Learning is Change

What I'm Using: Soundtrap (to record audio collaboratively on a Chromebook)

I am always looking for new ways to make podcasts, music, and generally record audio. Because so many of our creation devices are chromebooks nowadays, I believe we need to push what those devices can do. This tool lets you create music and other audio through the web, and it does so in a collaborative manner. I like all of those things. 

Please share anything you create!

Soundtrap – Make music online

Make your music online – quick and easy! With Soundtrap you make music online. You can plug in your own instrument, use the software instruments available in Soundtrap or just record a song directly with your computer microphone. It’s super-easy!

What I'm Learning: RAT (Replace, Amplify, Transform)

I like a good technology framework as much as the next guy, but I would agree that things need to be simpler than TPACK and SAMR for a lot of teachers. I think that this blog post goes a little far in decrying the “Replace” culture that we have in many schools (i.e., where we replace paper with screens without actually changing anything else), but it also does a good job of making the case for why we should push for Transformation. That I can definitely get on board with.

Digital Literacy Dover: The RAT, SAMr, Transformative Technology, & Occam’s Razor

Probably the single greatest challenge in my role is to encourage ICT use that does not make the mistake of just replacing or substituting pixels for pages. There are two frameworks, SAMR and RAT, I prefer RAT, but for some reason SAMR seems to get a lot more attention, which is crazy in my opinion, it’s far too complex to be of any really practical use, and it’s often misinterpreted.

What I'm Using: Tackk (for when you want to create a beautiful webpage, like now!)

I love beautifully designed things. It is one of the reason why I love Canva so much, but there hasn’t been a great webpage builder for a very long time, especially not one that allows for the type of commenting and responses that Tackk allows for. My head is swimming with the possibilities. 

Tackk

Tackk is a simple way to create beautiful pages on the web. It’s your very own page, flyer, blog post, or poster.

What I'm Using: TweetBinder

I haven’t seen a new (and good) analytics tool for Twitter in years, but this one does so many things that I need for capturing and analyzing events and hashtags. Go ahead and put in #EdChat or #BFC530 and see what comes up. It is fascinating. 

TweetBinder – Analytics for Twitter –

Analyze, classify and report your terms or hashtags on Twitter

This session will discuss Project Cam Opener in DPS and the possible inclusion of Camtasia for the 2014-2015 school…

 

This session will discuss Project Cam Opener in DPS and the possible inclusion of Camtasia for the 2014-2015 school year, with an eye for wide scale usage in the 2015-2016 school year.

This discussion will be between Ben Wilkoff (DPS) and representatives from Techsmith.

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