Haugen’s Tech Tips Blog

I think I mentioned VoiceThread before - the marvelous web site that lets you present a slide show and record comments, captions & doodles. The other innovation of VoiceThread is you can invite others to comment as well, creating a visually guided dialog about… well, anything.

One of my favorites:

See also Kenya Escape, the incredibly powerful story of one family’s experience in Kenya, during the election upsets of December 2007.

Here is a sample podcast for a workshop I’m running. Just showing how to upload and share.

Codfish Ball

I’ve finally done it!  I’m launching my new web site at kirstenhaugen.org. It’s definitely a work in progress, but I’ll be adding to it, and porting my various other resources over, learning as I go.  Please take a look and let me know what you think.  The About page has an email form for submitting feedback.
Thanks!

Biology of Plants provides students with a clear, accurate introduction to plants as living things, plant growth, plant parts, making food, pollination, seed dispersal and adaptations.

Flocabulary “…uses the educational power of hip-hop music to foster literacy and promote academic success in the classroom and beyond.” In other words, get your kids to study by delivering content to a hip hop beat. You can listen to tracks online or purchase books and CD’s.