Technology Director

Synchtube allows you to create public and private rooms where you can watch synchronzied YouTube videos with up to 50 people. Everyone views the same video at the exact same time!
This means you could discuss a video in a distance learning class watching it together.  You can drag the bookmarklet to your bookmark bar and immediately take your YouTube video into your room.  Send the link off and view / discuss together.

The article posted on the Washingtonpost.com Answer Sheet is worth a read and discussion.
So, with No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top as models, let’s set performance standards for — all other canine capabilities and train all dogs to meet them. All 400 breeds. All skills. Leave No Dog Behind!

Two-hundred-pound Mastiffs may have a little trouble with the chase-the-fox-down-the-hole standard, and Chihuahuas will probably have difficulty with the tackle-the-felon-and-pin-him-to-the-ground standard.
But All children must meet all standards…..

Take a read and what do you think?
Dogs: An unusual guide to school reform

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Collections of author interviews by Don Swaim (For many years, most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim’s CBS Radio studio in New York. The one-on-one interviews typically lasted 30 to 45 minutes and then had to be edited down to a two-minute radio show. Wired for Books is proud to make these important oral documents publicly available for the first time in their entirety. Listen to the voices of many of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Visit the Wired for Books Don Swaim Page.) is just one of the great resources found on Wired for Books supported by Ohio University. 

Lectures – Short Stories – Poetry – Dramatic Readings – Kids’ Corner (featuring stories of Beatrix Potter) most read by the authors!  You can even hear The Iliad – Book I by Homer  read in ancient Greek by Stanley Lombardo.

With the expansion of mp3 players across the spectrum of learners, sites like this are invaluable to educators and even the general public. 

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Your online clipboard. Capture any area on the screen using a Quick Area Capture system. It intercepts windows copy and cut operations (unless told to sleep). It captures from a scanner - iClippy lets you paste your clipped screenshot into email, twitter and more.  And there is a Beta for imaging via Google Apps tray and sidebar.  It is however, only for Windows at this point.  and free for 100 images.

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I returned to SnagFilms today after reading a post by Richard Byrne.
Richard mentioned that you can now build a playlist to embed into your blog or wiki.  Although after a short intro they take you to SnagFilm to view the entire clip, it is a good way for teachers to collect information for students that may have missed a class presentation.There are some opening advertisements on SnagFilms, but I have not found any that would deter from educational viewing.

I gave it a try using Animals as my topic.  I like the results.

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Some of this is already here! 
and we wonder if we should change our way of teaching??????  NO WONDER, we should change our way of teaching!!!!

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About this talk

Today’s math curriculum is teaching students to expect — and excel at — paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. At TEDxNYED, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think.

Thanks to @rmbyrne, Richard Byrne (Teacher and Web apps junky. )Google Certified Teacher and his tweet today:  

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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to
think about besides homework.  ~Lily Tomlin as “Edith Ann”

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively
unnecessary. ~Thomas Carruthers

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his
influence stops.  ~Henry Adams

Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go
around.  ~Helen Peters

A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way
for others.  ~Author Unknown