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!

Sometimes, I want something because it just looks like so much fun… Wacom clearly wants us to think that about their new graphics tablet, so they’ve put fun in the name: the Bamboo Fun, a spiffy little (or medium) USB graphics tablet that has a “pen and paper feel,” a patented “touch ring” (think iPod) for zooming and scrolling, and 4 customizable buttons to free you from your keyboard.
The Bamboo is particularly appealing to me right now, as I’ve been reviewing graphics programs for my student publishing program and a graphics tablet would add some punch to our drawing strategies.
So, if you know my personal elf, and you think I’ve been nice, please let him know that I’ve got a little (Bamboo) Fun on my list…

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