From 10-23-8 TEAM Notes

10-23-8 Excerpts from TEAM Notes

Castle Learning by Billy
Deadlines
Create classes
Give student-specific assignments
Database of questions w/hints & reasons
Date & time completed

Paperless Classroom by Christine
Vision (software)
Takes the cake over Sychron-eyes!
Google Translate – very powerful!

Perri Nation - Conference at West Hampton Beach
Shifting the paradigm…
Teachers are no longer the gate keepers of the knowledge
Constructing knowledge
Inquiry-based
Teachers as facilitators!
…Guides on the side!
Professional development is huge – collegial sharing is the best way to educate each other especially by contact area!
Philosophy on education is important!
Willingness to take risks!

Audacity (Garage Band for Macs) by Perri
Sound recorder
Great for podcasts…
Narrate your blogs…
Stereo – 2 tracks
http://www.soundzabound.com/ royalty free music
edit, then import as one item
MovieMaker = free video editing software included with Microsoft
Voice recording in monoral (single track)
Formats – MP3 (compression to play on the web), .wav, etc. depending on the output!
?site to get permissions? P.Liss
LAME - extract…find the LAME encoder…unzipped folder…ONLY ONCE!
Audacity – Tech Notes from Dr. Byrne
If mic is not recognized…
Project is a bunch of stuff before export; the raw & dirty work
Podcast – Published as a certain format to the podcast server in the sky (the renderer)…i-tunes…RSS feeds…same as rendering a movie project…export-out…time consuming…synthesize pieces…VOD (vodcast) = high end
Expand timeline to edit, easier to see…clunk a pencil (or other as an actual audio marker) or add an electronic marker
Project - Finish the sentence, “My best example of design is…because…”