Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0’

Incredibox is Incredibly Cool!

29, Apr 2010

While poking around on the interwebs this evening I stumbled across a very fun interactive music composition tool. Incredibox is a loop creation tool that provides you with a sweet collection of individual components you can mix, match, cycle and recycle as you build a musical passage that grabs your happiness. The sounds are divided [...]

Xtranormal Animation

11, Dec 2009

Students in the DreamExtreme classroom have been exploring a web-based tool called Xtranormal.com. Xtranormal allows a person to use text to create an animation sequence. The user is able to select a character, background, voice, and other video and audio elements. It also allows you to add actions, camera angles and other semi-cinematic elements. Above, [...]

VoiceThread in the DreamExtreme Classroom

12, Sep 2009

I had a bit of wonderful news today. As I mentioned in an earlier post, a classroom subscription for VoiceThread was being given away by the company itself and Lee Kolbert of the GeekyMomma Blog. In a Twitter update and blog post today, Ms. Kolbert announced that the DreamExtreme class had been selected to win [...]

Finding Our Voice(Thread)

28, Aug 2009

Survive. It’s a good goal for all of us. I mean, it’s pretty obvious that to accomplish anything in life we’ve got to survive just to be able to start the next day…right? As a teacher, my first several years in the classroom could be described as survival years…just getting through each day so we [...]

(Mind) Mapping The Year

28, Aug 2009

The Good News: There are many big things in the works for this school year. The Bad News: It’s awfully easy to lose track of all those big things in the busyness of teaching and learning. The Need: Find a way to map out what we’re going to do that will keep us organized and [...]


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