficult – tantrums all day … so a nice surprise to get some extra computing power put into my classroom – i forgot to take pix but will do tomorrow …
basically i’m trialling a ‘thin client’ system called [...]
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DLC #3 – literacy – this time about nouns, verbs, adjectives, and simple grammar conventions
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i think i’ll trial as a whole class activity in the computer lab – working in pairs
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DLC #2 Simple circuits
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i’ll trial this with a small group
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