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Youtube has a great tool called Spotlight that lets you make any video interactive. It's really handy for lessons and quizzes. Essentially, you can ask students a question - or a series of questions - and when they answer show them a personalized video response according to how they did.

Edutopia.org asked several innovators in the field about what practical steps teachers and administrators could take right away -- without making any major investments or waiting for policy shifts -- to improve technology integration in our classrooms. Here's what they suggest:

Edutopia.org asked several innovators in the field about what practical steps teachers and administrators could take right away -- without making any major investments or waiting for policy shifts -- to improve technology integration in our classrooms. Here's what they suggest:

"In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning -- creating conditions where kids' natural talents can flourish."

another Sir Ken Robinson TED talk - well worth watching and sharing with your staff.... I kept thinking about the principles of differentian as I listened.

"Digital Storytelling can transform your students' writing into a visual masterpiece that is filled with voice and emotion, while enhancing critical thinking skills. The iPad takes digital storytelling to a new level by making the process easier, and even more engaging for students of all grade levels as well as for their teachers. "

Interactive map that shows world countries where child labour is used to make products.

What if the presentation was a story, a journey, an in-depth look into some aspect of a book, a time period as told through images and the research of the storyteller. What if the preperation of making the presentation was about learning? What if it was about crafting a story and understanding a topic to the point where you could stand and without notes, without bulletpoints tell your story. 

Make music loops online.  Cool.

Tutorial for making a tour in Google Earth

1. Use MS Paint to Resize an Image After opening or creating an image in MS Paint, you can resize it. To do this, place your mouse over Image on the toolbar and click Stretch/Skew. You can type in any number from 0-500 in the Horizontal and/or Vertical box and it will re-size your image by that much percent. For example, if you type in 70, you'll resize the image, or make it narrower, by 70%. This function is great if you need to re-size a large photograph. You can also re-size images by selecting the photo by going to Edit → Select All, and then finding and clicking on the corner blue squares and dragging the photo.

Some interesting thoughts about do everything devices.