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Back from the dead!

There was this site that was pretty amazing when it came online way back in 2004.  It was unlike most other sites available but then it just languished.  Not much happened with the site for years.  Until now...

This site now makes Google+ and iCloud seem like small potatoes.  They will give you a few gigs of storage for free which is laughable when you compare it to the 1 terabyte of free storage that flickr will give you.

Take a look at this post to read about what they now offer.

I am going to take all my images and upload them here.  Why?  Another way to back them up for free and I am very excited to see where Yahoo! will go next.

(They also just purchased tumblr for a little over a billion dollars.  Yahoo might just be a company to watch.)

Who is with me on this?  Flickr all the way!

Happy Birthday!

Today youtube turns 8.

The amazing fact of the day.  There are 100 hours of content uploaded to youtube every single minute.

Do people still buy music?

The Google I/O 2013 conference kicked off today with an amazing 3 hour keynote.  This conference is focused on developers but they did talk about some things today that I find fascinating and it got me thinking about music.  I have not directly purchased music in years. (I DO NOT download any music from any type of torrent site.)   I still listen to a lot through various streaming services.  Right now I pay for Pandora and Spotify.

Today a new service was introduce by Google called Google Play Music All Access.   I did sign up for this one as well because there is a free trial.

This prompted me into thinking about how people consume music today.  Back in the day I had stacks and stacks of cassette tapes, CDs and even Mini Disks.  I always thought it was a hassle.  Now I am not sure I really own much music because it is much easier for me to use the cloud to store and manage the tracks.

I still wonder if people buy music anymore.  Why do you buy the physical copies?  Do you buy music?  Honest questions I am thinking about.

Google Docs Greatness

Two Amazing New Tools to Explore in Google Docs

Docs Voice Comments

This tool allows for teachers or other students to leave comments on a shared document.  This would be a powerful tool to allow for collaboration when students and/or teachers cannot conduct face to face conferences.

VideoNot.es

This great new tool allows you to open a YouTube video on the left side of the screen and then take notes on the right side.  The best part?  It is integrated with Google Docs so your notes are saved right in your  Google Drive.  In addition, students could collaboratively take notes together.  This would be an excellent tool for the flipped classroom as students are watching the videos at home.  

To get started, go to VideoNote.es and click on the "Create your notes" icon.  

This site is so easy to use and directions pop us as you are getting started.

A Little Motivation

Need 2 minutes of inspiration?  Check out this video.  As we are closing out one school year and beginning to prepare for another, just remember these words of wisdom.

 

fuselearning - this might just be the most amazing thing...

We learned about this yesterday while in a meeting with the Rolla Public Schools.  It is like Socrative but infuselearning enables you to do so much more.  Take a look at the video to see the possibilities.

Google Maps - New Layer!

This is a pretty cool idea.  There is a new layer you can enable in your google maps.  Just think of all the ways you could use this with your class.  I wonder how many will use this on summer break.  Maybe set up a class blog so the students can record what they see and find.

Update: gmail blue

A huge update to gmail!  This is pretty interesting.  Sometimes the red in gmail is simply too much.

What's that smell?

There are many reasons why google is so far ahead of everyone else.  I really love my android devices and using chome on my laptop.  Then something like this arrives and I am so excited about it!

What this video and be blown away!  The future never smelled so good!

Cellphone - Is The Name Outdated?

photo - jory

Found this article today.  Has a very interesting graph on it.  Shows how cellphones are being used.  The only thing is that voice calls didn't show up as one of its uses.

What do we call them?  Smart Device? Device?

A Frog + the Web = Recording?

This was posted on our iPad blog today.  This site is an app and accessible on the web.

How might you use this in your classroom?



The best part of this site is it limits the recording to 30 seconds!

Super Powers of Tomorrow

A few teachers shared this with me.  I had to share this.  What do you think?  Seriously.  What do you think of this?

Socrative + Wordle = Power!

This post in the Socrative Garden describes how to visualize the text your class inputs into your Socrative questions.


Pro Tip - Use wordle to cut/paste the presidential/historical speeches into.  You will be amazed at the results.

Who loves to share?

What is Socrative?
This smart student response system empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.



Sharing Quizzes
For those of you who are using Socrative in your classrooms, did you know you could share the quizzes you create with your colleagues?  When you create a quiz, in the settings it will ask if you want to enable sharing. Then you will get a SOC #.  Share this with others to tell them about your quizzes, and they can then import the quizzes to use with their classes.

You can also share with Socrative Garden.  Click here to share your quiz with the Socrative Community.  Once you share one, you get a link to the spreadsheet of quizzes people have already shared.   Awesome!