Entries from January 2005 ↓

According to the site, “SimpleVideoOut X converts any QuickTime movie into a FireWire stream, regardless of whether it originated with your digital camcorder, your hand-held camera’s movie function…”O’Reilly: Exporting QuickTime Movies with Simple Video Out X

This could be an interesting site to use in an early grade class. Or at the higher levels, you could have the students draw something more complicated (like mitosis) and then have then save it and send it (two features available at this site).

Imagination Cubed

Need to get information about education technology. This is probably a good place to start.

Educational Technology

Here’s a 6th grade class that has it’s own weblog/magazine and a podcast too!

Magazine

Wow! This sounds like an interesting project.

iSight Connects Higher Ed to K-12 Classrooms

Videoconferencing sounds like a neat thing to do. I doubt the technical side of it would be that difficult. Probably the most difficult part would be organizing the learning experiences and finding someone who is interested in participating.

Here are a few sites that relate to the videoconferencing:

iSightEd — the eyes and ears of Education

Classroom Conferencing I think this site would be a good place to start to find other classrooms that are willing to participate in videoconferences.

Want to add some additional features to Safari? Try SAFT. I haven’t tried it but according to the various articles that you can find on this site, it has some nice features. Cost is $4.99.

haoli

As you know, Mac OS X allows you to create a PDF file from word-processing documents, HTML pages, etc. But do you ever need to go in the opposite direction? This product costs $29.95.

Mesa Dynamics

need to produce a quick movie using your webcam? iCamShare, which costs $14.95, allows you to use your webcam. I haven’t downloaded the software to see what all of the features are but on their web page, they point out two things that are not available with the free software, GCam (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13240). iCamShare can *digitally* zoom your Firewire web cam (e.g., iSight) up to 300%, and you can trim off unwanted parts of the video at the front and end of the video.
Arbor Bits – iCamShare

Okay, you’re ready to put your movies into Blogger. Here’s how to do it – Videoblogging with Blogger

At this Wiki site, you can learn about how to create your own wiki. This page contains links to sites that host wikis for free as well as hosting services that charge.

The wiki where this page is located is called WikiBooks and it allows to create your own modules (as they call them).

Wiki Science:How to start a Wiki – Wikibooks

In addition to GCam (found at http://www.macmice.com/gcam.html, which is free), another piece of software that allows you to produce QuickTime movie from your webcam (e.g., iSight), is a product called CamSpinner, which costs $9.95. This product allows you to record both Quicktime and MPEG movies, and still images. This same company sells a Web authoring package called PageSpinner. If you purchase PageSpinner and CamSpinnner together, you save $9.95. The total cost of the two products is $29.95.
CamSpinner

This is a good site that describes a variety of ways the iSight camera can be used in education. The author also provides many links to software that can be used to enhance the use of the iSight camera. One that I think would be particularly helpfulbut is not listed on his page is the iGlasses software – http://www.ecamm.com/mac/iglasses/
iSight in the Classroom