Showcasing Student Teachers: Fall 2010

Last Friday, I helped to organize Millersville University’s second Student Teacher Instructional Technology Showcase.  For this event, we selected ten student teachers that were using technology in innovative ways in their classroom.  Our goal was to highlight the outstanding work being done by our student teachers and to showcase their use of instructional technology to [...]

Converting files easily with Zamzar

Recently, I had a group of students show up at my office doorstep pleading for help with a digital story project they were creating.  Their video camera had recorded a certain type of file that was not recognized by the video editor they were using and they were panicking.  How could they get their video [...]

Visualizing statistics with Gapminder World

You may have seen the TED videos where Hans Rosling shows some amazing statistics then shows how the statistics change over time.  I know the first time I saw his presentation showing how life expectancy and family size has changed over the last 45 years I was not only amazed at the data but how [...]

Nine copyright-friendly sites for student multimedia projects

As our students create more digital projects as assessments for our classes, we need to be conscious of copyright restrictions and direct our students to places to find copyright-friendly materials to use with their podcasts, digital stories or Glogsters.  This week, I thought I’d feature nine sites that students can use to find and download [...]

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