January 11th, 2005 — Multimedia
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
convert this post to pdf. January 11th, 2005 — Collaboration, Visual Learning
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).
convert this post to pdf. January 10th, 2005 — Learning
Need to get information about education technology. This is probably a good place to start.
Educational Technology
convert this post to pdf. January 10th, 2005 — Podcasting
Here’s a 6th grade class that has it’s own weblog/magazine and a podcast too!
convert this post to pdf. January 9th, 2005 — Learning
Wow! This sounds like an interesting project.
iSight Connects Higher Ed to K-12 Classrooms
convert this post to pdf. January 9th, 2005 — Podcasting
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.
convert this post to pdf. January 8th, 2005 — Blogging
I have NoteTaker and I have a blog at Blogger. But I have two problems. If I want to enter anything fancy (e.g., bold print) into my blog, I have to use something other than Safari as my browser. Internet Explorer doesn’t work either. For some reason, both Mozilla and Firefox won’t work on my laptop at all (they quit instantly) and they often quit after a short period of time on my eMac.
I read about ecto but didn’t buy it when the author had it on sale up until Dec.26 (2004). Ecto by itself would be a nice software title itself but when I read yesterday that an Applescript is available that allows you to put your NoteTaker pages into Ecto, I’m thinking it may be worth it to get Ecto.
Blogging With AquaMinds NoteTaker: Blogging With a Virtual Virtual Notebook
convert this post to pdf. January 8th, 2005 — Miscellaneous
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.
convert this post to pdf. January 8th, 2005 — Miscellaneous
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.
convert this post to pdf. January 8th, 2005 — Podcasting
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
convert this post to pdf. January 7th, 2005 — Blogging, Podcasting
Okay, you’re ready to put your movies into Blogger. Here’s how to do it – Videoblogging with Blogger
convert this post to pdf. January 6th, 2005 — Collaboration, Wikis
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
convert this post to pdf. January 2nd, 2005 — Multimedia
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
convert this post to pdf. January 2nd, 2005 — Learning
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
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