This is a very simple, yet awesome discovery I had recently. I love Google Drive and all of the document features. I really think they are on par with Microsoft Office. By default, Google Drive only gives you a few fonts to choose from, but there are many more that can be revealed. Below is my first Ed Tech video tutorial that shows you how to access the other fonts. This should be the first of many more!
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Newsy Website for Current Event Assignments
Newsy is a site I just heard about that produces videos for the biggest news stories of the day. They compile information from various news outlets to report their stories, including links back to the original articles and a transcript of the video. If you like to have your news delivered in video form, this could be a good site for you to use. It also could be a great resource for teachers and students who are reading article or research about current issues. The videos could act as an introduction to a topic, provide background information, or just be an alternative source for information. From what I have seen the videos are very professionally produced and comprehensive in coverage. This is not a source for cutting edge, investigative, or breaking news. I see it more as a supplement to discussions of current events.
They also have mobile apps for every platform.
Have any teachers used Newsy with their students?
My First Daily Creation!
For the past few months I have read about The Daily Create on Kevin Hodgson’s edublog. Today, I participated for the first time by celebrating a Happy 106 Day (I’m still figuring out what that is all about) with a dramatic trailer style video. The Daily Create posts a creative assignment everyday and collects the results on their site. I had fun doing this instead of the tasks that I feature in the video. I look forward to the next assignment.
This is something that could inform your teaching, but I see the value as just to help you as a creative professional to break up the monotony of the week and have some fun!
What do you think of The Daily Create? What do you think of my first one?
Must Reads: A Cool Microsoft Project? Olympic Limelight, Airport Radiation, What’s Worse than Having Cancer? The Human Jukebox, and More…
This is my weekly list of what I most want to share. What have I read that was fascinating, exciting, puzzling, or inspiring. Catch up on some things you missed from the past week. Maybe I dug up a few obscure gems that are totally new to you. Check out the brief ones now and save the more lengthy ones for later. Share and be share to…here’s the list:
Tech and Media
Very cool visual art project from…Microsoft? Shame on Google for not getting there first 🙂 this seems like their type of project. Props to MS, although it is a bit hard to navigate at times.
Excellent essay on the effect of The Media and The Limelight on Gabby Douglas, and our other young olympic athletes.
Health and Politics
I am continually in awe of the human body. When we lose one of our senses, parts of the brain get repurposed to our other senses.
Scanners at the airports have always worried me in terms of radiation exposure. No matter your political position on domestic security, it is scary how little is known about the risks of these machines.
This is a small but powerful step in the right direction for supporting people exposed to chemical/industrial contamination.
Hear from a young woman battling cancer on the detrimental impact of health insurance and medical bills on the lives of patients and their families. As if the disease was not enough to deal with…
Must Watch
Amazing short talk on epiphanies and creative solutions to poverty, the economy, and environmental concerns.
The always creative and entertaining, CDZA Music brings us the human jukebox, this week. One of their best. Just plain old fun.
Tech Whys 