Librivox
Librivox “acoustical liberation of books in the public domain” All volunteer, free content, open source project. With a pretty good selection so far! Like to read aloud? Volunteer! … Continue reading →
Miranda
Civilization III redux
Download: Posted by mclemson at TeacherTube.com. I’ve written before about the history classes that have been using Civilization III. Finally here’s my video short about the program. … Continue reading →
Camtasia
I have been getting the final project together for the course I am taking at the Marlboro College Graduate Center: MAT604 Designing Educational Web-Based Materials II and one of the elements is a screencast. I used Camtasia to make it … Continue reading →
skrbl: easy to share online whiteboard
So I was browsing around at Furl early this morning. I clicked on “Most Popular” and ran across a pretty cool thing called skrbl. This is an online, interactive whiteboard that you can share (or not). I tried it out. … Continue reading →
Civ III Presentations
The three history classes using Firaxis Civilization III (see my post on Civilization III earlier this week) gave their final presentations this week, the last one a couple of hours ago. Some students chose to give a sort of tour … Continue reading →
Quizlet
Quizlet is a pretty interesting thing. The first interesting thing about it is that it was programmed by a 15 year old (now 17) Andrew Sutherland. Now I’m not saying that 15 year olds can’t do most anything people over, … Continue reading →
Civilization and World History
During the last two trimesters at Kimball Union Academy history teacher Lyn Lord has been using Firaxis Civilization III in her World History classes. When I first installed it in the lab I must admit that I could see the … Continue reading →
Remember the Milk
I’ve been using Remember the Milk for about a week now and I like it quite a bit. Remember the Milk is an online To Do list. Now you you might think (as I did) that an online list makes … Continue reading →
Import/Export = more Options, more control
I wanted to see how exporting posts from this blog to another blog would go so I exported to my test blog on my own server. The posts exported fine but not the pages or blogroll. I downloaded this theme, … Continue reading →
Installing WordPress
Because I work in IT, am not an educator, my focus is necessarily going to be a little different. I need to learn how to install and configure these technologies, not just use them.To that end I downloaded and installed … Continue reading →