Organic Learning

Shared Items – September 5, 2010

Janice Stearns — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:09:13 +0000

Learning in Hand Podcast #23: Collecting & Organizing Voice Memos

September 3, 2010 – This is an excellent guide by Tony Vincent for organizing audio recordings from an iPod touch. It’s great that Tony includes a guide not only for iTunes, but also for emailing to Posterous.

Shared Items – August 29, 2010

Janice Stearns — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:16:57 +0000

Cell Phone Computers or Mobile Learning Devices (MLDs)

August 26, 2010

StoryRobe

jstearns — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:17:56 +0000

Download now or watch on posterous

storyrobesample.mp4 (774 KB)

I recently downloaded Storyrobe for the iPodTouch/iPhone. It’s free as a back to school offer for right now. Thanks to Robert Craven, AKA @digitalroberto on Twitter for sharing this great opportunity to download a very useful app for free.

To use StoryRobe, simply select pictures from your albums, push record to narrate, tapping next photo to change from photo to photo. After you are finished, you simply tap to publish. If you send as an email to yourself, you will have a link to a .mp4 file that can be played right in the web browser. It has tmp in the url, so I’m wondering how long this link will exist. I downloaded my file and uploaded here to posterous to just try it out.

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Animoto – Enroll Now

jstearns — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:23:23 +0000

via animoto.com

The video I created on Animoto for LAUSD’s City of Angeles Virtual Academy.

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Shared Items – August 22, 2010

Janice Stearns — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 06:24:02 +0000

Redefining Education

August 6, 2010

Tech-Neutral Interesting Ways: IDEAS WANTED!

August 14, 2010

Shared Items – August 15, 2010

Janice Stearns — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 04:50:50 +0000

L.A. Times Prints Cheap Shot At Teachers

August 14, 2010

Shared Items – July 18, 2010

Janice Stearns — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:01:44 +0000

The Skirball Center to Offer Free Lights, Camera, Learn! Digital Storytelling Residency

July 12, 2010

Using Dragon Dictate and Posterous to Publish Thinking

jstearns — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:04:08 +0000

What’s really amazing to me is it seems that this Dragon dictate app has gotten even better since the first time I used it. Not only did it recognized every word that I said, but it was able to spell correctly and punctuate with little effort. I can see that this would be a great application for students who have difficulty writing, but are able to dictate their work to an audio recording and have it automatically transcribed and published to a blog like Posterous.

Sent from my iPhone

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Shared Items – July 11, 2010

Janice Stearns — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 06:05:36 +0000

Great case for Educators building PLNs for PD

July 10, 2010 – On the subject of PLN’s, Wes quotes Dan Lourcey, whose post about how the power of connected learning has transformed his teaching and learning, is truly inspirational.

Shared Items – July 4, 2010

Janice Stearns — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:03:34 +0000

What Stupid Will Get You

July 3, 2010 – An engaging and perfect post by Dean Shareski on the new book by Clay Shirkey, Cognitive Surplus. I just finished listening to that book, and would recommend it, especially for those that are over 30 or 35, who grew up with television as our primary source of entertainment.
This post not only does a good job of covering the main essense of the book, but links many to of real life examples of how the internet is changing what we do with our free time, including links to several of Dean’s presentation of these ideas on Prezi and other posts.
Something I’m going to suggest as essential readers for teachers. We need to make sure that teachers really understand this fundamental shift in the way we learn and interact. It’s the future.