http://schoolsyte.com Connecting schools to the Web Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:59:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Appearances can be deceiving! Does your children know who owns the websites that they're retrieving information from? Do you? Do you know how to get the information? In this short video Alan November discloses in a workshop he conducted for parents at the Harvey School who really owns the top ... http://schoolsyte.com/november-websites/ Raising our children to be global thinkers in a world that is very different from what we grew up in is what technology guru Alan November believes will best prepare American students for today's world. And that’s not the only skill that's important. Being able to deal with “massive” amounts of ... http://schoolsyte.com/november-skills-children/ In this fourth of ten (10) videos on podcasting with GarageBand, Dave Brown shows you why in addition to the GarageBand software Preferences, you'll probably need to alter your computer's System Preferences before getting started. You'll also learn how to lay down your first vocal track, add some background ... http://schoolsyte.com/podcasting-garageband4/ This is the third in a series of ten (10) video tutorials on how to create a podcast with GarageBand. In this video Aussie Dave Brown shows you how to set up the Preferences section of the software. According to Dave, it's important that you edit the Audio component ... http://schoolsyte.com/podcasting-garageband-3/ This is the second in a series of ten (10) videos that will teach you how to create a podcast using GarageBand v. 3+ on your Macintosh. In this video Dave Brown introduces you to the GarageBand interface. He'll show you how to start a new podcast and will explain ... http://schoolsyte.com/podcasting-garageband-2/ Sometimes the better tact is "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." That's what University of Washington-Bothell professor Martha Groom discovered when she came up with a unique way of tapping into the colossal online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Now one of a few teachers embracing this mammoth, web-based resource, professor ... http://schoolsyte.com/teacher-wikipedia/ This is the first in the series of ten (10) video tutorials created by Dave Brown of Adelaide, Australia. The series is really all you need to know about creating podcasts using a Mac and GarageBand version 3.0 and newer. You'll meet Dave and get to know his great Australian ... http://schoolsyte.com/garageband-podcast1/ It's easy podcasting on a PC, but it's a cinch using Mac's GarageBand, Version 3+. Apple has made it ridiculously easy to record voice; add chapters, image, web links (or a video for a vodcast) for an enhanced podcast; and lay down background music with a great feature called "ducking" ... http://schoolsyte.com/mac-podcasting/ There's a lot of buzz today about podcasting and the value it brings to education. But what exactly is podcasting and what is its relevance in today's classrooms? Podcasting is an easy way to broadcast multimedia content online to a dispersed group of people, who are then able to listen whenever ... http://schoolsyte.com/podcasting-tutorial/ Are you tired of the same old boring book reports or book reviews? Sure, educators try to make them more exciting with posters, diaramas, or other creative alternatives to the hand- or type-written version, but they're still not very exciting. Why not try what these students did as an option ... http://schoolsyte.com/book-report/