Free online file conversion

This is a handy Website for file conversion. It's a one-stop place for convertion document, music, image, and vedio files.

Check it out:
http://www.zamzar.com/

Online Game for Politics and History Courses

Just saw an article about an online game for politics and history courses. It is called, "Fantasy Congress"

http://www.fantasycongress.us/fc/

The article can be found at:

http://news.com.com/2100-1043_3-6129291.html

A couple new things emerging on the horizon....

• This one is about Citizendium - another Wikipedia - article about this is located at http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6126469.html - the actual Web site - http://www.citizendium.com/
  
• Google Docs and Spreadsheets - http://docs.google.com/
  With Google Docs & Spreadsheets, you can:
  
• Use their online editor to format documents, spell-check and more.
• Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text.
• Download documents to your desktop as Word, PDF and more.
• View your documents' revision history and roll back to any version.
• Invite others to share your documents by e-mail address.
• Edit documents online with whomever you choose.
• Publish documents online to the world, or to just who you choose.
• Post your documents to your blog.

This will be beneficial to students who do not have the software applications on their computers. BTW, this works better using the Firefox browser than IE. I really couldn't see the tool bar in IE (everything jumbled together). This could depend upon the resolution of the computer being used. I just received a new laptop and haven't had time to find the best resolution for me.

That's it for now. dk

iTunesU now for K12

iTunesU – now for K-12

This is an article about iTunesU being used as a community outreach with K-12 schools. UCF now has iTunesU but we’re still in the process of getting it set up.

http://eschoolnews.com/news/showStoryts.cfm?ArticleID=6452

Podcasting at Calhoun

Podcasting at Calhoun – works with WebCT

Calhoun is using something called Tegrity. Learned about this at the WebCT conference in Chicago. Need to check into it.

http://www.enewscourier.com/homepage/local_story_202213047.html?keyword=leadpicturestory

Email Is The New Snail Mail

E-mail Is The New Snail Mail???

Just read an article today that text messaging and IM are creeping into the most used means of communicating. Students don’t want to communicate via email but continue to do so for parents, teachers, etc.

Here is the address of the article:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/07/18/D8IUIUPO9.html

Video for Podcasts in iTunes

This is a video on how to bring podcasts into iTunes.

http://learnoutloud.castpost.com/PodcastItunes2.swf

New educational site for using wikis in education:

http://www.ikiw.org/