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Podcasting with Vocaroo.com

Posted by tropin on February 4, 2010

Using Vocaroo to podcast is very simple and works well.  All you need is the microphone and website.Click to record and stop when done. The podcast is stored at their website and you can use the link or embed the podcast into your blog.

http://vocaroo.com/

 

Vocaroo

The embeded  podcast will have an image of a playable gadget.

Vocgadget

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The First Computer ?

Posted by tropin on January 13, 2010

original computer

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Electron Microscope Image

Posted by tropin on November 24, 2009

Neuron

Purkinje Neurons
Of the 100 billion neurons in your brain. Purkinje (pronounced purr-kin-jee) neurons are some of the largest. Among other things, these cells are the masters of motor coordination in the cerebellar cortex. Toxic exposure such as alcohol and lithium, autoimmune diseases, genetic mutations including autism and neurodegenerative diseases can negatively affect human Purkinje cells.

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Effect of Internet Web Search on The Brain

Posted by tropin on October 22, 2009

Brain

Naives” with minimal prior Internet search experience (top), and “Savvies” with a lot of Web search experience (bottom). Images show patterns of activity for first brain scans (left) and second brain scans (right). Note during the second brain scans, which is after Internet training, both Naives and Savvies have similar brain patterns.

First-time Internet Users Find Boost In Brain Function After Just One Week
ScienceDaily (Oct. 19, 2009) ­ You can teach an old dog new tricks, say UCLA scientists who found that middle-aged and older adults with little Internet experience were able to trigger key centers in the brain that control decision-making and complex reasoning after just one week of surfing the Web.
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Document Camera

Posted by tropin on October 5, 2009

100 Ideas for Data Projector and Document Camera

Ideas for the classroom from Umatilla-Morrow teachers
  1. Demonstrate math manipulatives
  2. Show visuals for science experiments
  3. Modeling of the physical process of writing – hand movements
  4. Art – Modeling
  5. Audio visual resources from internet
  6.  Whole class participate in practice state test
  7.  Isolate new vocabulary
  8. Show and Tell
  9. Book Reports
  10. Highlighted good vs bad grammar in writing
  11. Showing selected DVDs or Videos
  12. Going over tests
  13. Glyphs
  14. Graphing, charts, tables
  15. Showing science experiment results
  16. Creative writing – add a line
  17. Use Visor to go over practice tests/problems highlighting one item at a time
  18. End-of-Year video showing progress of work
  19. As an overhead projector
  20. Step-by-step math problem solving
  21. Displaying student work
  22. Comparison activities using split-screen
  23. Slide show presentations
  24. Class Web-Quests
  25. Vocabulary & Decoding/Comprehension with box feature
  26. Storyboarding
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Educational Videos for K-12

Posted by tropin on September 21, 2009

Free Online Educational Videos and Lessons

http://www.neok12.com/

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Lost World

Posted by tropin on September 10, 2009

 

Giant rats, tiny parrots found in ‘lost world’

The Bosavi wooly rat is as big as a house cat and has no fear of humans.<br /> <em>(Jonny Keeling/BBC)</em>

08/09/2009 3:05:49 PM

CBC News
An expedition to what’s being called a lost world inside an extinct volcano in Papua New Guinea has discovered more than 40 new species, including giant rats, frogs with fangs and a new species of bat.

 Mount Bosavi in the rainforest of Papua New Guinea is an extinct volcano 2.7 kilometres high, with a crater one kilometre deep and four kilometres wide. Life inside has evolved isolated from the outside world for 200,000 years, the last time the volcano erupted.
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