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Tech BFF May 21, 2008

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Tags: addictomatic, http://4oops.edublogs.org, Teague
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Today, visit Addictomatic Search that searches everywhere, including Twitter, digg, technorati and Wikio for everything include news, blogs, videos, and images. (if it does not display properly, it may be blocked by your school filter)

Boo-lify–So Fun It’s Scary! April 16, 2008

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Tags: Boolify, Teague
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Well, the day after taxes is always dicey. Waking up on “the morning after” the midnight post box dash requires tentative steps and reassurance from attempting and completing small, manageable tasks. Like opening and catching up on email.In my email Jane Hart’s daily E-Learning Pick spotlighted Boolify, a new educational Boolean search tool that accesses Google’s Safe Search. Apparently, while I have spent the past several weeks searching for all things deductible, David Crusoe and his team created a new search engine. What technological fortitude!

You get to drag and drop cool, little puzzle pieces to create your search. I love the idea of a puzzle I can solve!

…unlike income taxes!

There’s Snow Flake Like PageFlakes! April 7, 2008

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Tags: integrated instruction, PageFlakes, Teague
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Pleasantly stunned is an accurate description to describe the joy of finding PageFlakes unblocked on the school filters of our 4OOPS LinkClickers.

PageFlakes is a free, interactive webpage authorship portal. Simply create a free account and begin your page by choosing from interactive modules called “flakes.” There are thousands of flakes available that make it easy for anyone to aggregate content, RSS feeds, and widgets for many practical applications. There is even an “Anything Flake” which is pretty self-explanatory.

Publish your page by creating a “Pagecast” with a personalized link. Pagecasts may be either public, private, and/or shared. Students love the dynamic collaborative interactivity and message board options for immediate feedback with teachers. One student remarked that PageFlakes was more fun than MySpace. Pleasantly stunned again!

See samples: on Plate tectonics and Searching

P.S. If you would like to become an “official” 4OOPS LinkClicker, leave a comment here.

#153 With A Bullet! No April Fools! April 1, 2008

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Tags: Jane Hart, Teague, Top 100 Tools
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Dateline, UK: It’s the “British Invasion” backwards!

My Top 10 Tools were included in Jane’s Top 100 Tools for Learning, a roster collected from worldwide contributors. I am #153-a supremely great number! (she even included a picture without Photoshopping it!)

Now Online Here

Jane’s blog is one of the best and first in the blogsphere. Add it to your blogroll!

Where Words ExtEnd February 20, 2008

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Tags: digital photography, teaching strategies, technology integration
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Where Words ExtEnd

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. ~Eudora Welty, author

Visuals communicate concepts where words end. Words invite students to express a concept, topic, word, or phrase through pictures opens a door to another form of expression. Students also gain ownership when their photos become an online gallery.

Cataloging and managing the photos that students submit, can be daunting unless you access help online.

Explore two free sites that will help: Kodak Gallery and Flickr

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera. ~Lewis Hine, photographer

Use both sites or either site (depending on your objective and your school’s filter) to set up a class account for students to upload their pictures. Within your main account, each student (or student teams) may create their own “album” (at Kodak) or “set” (at Flick’r). You can monitor their uploads before making them “public.” (Note: Please keep privacy and your school’s AUP guidelines in mind when using student photos.)

Here is an example from Kodak and an example from Flickr

Kodak also has a store to transform photos into objects for gifts, fundraisers, or mementos. Kodak has a great new embedded slideshow tool that lets you create an online slideshow with all sorts of cool tools.

Here is a show I made in about 3 minutes http://teague.tumblr.com/

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. ~John Berger, storyteller and artist

We have great ideas for integrated pictorials across all curriculum topics.
Click here for more information or send me an email.

Quote Sources:
http://www.quotegarden.com/photography.html
http://www.photoquotes.com/

Squidoo for You? YES! February 7, 2008

Posted by 4oops in Tech BFFs, Web 2.0.
Tags: blogs, building webpages, http://4oops.com
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The The 5 W’s of Squidoo:

What is Squidoo? an interactive web-editor portal interface with lots of cool modules!

Where can you Squidoo? anywhere on any computer connected to the Internet

Who can Squidoo? You, me, another can become a “Squid.”

When can you Squidoo? Anytime and Anyplace because the Internet doesn’t close!

Why Squidoo? Because it reflects the interactivity and dynamic interplay with content that meets students cyberly where they like to learn best…and…it’s fun!