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Monthly Archives November 2008

Because I Promised

It is the day before Thanksgiving break and I teach Intro Psych at noon. I have been using my Blackberry to record and then post my lectures. I decide to take advantage of the situation and capture this picture of my class (presently enrolled estimated at 180). What about extra credit, Dr. Grabe? No, but [...]

Posted 26 November 2008 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

No excuse needed – these topics are related

While Learning Aloud is focused on education and technology, I frequently digress. Sometimes the topics are unrelated personal issues. Sometimes the topics focus on important issues I feel a need to identify. Tom Friedman has received a lot of attention on this blog. For me, he raises issues of tremendous importance and he offers what [...]

Posted 26 November 2008 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Mix and Rip Learners

Contrary to what you might surmise from reading what my wife describes as rather pessimistic posts, I am as taken by the potential of social networking and collective intelligence as the next guy (or gal or whatever). Sometimes all I have to evaluate the proposals of others are my own experiences (often based in the [...]

Posted 25 November 2008 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

XtraNormal – Avatar-Based Movies – Write Your Own

My previous post invited you to view a very creative project intro developed by a couple of Grand Forks teachers. Their mini-movie was created using a new online resource called xtranormal. xtranormal allows users to script avatar-based movies. The narrative is generated by typing a script. You can select camera angles and the set. The [...]

Posted 25 November 2008 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Blog Project Starter

Check this interesting blog project starter created by a couple of Grand Forks teachers. I will offer more information on the unique technology used in a future post.

Posted 22 November 2008 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Search my stuff

Google offers a new customized/personalized search tool you can set up to search self-designated content. Why might such a tool be useful? I suppose because you want to focus the search activities of users. Hence, I might want to offer a service allowing you to search this blog (and to do so in a more [...]

Posted 21 November 2008 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

MacArthur Foundation – Digital Youth Report

The MacArthur Foundation has released the comprehensive results of multiple ethnographic studies describing and evaluating adolescent use of technology. In total, the report is quite positive and indicates that adolescents make productive use of the Internet and technology devices for personal learning and in what the report describes as “friendship-driven” social activities. While the focus [...]

Posted 21 November 2008 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: