Want to see the impossible? Check out this photo from the Obama inauguration. 
As David Pogue of the NY Times says,
"What’s so cool is that you can pan and zoom in on the resulting mega-photo—way, way in. Can you find Yo-Yo Ma taking a picture with his iPhone?" Use the controls to zoom and pan around the photo. You can also double click to zoom in and double click again to get even closer. Can you find Denzel Washington, PDiddy, or Whoopie Goldberg? It's sort of like a real life Where's Waldo? You can also take a "snapshot" from the photo if you find something or someone you want others to see. Kevin Kelly is right.We have to start believing the unbelievable!
p.s. I borrowed the title "Panoramabama" from Pogue. Just too good not to!
Panoramabama!
Past, Present and Future of the Web
Did you know the World Wide Web has been around LESS than 5000 days? What will the next 5000 days bring? Watch this video for one expert's predictions. "We have to get better at believing the impossible."
Vote for Me
Your classmate Kayla wants you to vote for her in the next election...and her dog Kacie, too!
I HOPE you will!
(Thanks for submitting this, Kayla!)
Extra Credit
This week you're creating a short Powerpoint presentation. If you'd like to earn 10 extra credit points, try uploading your presentation to SlideShare. Make it private (not that it isn't fascinating!) and send me the URL. When you choose to make it visible only to yourself, you'll be given a choice to get a "secret" URL that you can share with me (or anyone else). Send me that URL. Later you'll have a chance to earn another 10 points by embedding it in your wiki, so check "embeddable outside SlideShare" as well.
SlideShare is a way to view thousands of presentations created by others...and you can use them, too! See some of its powerful features here.
Web 2.0 Overview
Later in this course we'll be looking at some Web 2,0 tools. Here's a brief overview of Web 2.0 created in Flowgram, one the great new Web 2.0 presentation tools available--and an alternative to Powerpoint! You might want to explore this tool--or other Web 2.0 tools for your final project or just to make you more productive and more creative!
Using a Mac? NEW 4 U!
If you use a Mac, Apple’s new Find Out How...In the Classroom series gives you a new way to explore what a Mac can do, so you can see how easy it is to incorporate digital teaching and learning into your classes.
Check it out!
Obamacon Yourself
All work and no play makes life boring...
So, in honor of the day, Obamicon yourself!
Here's mine:
Learn About Inspiration - You're Invited!!
In your second project, you'll be using Inspiration or Kidspiration software. The company offers training materials, free trial downloads, lesson plans, a newsletter full of ideas, teacher scholarships and much more. I've been impressed with some of their webcasts, and they have a one coming up you might enjoy. Remember, one of the NETS*T standards is to engage in professional growth and leadership. Here's a good opportunity to do that!
Webcast: Using Visual Learning Techniques to Improve Academic Performance with Inspiration®
Date: Thursday, January 29th, 2009
Time: 12:00-12:45 p.m. Pacific Time, 3:00-3:45 p.m. Eastern Time
Register for this event today!
Inspiration® helps students develop ideas, analyze concepts and improve organizational skills. Join us on January 29th to explore templates and examples that will help your students improve academic performance in Science, Language Arts and Social Studies. Cathy Cuff, our Education Development Manager for Science, will host a complimentary 45-minute webcast demonstrating how you can use Inspiration 8 to:
- Expand on ideas to create well-supported thinking and conclusions
- Build knowledge by increasing comprehension of new concepts
- Increase organizational skills by connecting ideas into a logical hierarchy
Join us for this professional development webcast!
If you are unable to join us, don't worry - the webcast will be archived and available to you shortly after the event concludes. View our archived webcasts!
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