Ed Tech

http://www.mrselak.com/ is up and running!
For now, this site is hosted by blogger. I designed the site in Dreamweaver and pasted the html into the “customize page” section. Now it looks fancy, rather than a bland page.
I also purchased mrselak.com. It is tricky to forward a domain purchase to a blogger host. I finally figured it [...]

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These are links from my conference presentation last week at “Celebrating Technology”. There are three categories of free, useful websites for teachers: Google applications, sharing sites, and meeting people sites. These are some great gems.
Google
Gmail
http://mail.google.com
2.8 GB of free email and storage space.
Gspace
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1593/
Use your Gmail space for file storage.
Google Earth
http://earth.google.com/
Browse the earth through satellite imagery.
Google Docs
http://docs.google.com
Collaborate [...]

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http://billaday.blogspot.com/ is my new photo blog. It is a photo-a-day blog, so you can visit it every day, subscribe, or ignore it.
Here is the background. I use Blogger to host the blog and Flickr to host and publish the pictures and comments. It took some working to get the two web pages to talk [...]

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Below is the video my class made during my final presentation of evolving technologies. Note: the audio was ours, improvised and recorded during my presentation; the video, used for educational purposes, is a small clip from the TV show Lost.

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I successfully shot and photoshopped my first three dimensional picture. Check out the thumbnail; click on it to view the full resolution jpg. Enjoy!

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Flickr is a great picture hosting web site. They are hosting this picture below for me; when you click on a picture to view it full screen, there is a box with text to paste for blogs/web sites. I highly recommend it! http://flickr.com/photos/billselak/

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