Monday, June 29, 2009
random links
1. http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/1983276.html
Burning moms use humor to push for education reforms in CA, article, SacBee
2. http://www.scribd.com/full/16131411?access_key=key-1qm6yl6zipbh3ow4ovv3
Using the Cell phone, Susan's pres.
3. http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2009/06/26/04classroomlook_necc09.h02.html
Transforming Classrooms...EdWeek article
4. http://bloggingandsocialmedia.blogspot.com/2009/05/building-your-twitter-network.html
Building your Twitter network, Nik Peachey
5. http://www.moroccoboard.com/news/34-news-release/559-the-last-jews-of-essaouira
Last Jews of Essaouira, article, Moroccoboard
6. http://www.cogdogblog.com/stuff/50ways/edmedia09.html
50 ways to tell a story
7. http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history.html
Clay Shirkey's TED talk: how cellphones, twitter, fb make history
8. http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-06/mind-reading-tech-way
Mind Reading technology (article)
9. http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/reports/nielsen_howteensusemedia_june09.pdf
How teens use media (Nielsen report)- pdf
10. http://www.google.com/mail/help/tips.html#utm_source
Gmail tips
11. http://www.lexiophiles.com/language-blog-toplist/top-100-language-blogs-2009-nomination-started
Top 100 language blogs
Friday, June 05, 2009
Audacity
My audacity experience: I put it here, because this is a private site, and I promised my students
that these were private files. They are, however, the only audacity files I have, at the moment.
bigfishclass
Students recorded stories into audacity files, which then became these bundles (which are stored,
for free, here at fileden). Unfortunately they are stored in small bundles, and they aren't marked
well. It's impossible to tell when one student stopped and another started. Finally, I never even
finished uploading them; that took 30 minutes just to do the files you see (which represent about
a third of the class) and I simply didn't have the time.
Not what you'd call a success. Put them in MP3; put them on Voxopop; or find a place that will combine
them, and make a larger file. Audacity has fairly high quality; at least the studio we did this in had high
quality; I'm not sorry we did it. But, students by and large have not been pounding down our doors.
And now fileden says: log on once a month, or you're out of here. "Log on" implies running through and
rejecting a number of advertisements. No thanks. I think I'll let it go....
