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MS Halloween with Animoto

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Here’s another animoto slide show that was produced by the MS media crew after school.

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Animoto is fun

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

This week I had some time to play with a free 2.0 software … ANIMOTO. What a great tool to have fun with. In a matter of minutes I put this slide show of my family together. In their words … Animoto automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips [...]

Playing with Prezi

Monday, November 9th, 2009

I had a wonderful time today learning to play with PREZI.com a new presentation tool. I took one of my talks, abbreviated it and here’s what I got. I am very pleasantly surprised and am on the road to an upgrade.

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Insane Bike riding

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Every weekend I get out and ride … at 5:30am. Why? I found an article by William Foreman that says it all.
Yahoo! News
Cycling in Chinese city is anything but leisurely
By WILLIAM FOREMAN, Associated Press Writer William Foreman, Associated Press Writer Sat Oct 31, 1:37 pm ET
GUANGZHOU, China – A friend sent me a YouTube link [...]

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

I recently read a post by Dennis Harter from the ISB titled, “Is the term “21st Century”  hurting or helping our cause for thinking, communicating, collaborative thinking“.
In this post, he brings to mind several important considerations. Past models for technology integration generally failed because teachers did not believe it was their job to teach technology.  [...]

Implementing a 1-2-1 laptop program

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Well hello there world! I have moved from Hong Kong International School to the American International School of Guangzhou.back into Middle School and High School.  The move has brought me out of the elementary classroom and into the world of technology integration … well almost.
AISG is still following the 90’s model of stand alone [...]

Travel season is here … be prepared

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Supposedly Air Canada produced the following video. I’m not sure but take a quick peak at how easy it is to break and enter into you luggage … with a pen.

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Great Educational Quotes

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

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Servant Leadership

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

The following speech was given about my son at Whitworth University graduation last weekend by Dr Kathy Storm:
At commencement each year we honor impressive academic accomplishment—and we also recognize a student whose life has left an indelible mark on the community through service. This person, nominated by faculty and staff, has lived out Whitworth’s [...]

Cog and Variables

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

We’re starting a unit on variables in science this week. A great way to get the student interest is by showing how variables can effect the outcome of a project. Honda produced an ad about the Accord in 2003. They called it Cog. There are no computer graphics or digital tricks. Everything you see really [...]