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Over the past several months I’ve begun to do more reading than I’ve done, maybe ever. What’s made this possible? A Personal Learning Environment powered by an RSS reader. There are several tools to help you create your own PLE, notably Google Reader and PageFlakes, but the one that I like best is NetVibes. Before [...]

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I’ve had an IM set up from my students for five years now. One of the best by-products is that my former students hit me up from time to time. Without sharing too much information, I want to share a conversation that I had with one of my students last week. He is a special [...]

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This video is from someone’s .mac account. Pay close attention to the students. What they’re saying, who they are, and then realize that this video is already three years old. As Daren Draper asks, Are You Paying Attention? Well are ya, teach?

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Last night my father called me asking how to download a video from YouTube. It was the Wendy’s commercial about measuring the wrong thing. He was tired of looking for it on my blog and wanted a copy on his computer. Now, there’s another story here about how to use a service called Zamzar, or [...]

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Huge hat-tip to Steve Dembo at teach42.com. You can now add narration to your slide shows at SlideShare. They call it a “SlideCast”. I’m not going to go on about how the person from SlideShare used Camtasia to show how to do something on his site that it now does, but um… Hey SlideShare crew! [...]

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