Screen-casting from iPad or iPhone

My 3rd grade son, Charlie, found a way to screen-cast on iOS devices.  This is what he showed me.  Follow instructions at your own risk.  Not advocating these actions.  Just impressed that he figured this out on his own.  He … Continue reading →

Making it legit: Videonot.es

Videonot.es is an underutilized online resource that saves projects automatically to your Google Drive.  Using this resources is easy as pie. First, connect your Google Drive account and import a useful YouTube video.  Then, start taking notes on the right … Continue reading →

Disconnecting Student’s Work From Their Dreams

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Those who share power, weaken themselves, but those who share wisdom strengthen each other – Niccolo Machiavelli I came across a great article this morning and, later, a tweet from Mr. Voyles, a teacher on my ex-wife’s elementary campus, that … Continue reading →

I heart my #PLN -OR- If Twitter were a woman I would court her.

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I consider myself a connected educator. However, I’m still blown away by what that means in today’s world. Earlier today, in Texas I GHO’ed with a cool lady in Tennessee and Voxered with a cool principal in Minnesota.  Then, I … Continue reading →

Stich.It Is Pretty Much Awesome Sauce!

This weekend #TxGoo met and, as I usually do when educators I admire get together, I stalked them like cray! Aimee Bartis tweeted out a curious link to a video concerning “stich.it”.  I was immediately floored!  There are so many … Continue reading →

Making It Pop! App Smashing Aurasma + Sphere

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The Greatness of #CatBread After our TCEA presentation in Austin, back in February, we received a few requests for tutorials one how to make Aurasma perform certain actions.  One of the more popular ones was making a “Sphere” pop out … Continue reading →

Teleology + Wikis = Classwide Collaborative Essays

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Teleology is basically the study of how everything fits, from top to bottom, within a system. Since I’m a “big picture” kind of guy, I tend to present topics or units to my students from the bird’s eye view and … Continue reading →

Sphere – Teachers, you need to download this App

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(NOTE: TourWrist is now know as Sphere) The gang of, as of yet, unprosecuted hoodlums I hang out with and I are always on the lookout for innovative apps even if they aren’t intentionally or primarily education related. Aurasma was … Continue reading →

A little #Ignite13 Extra

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If you were in attendance at our Aurasma presentation, here’s a little something we’ve been working on. The idea is to place several invisible overlays over various parts of the image. That way, when your student taps on one planet, … Continue reading →

Ignite13 Aurasma Handouts (#IgniteAurasma on Twitter)

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We’ve posted this on Twitter, but in case you missed it… Here are the two handouts from today’s 90 minute Aurasma presentation. Remember, Aurasma isn’t simply a variation of the QR Code. Aurasma is… well, you get the above point. … Continue reading →