Comments for Where Curriculum and Technology Meet

Comment on TGIF ~ March 5, 2010 by Jane Killian

Jane Killian — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:57:36 +0000

The talking frog is wonderful!

Comment on TGIF ~ February 12, 2010 by Anne Reardon

Anne Reardon — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:04:22 +0000

Hi Ramona,

Good question! In this case, I just used my account and had the kids meet with me one at a time to do their “blabber”. We had taken pictures of their illustrations ahead of time, so when each student met with me he/she uploaded the picture, drew the mouth, and recorded the message. It honestly only took about 3-4 minutes per student. I worked outside their classroom in the hallway and the students came out during their center time.

I know that doesn’t really answer your dilemma, but that’s how it worked in this case.

Anne

Comment on TGIF ~ February 12, 2010 by Ramona Towner

Ramona Towner — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:54:46 +0000

Anne – This question is unrelated to this post, but I had a question about blabberize for you. I am a tech teacher and I want to do a blabber with my students. How did you get around creating acct for all of them with email addresses? I emailed the people at blabberize, but they have not emailed me back and it has been over a week. Any help you can give would be great.
Thanks,
Ramona Towner

Comment on An Apology by Anne Reardon

Anne Reardon — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:50:00 +0000

Thanks, Mike. I’ll check it out.

Comment on An Apology by Mike Floreck

Mike Floreck — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:44:46 +0000

Firefox has a neat add-on that allows you to download content from YouTube and save them directly. Might be a neat thing to preview sometime for teachers.

Comment on TGIF ~ December 18, 2009 by Jane Killian

Jane Killian — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:48:42 +0000

Anne, thanks for keeping up this weekly blog. I learn or try something new every week. The Google items last week were great. In fact, it led to my son-in-law helping me find out how I could add items to my Google calendar by texting on my cell phone. Check it off as one more shortcut! Merry Christmas!

Comment on TGIF ~ December 11, 2009 by Beth Bard

Beth Bard — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:18:42 +0000

Anne,

What incredible information you must have learned! I’ll be anxious to read more about the Google tools you were shown. The possibilities seem endless.

Beth

Comment on TGIF ~ October 30, 2009 by David

David — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:30:27 +0000

Hello Anne,

Thanks for the blog post about our site – and I’m sorry you weren’t overly impressed when you first visited! We always appreciate feedback, so if there is anything you can think of that would improve the site then feel free to contact us. There’s a contact form on the website.

As an extra bit of information, before you take a screen print, you can press the ‘up’ arrow on your keyboard to remove the blue background. This will hopfully save on ink if you wanted to print your finished activity.

Hope this helps – thanks again for taking the time to write about the resource – we have lots more free resources on our site which may be useful too,

David

Comment on TGIF ~ October 30, 2009 by Anne Reardon

Anne Reardon — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:16:55 +0000

Hi Jason,

On a Mac, you can take a screenshot by pressing command+shift+4 and then dragging the cross-hairs around the portion of the screen that you want to capture. The image will be saved to your desktop.

Using Windows, you could do Ctrl+Print Screen, but that will copy your entire desktop to your computer’s clipboard. If you want to be able to select a specific portion of the screen, you’ll have to use another application. I’ve used Jing and it works quite well. It’s an app that you need to download, but the process is quick and easy. You can even annotate your screenshots or take videos of your screen. It’s a pretty handy tool! You can find it at http://www.jingproject.com/

Comment on TGIF ~ October 30, 2009 by Jason

Jason — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:55:21 +0000

Anne…

How do you take a screenshot like that?