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You can play with my voki by putting your mouse close it it's face-watch the eyes follow your movement. Doesn't take a lot to entertain me!

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Could not watch or go to the first web site-Microsoft stated it could not display it and it removed it from my vision. This is about the third time I have been unable to access links in this class. Not sure why.
Jingle-am trying it but the screen print button seems much faster to me than using this.http://screencast.com/t/ZGEzNGJlMD is a map to SBMS.
I honestly don't see myself using this but it was interesting to watch-and I would use it for giving driving direction. Funny that Google maps doesn't even have my school in the right place and has Spring Forest in the Freeway!

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Did not know that Art Works was online either check it out at http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/hulu/index.php?id=50063055

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PBS ROCKS! I can see art 21 which is a outstanding series on current artists. I bought the entire set of all 5 seasons and use these artists in my class all the time. Had I known they were online-look how much money I could have saved.
I can see this being used a lot but a teacher would have to have a video projector or a smart board-I have a projector but elective teachers will not be given smart boards-yes I know I could use the one in the library but I don't.
Check it out for yourself http://video.pbs.org/searchForm/?q=ART%3A21.

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Blinkx had exactly one video on an artist and you first had to watch a TV commerical before you could see the art clip which was annoning to watch do to the overly viusal background. The story was interesting-something I could share with my students-a guy who paint portraits from life using the brush app for his ipad. http://www.blinkx.com/videos/artists is the link.
The National Archives has frozen so I need to stop and restart my computer-pior to this i couldn't get anything to play nor could I search this so forget this one.

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Ok ya'll have given me just one more reason to want a MAC-I tried to keep and hide my green mac that I used to have in my classroom-I loved it's old school lines! But the ipad is just the coolest thing I have seen. My son has one and I spent time playing with it this week- looking at the aps. It is so easy to use, fast, and such a sharp image. I went to the online apple store and looked under aps for art and low and behold they have the Louvre collection ap and the National Gallery ap-on my son's ipad it was an awesome experience-you can type in a word like hope and it would bring up multi images of paintings that expressed hope-I was looking under Da Vinci so hope gave me 20 Madonna faces painted by him.
I did a photostory during CEDFA on a imac which brought up all kinds of tools that I do not have on my dell-one of the other art teachers there had an iphone so he took a group picture -then using his phone he changed all the colors and made all of us look very surreal. I have been allowing my students to use their camera phones for their homework assignments and I have been blow away by the quality of pictures that they have taken and altered right on their phones. Then they just email them to me and I grade it from my computer. One girl took such beautiful pictures that I printed them out on quality computer photo paper and she entered them in Jr. Vase. Both images earned her a gold medal. I see apple as leading the way to how to engage children in the classroom. I really wish we had more mac in SBISD. Guess I will go to the store and get an ipad-I really think I deserve and need one especially for visual arts.

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Facebook is a lot of fun if you have time-we have been warned at our school against having any contacts with our students on Facebook. I can honestly see how it would work if all played by the rules, but these are kids that we are working with and they do crazy things without thinking. We have had issues with students creating fake Facebook pages pretending to be a teacher or administrator at our school. When you hide behind another identity, it is easy to say things you would never say outloud if people knew who you were.

I have joined many educational Facebook sites and have really been helped by ideas and lessons that teachers all over the world have created.

I tried the twitter today and I guess I don't get it-I am just now getting the hang of texting and I don't have a smart phone so I honestly don't see myself using this.
I can see how this would help a student who is out from school-they could get the jist of a lesson and keep up-plus they could be part of the lesson by responding.

It is a brave new world and I am trying to keep up!