Dan Weinstein has put together a simple but effective tutorial on Audacity using uploaded photos in his flickr account. Nice innovative use of flickr. While products like Camtasia, Wink and Windows Media Encoder are much more powerful screencasting tools, I like the simplicity of using...

Kathy Cassidy writes: Today we commented on the articles written by a grade one class in Manitoba. One of the children in that class hadn’t written an article since Christmas. I had to smile when one of my student’s comments to that child’s blog was “Christmas is past. Write something new.” Now there is a student who understands what...

Joining with David Warlick, Ewan, Miguel, Wes, and Darren, I’m looking to create and tell the new story. The new story about how learning happens, how technology changes the nature of teaching and learning. I’m looking and I have a few potential stories but too often I’m finding old stories. Our provincial teachers association publishes a monthly...

Well, I’ve finally made the switch to my own space. Let me show you around: First, you’ll notice my new address. I purchased the domain, ideasandthoughts.org. Then I set up my site on my reseller account through webserve.ca. Then thanks to Rob Wall, installed WordPress 2.0. [WordPress 2.0] has an absolutely wonderful import tool which brought all my...

Martha asked me about recording her voice for her blog. So now she’s a podcaster! I showed her Audacity and a few basic controls and she recorded her first podcast. We placed some music as a background track, uploaded the file to ourmedia, installed a little player and voila! I submitted her podcast to itunes so soon it will be subscribeable. The content...