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In this podcast you'll learn about the site, wordle.net, where you can create graphical displays of any text document in the form of a word cloud. The words used most frequently appear larger than the others, proportional to the number of times that they appear in the text. This tool provides many creative ways for students to engage with text and for teachers to develop innovative exercises and lessons for the classroom.

Learn about social bookmarking and the site del.icio.us and have anytime, anywhere access to your "favorites."

In this podcast I talk about how today's students may have excellent technological skills, but lack some critical information literacy skills to help them be successful in this information age.

This podcast explains how the free site zamzar.com can help you convert files without downloading any software. It also lets you save You Tube videos to open in the Windows Media Player or Quick Time Player so that you can use them in school. Listen and find out how.
NOTE: If you want to embed into SMART Board lessons, you need to save as flash video, which is flv file format.

Listen to this podcast and learn about the website, tinyurl (tinyurl.com) where you can instantaneously get a shortened version of any really long url. Great for teachers who find that transcribing url's for students to copy from the board results in wasted time and much frustration.

Here's a podcast based on a professional development class on using video in the classroom. With the addition of Apple computers and camcorders, I am looking forward to helping students and teachers create video to enhance classroom projects.

Podcasting is becoming quite popular in the educational community. What are the educational merits of podcasting? Is it just a fad, or will it stick around? In this podcast, I explore some of the educational applications of podcasting.

This episode introduces you to podcasting and answers the question, "Just what IS podcasting?"

Here's a short podcast that spotlights a valuable online tool, nortellearnit.org. It's a portal that focuses on technology skills training and is chock full of important information. It's great for both students and teachers and will help them develop 21st century skills.