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One of the many benefits of being a member of ISTE is to a ‘friend’ on the ISTE ‘Myspace’ blog. They have two busy interns, Ron and Brenda. I have highlightd their blogged oferings before, but I wanted to credit them again and give Yip for ISTE.

I have been muddling around with Moodle for a few months on and off. I want to add a real online component for all my f2f classes. Ron sent a link for a new class offering site (I believe it comes from Edublog brain trust) - www.edu20.org. It has some excellent features: It reminds, in feel, of the way BlackBoard is set up in Vitrtual High School.

For those on our staffs and faculties with morphing roles, can anyone top the shifting of the Library Media Specialist? Brenda has found this excellent online article: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3748779 - “Meet Your New School Library Media Specialist”.

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I had an amazing experience this past weekend - I installed and used a Windows-based product that not only worked better than I could have hoped, but better than I could have dreamed. It’s called Camtasia Studio - http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp .

I am not, not, not shilling for them.

I wanted to create a recording to help the families in our school to become better acquainted with Virtual High school - http://www.govhs.org, in the hopes we could encourage more of our students to avail themselves of this wonderful resource. I recorded all of my moves around the Web site, with an accompanying narration, using an auto pan and zoom - that follows my mouse pointer.

I found this product with a search engine, downloaded it  for 30 day free trial. I prepared a presentation that passed muster with our principal - a 50 minute flash movie in 136 Mb. I can simultaneously (if I wish) render it for Website, CD, blog, and iPod. Camtasia takes care of the royalties. It was absolutely a dream. If you want to see it, it’s online at http://web.mac.com/skipzvt, click ‘VHS Visit’ in the menu, and follow the directions.

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I can’t believe it’s been so long since I posted. School is soooooooooo busy. I have to fall back on our trusty friends at the ISTE Myspace to break this drought:

Here’s a blog on the state of things in public school in North Carolina - Reality Bytes .

 Here is some really great online presentation software - www.zohoshow.com .

For you Librarians/Media Specialist and Generalists and Tech Coordinators setting up literacy curricula, Doug Johnson as Vis Org’ed the standards for ISTE and th the AASL - Standards Comparison by Doug Johnson .