Wanna expand your music library?  Relive the past?  Wanna look musically cool to your own kids and your students?

 

If so, forgive this only slightly relevant post. 

In searching for even more music apps for my beloved iPhone, I discovered Mac World's list of top iPhone Apps for music. 

This led me to discover Concert Vault (the iPhone app) which is connected Wolfgang's Vault websi...Read More

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(This post actually has resources.  Scroll down to skip my little love story.)

I've never been a real gadget girl.  Perhaps I'd never met the right ones before. But this was the year I fell in love.  Twice.  First it was my Kindle. 

Late last month I bought my husband an iPhone for his birthday.  Could anyone blame me for getting in on the plan?




Anyway, even though our relationship is still quite new, I am in love.  Until it rings, I often forget it is a phone.  I want to name it.  (Suggestions are welcome.)

My daughter, who understands my need for green accessories, bought me a new case for the holidays.  (The above pic represented the one drawb...Read More

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Hello Readers,
I was going to write the typical resolution blog post (I suppose they are a new genre), but I decided it would be more fun to explore each others' wishes and plans for the coming year. 


What's on your mind?  Please share on this VoiceThread!

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I wanted to share our new, just completed, Hamlet project. 

The seniors have been blogging in small groups as the characters in the play.  We've done this successfully for a couple of years now. 
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There's just a little time left to discover and vote for your favorite blogs and blog posts and wikis and social networks.  Visit the 2008 Edublogs Awards site to explore. 

And consider attending the gala awards ceremony which will be held (for us in the US) tomorrow. For those on the east coast, the event is at 6:00 PM.



Participate in Second Life.

For those joining us at the awards ceremony on the Islands of jokaydia we will be meeting at the ...Read More

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In so many ways, YouTube is the world's video portal. It is also, perhaps, the fastest growing website.

Sure, lots of it is seedy and inappropriate.  But so much of its content is legitimately important for education, for media and information fluency.  For example, I blogged recently about the learning potential of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, an international collaboration. YouTube's YouChoose became one of the richest presidential campaign resources. Our President-elect now chooses to upload his transition team messages to our nation on this portal. 

The fact is, YouTube is blocked in many of our schools. ...Read More

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There's a new kid on the web answer block.  And this one looks a little different.



Launched in Beta on December 15th by CEO Jason Calacanis, Mahalo Answers is a knowledge exchange service that operates with the backbone of a social network, a network of answerers motivated both by good will and by the potential to earn points/dollars for providing quality answers.

Mahalo users post questions for answering by other users. Question posters are encouraged to offer tips for the best responses to their...Read More

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I am passing news of this event along on behalf of Lisa Perez, chair of ISTE's SIG_MS and AASL's 2.0 Taskforce.

Talk with David Warlick from the convenience of your own home!   Attend the December AASL – ISTE SIGMS learning community meeting on Tues, Dec 16 at 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT in Second Life.  David will facilitate a discussion about “Cultivating a Personal Learning Network”. 

To attend:  Log into Second Life about fifteen minutes early.  Teleport to ISTE Island #3 or IM Elaine Tulip for a TP.  This is a voice/chat hybrid event, so plan to use a headset to hear David speak.  Edit your preferences to enable voice.  [Directions will be provided at the event.]

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Share this opportunity with your music departments and your student musicians!

The YouTube Symphony Orchestra opened for auditions on December 1st.  This is the first-ever such international, collaborative project.

The rules:

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The wonderful Wes Fryer, (educator,father, blogger, conference buddy) wondered in his Learning at the Speed of Creativity blog why the growing number of book-related videos and digital stories (home-grown and otherwise) are not being collected in some central, platform-independent web space.

It forced me to wonder too. Though I've played with the idea in blog posts, on our TeacherLibrarianNing, and in BookLeads, we really have no focused space to collect our videos, and VoiceTh...Read More

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While I love so many of the feeds in my RSS aggregator, I always look forward to my weekly LII updates. They are fertilizer for my pathfinders.