http://www.hopkinsschools.org/servicesdepartments/technology-media/strategic-planning

A recent discussion on the Apple listserv was around Tech Plans. I’ve posted a link to the plan for Hopkins Public Schools.

Not so much.

Yes, I could upload them easily to Google Video.  However, the quality is, in a word, AWFUL.  Even uploading a higher resolution video didn’t help.  All four of my different compression export attempts came up with the same result… YUCK.  A training video where you can’t make out the icons that are being clicked doesn’t do much good.  I tried an export at the Google-recommended settings with the same exact result.

So, to YouTube I go, where the quality is much better but security is now an issue.

Do you use Google Video?  How has it worked for you?  Do you upload your own videos, and if so, and the quality is good, how did you do your export?

And can someone tell me why the quality on YouTube is so much better, when Google OWNS it?!

The link below may not work so here is the site:  http://www.watchknow.org/
SMART Boards and WatchKnow Video Library
Posted: 30 Mar 2011 01:34 PM PDT
In all my workshops, I find that I never miss an opportunity to recommend the WatchKnow website for finding educational videos for the classroom. This is also a great place to locate videos that you may want to download and incorporate into a Notebook lesson file.

This site is maintained by the users and organized in a way that can really help teachers find relevant videos for the classroom. I also like the rating system that is used to help teachers make a educated decision on what videos to review.

You’ll want to start searching through the site right away once you see it so please go there right now and take a look. When you’re done, make sure you look at all the things you can do with WatchKnow by watching their introductory video.

Here is the video if you want more information now:

If you can’t view the video here, you may have YouTube blocked. Click Here to go directly to the YouTube video.

Please don’t forget to share this incredible resource with the teachers at your school.

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The setting is under Advanced Tools, second from the bottom:

When I tried to send email from a domain outside of those allowed, I got this:

Now that Google Apps also has “Organizations,” you can set up different groups of students who are restricted if you wish, or if you combine your faculty and students, you can put each in an organization and restrict only the students.

I would say that this means that you could combine your faculty and students on the same domain, but more than email service must be considered here.  As we’re using Google Docs more often to share information among the faculty, it’s very easy to set a file to be visible and searchable by your domain (Visibility Options > Domain).  I’d caution anyone considering to combine students and faculty just to consider this, and know that if they are combined, faculty and students will need to be alerted to that when they are trained on sharing settings.

Is anyone already using this email delivery restriction setting?  Advice?  Feedback?

Right now I have students work their way through all lessons and activities.  Wondering what others are doing.

Check it out today!!

Participants need to have both a Wikispaces and a Voicethread account.

Registration is open only through March 11 (sorry for the late notice!).

Story-writing takes place from March 21st through April 22nd.