Yes, I know......I don't typically post on weekends but I thought it best to post these follow-ups and great resources that I gleaned from the PNAIS Conference sooner rather than later. So, it may be Saturday, but here they are! :-)The following are listed for my own sake so I have some record of some things mentioned that I want to keep for one reason or another, in no particular order:
Portable MP3 player -- Olympus DM-20 digital recorder (CD quality audio, MP3 or WMA formats, highly portable, 45 hours recording time), remote control doubles as external mic (!), USB docking station
International Radio Project -- Is this the correct site where one can get student podcasts distributed? a very brief visit to radioproject.org didn't look like it . check into
Wireless mice for use in classroom -- Gyration is company (http://www.gyration.com/en-US), recommended product (at UPA) is one of their air mice (and possibly wireless keyboard) -- possible alternative to SmartBoards
Pixma i9900 (Canon) color inkjet printer was highly recommend especially coupled with after-market ink tank system (not sure where to find this)
PaperCut program for monitoring printer usage on network -- http://www.papercut.biz/pcpl/free_print_logger.htm
Hamachi.cc -- easy vpn
UW Classroom Presenter -- software tool helping make the use of tablet pcs much more interactive in class -- http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/dl/presenter/
Getting Started Guide is at: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/edtech/presenter/doc/gscp.htm#connecting
Streaming video from Annenberg Library (Annenberg Media Leaner.org) -- http://www.learner.org/
Wikimapia -- combination of a wiki and Google Maps -- http://www.wikimapia.org/
Edline mentioned as possible alternative to Moodle: http://www.edline.com/
Webhosting possibilities -- bluehost.com http://www.bluehost.com/
and what I thought was littleorange.com but could only find asmallorange.com http://www.asmallorange.com/
Ruby on Rails -- open source programming tool http://www.rubyonrails.org/
and Ruby -- object-oriented programming http://www.rubycentral.com/
Designing Web Projects and/or Digital Assignments -- WebQuest Taskonomy -- http://webquest.sdsu.edu/taskonomy.html
point teachers here for food for thought as they design assignments using technology
Student Video Editing resources -- AFI Screen Education site -- http://afi.edu/ (American Film Institute)
Atomic Learning was also mentioned
Other video resource -- ScanTV -- http://www.scantv.org/ (which is Seattle Community Access Network)
one person said they came out and did a video-taping project at his school, brought all the equipment, etc.
Online bookmark, collaboration resources (folksonomy? [wikepedia definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy ] such as
Connotea ( http://www.connotea.org/ ) and del.icio.us ( http://del.icio.us/ )
