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Arturo Guajardo
Austin ISD Instructional Technology Facilitator
office: 512.414.6555 fax: 512.414.6567
arturo.guajardo@austinisd.org

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I’m a loser

Growing up all I ever wanted was to to play the drums to songs by bands like Rush, AC/DC and Ozzy. This guy makes it look so easy:

Interesting look at media use by teens from the perspective of a 15 year old. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jul/13/teenage-media-habits-morgan-stanley

Nice graphic showing brain.

Screen Capture Tools

The ability to capturing screen shots is one of the most useful tools for educators looking to publish. Take a look at these 40 free screen capture tools and techniques.

 

Posterous Rocks

Amazed at all the ways to use posterous.com: personal bloging, password-protected group bloging, audio podcasting, photo publishing and much more.

Here are links to the Web 2.0 tools that I shared at NECC. Video of the presentation can be found here.

Browser

Firefox
The dictionary add on for Firefox browser:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/add2ie.htm

Blog Tools

Blogger.com (blogspot)
Edublogs.org
WordPress.com
ePals.com

ESL examples:
http://dvmunca.blogspot.com/
http://esl5.edublogs.org/

Wikis

Pbworks.com (Formerly Pbwiki)
Wikispaces.com
Wetpaint.com

Social Networks

Ning.com
Twitter.com

ePals (Collaboration Center is not yet available)

Web Media Tools

Gcast (used w/Audacity)Slideshare.com
VoiceThread.com

Skype.com
SchoolTube.com
Ustream.tv
PicNik.com

FotoFlexer.com
Flickr.com
MakeBeliefsComix.com
ToonDoo

Others to try

Kerpoof.com
Glogster.com/edu
Voki.com
Vocaroo.com

YackPack.com

Literature Resources

StoryNory.com
Lit2Go
LibriVox.org
Gutenberg.org

ASCD 2009 Presentation

My ASCD 2009 presentation is available for download here. Thanks to Josie Hughes for co-presenting. And thanks to all who showed up this late in the day, your persistence is appreciated.

Theses videos remind me of what can happen when kids get involved in creative communities (musical, artistic or even high-tech).

The first is the 60 minutes story on Gustavo Dudamel, the new conductor of the L.A. Philharmonic and a product of El Sistema, “the system” to save poor Venezuelan kids by teaching them to play musical instruments and to be part of an orchestra.

The second is this year’s TED Prize winner, Jose Antonio Abreu, the founder of El Sistema.

Here is the PowerPoint from my NABE presentation. I will post the link list ASAP.

NABE Presentation

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