I came across the Immersive Media site at work today and wanted to make sure that I could embed the code into edublogs. (Edublogs has been a bit touchy about embedding code recently)
As you can see below, the embed code works – now all I have to do is persuade the ‘powers that be’ at work that it is a suitable topic to write about on the work blog. Wish me luck!
Instructions: Click the Play button. Wait for the splash screen to play then use your mouse to click and drag to look in any direction in the video.
This first video is
New Guinea Immerse yourself in the native traditional song and dance**
and this is
Fiji Coral Reef Underwater and on deck in the South Pacific.**
On twitter during the week and then on Ewan McIntosh’s and Paul Hamilton’s blog – Animoto now offer a free and fool-proof way to create presentations. It took only a few minutes to create this one – with images I already had online in my flickr account.
This is just one more example of the great tools available to teachers. Create a free account and have some fun
I am currently making use of a lot of the more well known Web 2.0 tools: iGoogle and the rest of the Google suite have simplified the way I work online; flickr, VoiceThread, SlideShare, del.icio.us etc all allow me to access and share resources with fellow educators; and twitter, ning and another nameless social site (beginning with a ‘d’ and ending with an ‘o’ – ask Sue about this) have given me an entry point to a community of like-minded colleagues.
I’ve blogged about Search Crystal previously (on our brand new CMIS Technology Focus blog) and am repeating it here because it’s great.Check out the tour Create an acount for free, explore and learn a new way of searching.
My Year 11 VET English class used this to create collaborative mind maps and collect information from the web for assignments.Here’s the Try it Now SandboxI don’t know how this one has been missed by so many people – it’s worth waiting for the hampster to be bootstrapped!
Schools across Australia are invited to host a 2020 School Summit during the three weeks commencing March 17th 2008. Teachers are asked to encourage their students to articulate and communicate their feelings and ideas for the future of Australia.
CMIS will be posting two separate series of VoiceThreads – one for younger students (middle/ upper primary and early adolescence) and one for older students (Late adolescence).
Both series will consist of 10 separate VoiceThreads, each concentrating on one of the 10 Critical Areas identified for discussion at the Australian 2020 Summit.
We will commence posting the VoiceThreads on Monday March 17th and will continue posting one each working day over the next two weeks. The VoiceThreads will remain available for comment until April 3rd (to allow for comments to be collated and submitted to the Australia 2020 site by the April 4th deadline)
Please feel free to use the introductory VoiceThread below to experiment with creating a VoiceThread account and recording comments.
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