TeacherTube: "Teach the World"- a great resource

TeacherTube is the educator's version of YouTube. According to information provided on the TeacherTube website, "Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill."

TeacherTube


Many school districts block the use of YouTube. I hope this won't be the case with TeacherTube. It looks like a great resource.

-Lynn

First attempt at a touch-screen "Poetry Picture Share" application

This was my first attempt at a "poetry picture share" application. It was designed for use on a multi-touch table and can be accessed remotely so people in different places can move things around on the screen.   The video shows how the application works on a NextWindow Human Touch interactive large-screen display.

Version 2 will be posted soon. I am planning on adapting this application for use with students with special needs, such as those who have autism or other communication disorders.

Google Earth with photo overlays on a touch screen 2

Here is another demo videoclip of a globe created in GoogleEarth using photo-overlays, with links to video clips uploaded to YouTube and embedded in individual posts on a blog. The above photo and the video clip show the application on a NextWindow Human Touch large-screen display.

This application would be great on a touch-table or touch-table set up on a drafting board. Although it was designed for a travel-planning application, it would work well in educational settings in subjects such as geography.

NextWindow Human Touch Interactive display using photo overlays on Google Earth

This application was part of a travel-planning prototype developed for a course in Human-Computer Interaction.   The application was demonstrated on a NextWindow Human Touch large screen display.

Would it work on the iPhone?

Link to Mechelle De Craene's Blog

Mechelle De Craen is a special education teacher who integrates technology into her work with students. Some EduSpaces e-Learning 2.0 Blog. She is a member of the following on-line communities: #
Community memberships

* MirandaNet
* Blogs, wikis, and social software for teaching and learning.
* Pedagogical impact
* Digital Storytelling
* eportfolios
* nanoHUB for Kids
* K-12 Education
* Multimedia Development

Embedded Touch-Screen Computer Games for Primates at the Zoo!

Interactive computer games still very common in our public schools, the day-time habitat for most young human primates. Non-human primates at several zoos now have access to "ubiquitous" touch-screen computer games, embedded within their habitats, as part of a research program spearheaded by Atlanta's Center for Behavioral Neuroscience.

The games were developed with assistance from IBM volunteers to help assess reasoning, learning, and memory. For related information and links, see the TechPsych blog entry.



I would love to use (and develop) interactive multimedia computer games, delivered on touch-screens, to help me with my assessment duties as a school psychologist!

If you or someone you know is doing research on this subject in the schools or with school-aged populations, please let me know.

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