Edina Digital Age Learning

Valley View Middle School French Imersion teacher, Heather Palmer created this award winning video, Nos Chemins vers la paix , for the Tel.A.Vision " Vision For America " Contest. Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com Powered by One True Media , Tel.A.Vision.tv allows students to create videos that share their vision for the future. Heather wanted to use this video to promote the Wiki she and her students created for "6 Billion Paths to Peace." On the wiki, Palmer states: Our project was inspired by the program " Six Billion Paths to Peace ", an initiative of the Shinnyo-en foundation. We like the challenge the program offers us: commit to making a difference in this moment, in this day, in this lifetime! Palmer received her award last week at the National Service Learning Conference, in Nashville, TN. Way to go, Heather! NOTE: A few weeks ago while looking at the copyright free music available on the site, I notice a cover of the "Spinal

8th Grade students at South View Middle school had the chance to discuss Ernest Hemmingway's Old Man and the Sea today, but not in the traditional way. Language Arts teacher, Tess Bademann had the students chat about it using Moodle. After organizing students into groups of 6-8 within Moodle, she had them log in, randomly dispersed throughout the room, and enter the chat room. Students were given 6 question prompts, but were encouraged to only use those as a starting point for discussion. For the next 90 minutes, the students debated and questioned each other regarding whether the character, Santiago, is a tragic hero, the choice of title, the significance of the lions on the beach, whether Santiago was a success or failure, religious symbolism, satisfaction with the ending, and whether they saw a bit of themselves in the story. Aside from the clickity-clack of keyboards, there wasn't a sound! This exercise allowed students who might be less likely to share in a face to face l

Someone I follow on Twitter posted a link to PDFtoWord.com , a service that does to PDF documents what Zamzar does for video. You simply upload your .pdf file to the site, enter your e-mail address, and the file is converted and sent as an e-mail attachment. I tested it out with a document that had a table on it, and the table in word was completely editable. Very Nice! Give it a try and let me know what you think! Convert PDF to Word (DOC) Online — 100% Free! tags : pdf , word , converter , doc Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here.

I used Slide.com to make this mashup of my experience at Educon... While Slide.com is an easy tool to use, each time the project is viewed, the images rotate to diferent positions. Also, when you roll over the image, sometimes all of the text doesn't show, and it you "accidentally" click on an image, it takes you to the slide.com site. I'll keep looking for a better mashup tool!