http://dcnavis.edublogs.org Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:34:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's another animoto slide show that was produced by the MS media crew after school. http://dcnavis.edublogs.org/2009/11/11/ms-halloween-with-animoto/ 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 ... http://dcnavis.edublogs.org/2009/11/10/animoto-is-fun/ 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. http://dcnavis.edublogs.org/2009/11/09/playing-with-prezi/ 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 ... http://dcnavis.edublogs.org/2009/11/01/insane-bike-riding/ 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 ... http://dcnavis.edublogs.org/2009/09/24/294/ 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 ... http://dcnavis.edublogs.org/2009/09/14/implementing-a-1-2-1-laptop-program/ 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. http://dcnavis.edublogs.org/2009/05/29/travel-season-is-here-be-prepared/ http://dcnavis.edublogs.org/2009/05/26/great-educational-quotes/ 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 ... http://dcnavis.edublogs.org/2009/05/22/servant-leadership/ 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 ... http://dcnavis.edublogs.org/2009/04/14/cog-and-variables/