Links for 2006-10-24 [Furl]: ”
- Catching loose MP3s with Greasemonkey and del.icio.us
Via Jon Udell, very nicely done short screencast ‘recipe’ — this particular one is handy too.
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(Via Abject Learning.)
Links for 2006-10-24 [Furl]
Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom:
Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom:: “Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom:
Joe Dale offers practical tips and advice on using ICT to enhance the teaching of modern foreign languages
Presentation Trick
academhack: Presentations III
July 21st, 2006
Yet another trick for making easy presentations. Again involving a flash drive. At times when I teach or present all I want to display is a serious of quotes, just text, or text with simple pictures. What I do in this case, is type out all the quotes in a large font, so they fit onto one page. Now, I have single sheets of paper, each with one quote on them that I want to use. Here is the trick–export the file to a .pdf (on a Mac this is really is, all you need to do is select print and than click the .pdf button at the bottom left). Now that it is saved as a .pdf it is readable by any computer with a .pdf viewer (Adobe Acrobat). But wait there is more, also you can put a .pdf viewer onto your flash drive, like foxitreader (PC) or pdfviewer (Mac), these are both really small, allow you to resize the window and/or view it full screen, simple navigation forward or back one page, and are free. Now using any com”
Moresukine
I keep seeming to bump into Dirk Schwieger’s amazing weekly comic livejournal assignment of his year in Tokyo – scheduled to end in October 2006.
Reading the interview on Sequential Tart, in addition to explaining the name Moresukine, gave me the sense that this is young artist worth paying attention to.
An interesting sort of vlogg
MobuzzTV was found on the British Council site from Rome which was originally linked to in a message on the Podcasting ELT list.
Don’t forget to check this one
Actually, this is sort of note to self sort of thing. Seems like I’ve come to use this blog as a placeholder for things I want to blog about or think about at a later time.
Sharon’s EF Integrated Academic Skills blog crossed my radar again today. I linked to it a couple of weeks ago. Her class looks like a both of fun – from either the the student or instructor perspective!!
Once again, a great dose of inspiration from the Webheads!
Podcasting a Speech Class
I think I talked about wanting to do something with a public speaking class and podomatic a while back. It looks like Aiden has figured a great way to do exactly what I had in mind. Way to go Aiden!
Check this one…
Sharon from the Webheads in Action group posted a link to this “MotherShip” blog she has set up for some of her students in a pre-masters academic preparation program in Brighton Massachusetts.
