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My video is not yet on Teacher Tube (Jr Vase 2010)but it was really easy to upload.
My post about it is before-my computer started acting up so I had to close.

Teacher Tube

I just uploaded a video to Teacher Tube-I created it in animoto and posted it under fine arts-It is called Jr Vase 2010 and this is an art competion that is side by side with UIL. It is an excellent event. Students create art, answer written questions about the art work, then talk one on one with a judge about their art work. They are then rated on their art work and their interveiw. A 4 is a top gold medal winner and these images are all 4s. Team is for prek-5th grade, Jr Vase 6-8,and high school Vase 9=12. All 4s from jr Vase and HS Vase are then judged a second time and the top picks from the second round earn a regional medal. The HS regional winner then have their art work judged a third time at State Vase which has art from all over the state. From the State winners earning a 4, the very best of these 4s earn a gold seal. This year the MFA Houston is hosting the gold seal winners July 15-through mid Aug.
having computer problems-will restart.

thing 3

I played with cool iris yesterday-It will be a huge help in my classroom but I need to check to see if you can set "safe search" before I allow my students to use it. It makes the images so much easier to view.I learned about cool iris on the 10 classroom distruptions blog which I enjoyed reading. Last night I watch a show that had a college classroom using phones to take notes and find reaserch-it tied right into this blog.

I did not try Skype since I do not have a webcam but I know a lot of people who do and they all love it. This could be a great way to contact a museum that has a major show and have a docent talk to my class about it. Using a computer projector and external speakers, the images could be veiwable to the whole class. I could contact an artist who would be willing to give a video dmonstration to my class and the students could work along with the master teacher. I see this as a great tool for all subject areas. It would also be fun to interact with students in a different country.

My sister's family all use this as a way to stay in touch with her son in California.

Thing 2

I have had so much fun today-but computer issues continue to interupt my play. Lots of freezing and work lost.
Wordle is so much fun and fast, wordshift is interesting but I am not so sure I would use it. I think a core teacher would love to use this.
Glogster again was fun but it took me awhile to figure out how everything worked.
My favorite was the Voki-will def. use the Voki in my class-will also use glogster and wordle-I used wordle in a presentation this summer and everybody enjoyed using it-I like the tip about printing the screen-hadn't thought of that.
Am going to see if I remember how to add to my blog.
Does anyone know how to save this blog but awitch the whole thing over to gmail? Yahoo and my laptop do not get along and I must use yahoo to get into my blog.

Thing 1

I see this video as the wave of the future and I need to understand how all of this works to keep up with my students. I have used the power of photostory and animoto both in my classroom and at presentations. And have started but not completed a voice thread presentation.
This video is very simple-straight forward-and easy to understand. It is going to make me go back to last summer's work and reveiw the news feed-I had a lot of trouble with that part plus the fact that I did all this work in Yahoo and my lap top won't work with Yahoo-Geek can't tell me why so I switched to gmail-now this won't open in gmail-could this be like the PC Mac thing?
Last week at CEDFA, we created a short video like this with video, audio, voice over, and text-it was a lot of fun and can toghether with ease. I also observed my students this year creating computer videos in many of their classes.
Could a librarian be the teacher-they already are teachers in mu opinion and I have been fortunate to know and admire several that I have worked with