Qwiki

Just under the wire - for today:

Qwiki Creator: Create the textbook of the future with a few clicks: Play the Qwiki: Anastasis Academy What it is... bit.ly/MarTkl
— Ed Tweeps (@Edtweeps) June 29, 2012

Sounds interesting - thanks to Ed Tweeps (!) for the heads up -
Read more about it at Free Technology for Teachers -

Read on EdSurge today....

Most retweeted tweet at ISTE:

 @sjunkins: I have yet to have a student tell me they can't use technology in class because they haven't received any PD on it. #ISTE12

Play2Learn - SoundCloud

Yesterday I played with ImageSpike after reading a tweet by Richard Byrne.  In the accompanying post  on his blog he referenced thinglink, so I thought I would look at that today.


When I was looking at the gallery of finished projects I noticed someone had included links to sound files powered by SoundCloud.  So I signed up and am thinking of ways to include SoundCloud in the classroom next year.

Two birds with one stone today -

Play2Learn - imageSpike

Thanks to Richard Byrne (and his blog FreeTechnology for Teachers) for sharing information about imageSpike:

ImageSpike allows you to upload an image, place pin marks on it, put text and links into those pin marks, and share your new interactive images. 

this is different...

Saw this tweet this morning....

Here is what I believe should be standardized for every student bit.ly/KWjDVr #iste12
— Michael Kaechele (@mikekaechele) June 25, 2012

How cool is this tag cloud?  I can't believe I hadn't seen it before.  I signed up - Tagul 

Looks interesting...

I just signed up for Remind101... from their website:

How does remind101 work?

Great question! First, a teacher adds his/her class, which generates a unique code. The teacher then shares that code with students or parents. At that point, any student or parent who sends a text message with the code will be "subscribed" to the teacher's class. Any time a teacher sends a message from remind101, all the students or parents subscribed will receive it. This short videoexplains it A-Z.

How did I get here?

Sometimes I don't even know where I find things to play with...
I should take screenshots of my browser history just to remember how I got from point A to point B...

I read a tweet over the weekend... that took me to top sites for teacher productivity....that had something about pearltrees... so I signed up to play later and did a search....nothing much on art ed... so I must have tried technology... and that took me to apps in education...which took me to a wiki page with a Glog "Welcome to 60 in 60! This site is a presentation created by Brandon Lutz.  60 in 60 is a fast paced presentation that goes over 60 technology tools in 60 minutes."

But that's not even what I noticed.  It was the little flag on the side that allowed voicemail comments.  Which I hadn't seen before, so I clicked to find out what 'powered' it and ended up with a SpeakPipe account for my blog.

So - it's not that I was looking for that, it just found me.
I need to take a screenshot.

The highest solution doesn’t come from your mind but through it. 

Who knows where the inspiration originates? 

Will I be ready?