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This is Hendron’s Digest: on educational technology.

Archive for February, 2008

Using Found Multimedia

Friday, February 15th, 2008

This is a presentation/workshop I am giving at the Maggie Walker Governor’s School in Richmond, VA.


Using Found Multimedia for Instruction from John Hendron on Vimeo.

New Copyright Awareness Site

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Today, Microsoft released a new website focused on copyright awareness for teens. It’s an effort to help curb music/video piracy. I have not yet evaluated it, but it might be worth looking at.

Dr. Tim Tyson

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

I missed Dr. Tyson’s closing keynote presentation at NECC 2007 (I had to fly home!). You can watch it via Apple.

Since this talk, Dr. Tim has retired and now acts as a consultant. I thought it was interesting to go back to his old school’s new website and see how many teachers were still blogging. It was a positive number, for sure.

Facebook Worries

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

A New York Times article on getting away from Facebook: a difficult proposition.

(via Sean Campbell)

Chatter Software

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

New from Shinywhitebox software (makers of the excellent iShowU screencasting software) comes Chatter, an iChat-helper application that does live screen demonstrations.

I am going to check this one out! My experience thus far with doing Leopard-based iChat screenscasts (better stated, Keynote sharing, etc.) have been medium-to-disappointing (too crunchy looking). The newer feature of ARD screen controlling, however, has been great.