Listen to William Faulkner

The University of Virginia houses a collection of manuscripts and writings by William Faulkner. The library collection also includes audio recordings of Faulkner's speaking engagements during his time as writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville in the late 1950's. The audio recordings contain 28 hours of speeches, his readings of some of his works and questions posed by students.

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Awesome Highlighter

Awesome Highlighter lets you highlight text on web pages and then gives you a link to the highlighted page.  You can also add notes that the reader can Show/Hide. This allows you to readily direct students to the information on the page that you want them to read. Awesome Highlighter works best in FireFox. You can even click here to install the latest version as a FireFox add-on.

Couple Awesome Highlighter with Jog the Web (see previous post) to set up a web expedition for your students.

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Jog the Web

"JOG THE WEB is a web-based tool that allows anyone to create a synchronous guide to a series of web sites. Its step by step approach of taking viewers through web sites allowing the author to annotate and ask guiding questions for each page is unique".

You can search and link to jogs created by others or make your own. This is a great way to lead students through a series of web pages. You can make notes for students along the way for each site. Give it a try and start creating your own Jogs.

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$35 Tablet??

"The Indian government unveiled a working prototype today of a small tablet computer that it says will initially sell for $35". Read the whole story on ZDNet Education:

India's $35 tablet - vaporware or the real deal?

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Cacoo - Create Diagrams Online

Cacoo is a free site that lets you create, save, and send diagrams online. It is really simple to use and you can even use it collaboratively. Watch the video to get a better idea of just what you can do with Cacoo. How will you use it in your course?

Cacoo - Real-time Collaborative Diagramming & Design from Nulab Inc. on Vimeo.

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InfoWhelm and Information Fluency

This is a pretty interesting video about the sheer volume of information in our world today, how it is growing exponentially and what this means to our students and to us, as educators.
Angela Maiers stated at a recent conference that students no longer need quick answers; they have Google in their pocket! They need to be incredible question askers and translators. “The world’s language is not a five paragraph essay. It comes in the form of images, music, art, and heartfelt emotion.”
We must teach kids how to be worthy of being listened to.

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How to Twitter

We all hear about Twitter almost daily. But What is Twitter? How Does it work? How might I benefit from it? An how can I get started tweeting? View this film to learn answers to all of these questions. Share comments about how you might use Twitter in your classroom.

What is Twitter? - Animated Explanations

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Enter Zeroes in ANGEL Gradebook with 1 Click

You can also view a Jing demonstration of this tutorial.
Add an Agent to Enter Zeroes in the Gradebook With 1 Click

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Critical Past

Critical Past offers more than 57,000 historic videos and 7 million photos for FREE in one of the world's largest collections of royalty-free archival stock footage. Link to the videos and/or photos free of charge.

You can search the site by decade or topic. I searched "Wichita, KS" and found this video about Joyland.

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