Posts Tagged as ‘edupunk’

October 21, 2009

Vorbeo: Easy Web Polls

Vorbeo makes polls for blogs, moodle, and websites with terrific live preview function.

October 6, 2009

Making Friends at the Airport

Guarantee yourself a place to charge your batteries at any airport with this simple device.

August 18, 2009

Crowdsourcing Meta-Resources

Can lists of audio resources for ESL be crowdsourced and mashed up? I’m ready to find out.

June 3, 2009

Interface with the Future

Interactive Whiteboards have me thinking about the interfaces we use to connect to our computers. There are lots of new ways on the horizon, many of which will please kinesthetic learners.

May 13, 2009

Random Choices from my Interactive Whiteboard

I used an editable, flash-based slot machine on an interactive whiteboard to choose students for roleplay activities.

March 31, 2009

Spring Inspiration

A couple of videos (embedded) to inspire course planning for Spring Quarter. How does new technology change how learning occurs?

March 26, 2009

Top 5 Subscriptions for Edupunks

The top 5 magazines I recommend for other edupunks. Why post this list? Because I spent the last two days pulling the engine out of my ‘55 Packard. I’m learning by doing, which is what I ask my students to do.

March 5, 2009

Edupunks alive and well

Give me my Macbook and I can teach English to anyone, anywhere and anytime. I’m an edupunk.

January 29, 2009

Zoom It with Sys Internals

ZoomIt gives you the ability to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around, and write on the screen. Could be useful with Wii-based interactive whiteboards.

December 10, 2008

Old-School Edupunk

Ok, this is just a personal project I’ve been working on, but I thought I’d post pictures because it’s been kind of fun to tackle.
I’ve hacked together an old Nintendo NES controller, a card reader, and a USB hub. The components I chose fit surprisingly well inside the controller down to the location of [...]