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This is a site I've had for a while, and haven't really done anything with it.  I basically have it as I don't want another puppy miller to have it.  

It's at http://www.kweaver.us and I'm using it to store some @Camtasia videos I've made.

I've decided when I have professionally done photos, the best way is to display them in a Camtasia movie (that way people can't easily grab and steal them), and I can add some narration, so the photos are more meaningful.

I've also used Expression Web to create the webpages, etc.

Playing around with making websites with Camtasia and Expression Web 3 — http://www.kweaver.us

I’ve got the new kweaver.net site. Created it with Microsoft Expression Web 3 which is NICE! Anything that can help create a site that easily is #1 in my book!

http://www.kweaver.org

This paper argues the importance of a further shift to "Meddler-in-the-middle". "Meddler-in-the middle" positions the teacher and student as mutually involved in assembling and dis-assembling cultural products.

via www.eric.ed.gov

One of the people I follow mentioned this, and it's very much like I teach.  I demo what I want from them, then cut them  loose and while they are working, I'll "unstick" people, grade, or work on my own projects, from campus tech stuff, to personal projects. 

See http://org.hillcresthsdallas.org/InstructTech/

I’ve create a series of short movies describing my courses. I used Camtasia to make each movie, used Camtasia theater to organize them and put them together. I think I need to do that with my school movies and start using the school website for them.

@Pearson Chancery Sucks

Seriously.

My password expired today. There was no message indicating that my password expired, I just couldn’t log in.

This is not good.

Especially when I’m teaching a tough class with pullouts, who can’t leave until I take attendance.

Also, everyone in my building’s head is going to explode as much as mine did, and guess who the campus tech is?

Thank you for the next stress filled days.

See http://www.kweaver.net/Test/ – a very rough draft.

Yes, the same program I use to make movies for my students.   I'm trying to front load the important information.  Each course description will start with the audience, major portions of the course, and some sample work product.

I'm using Camtasia Theater to create the main page — and making each of the subjects a seperate "movie".

I'm doing this in small pieces and may be finished by January, just in time <smile> but I think it will help our counselors, and better yet, help me find the best students for my classes.  I should probably include the Tech support class. 

I just downloaded the Microsoft Office 2010 Beta – got it from MSDN. Seems to work well , setting up my exchange account was easy.

I had been running the Technical Review, and was pleased with it, and ran into no problems at all, but haven’t done any “production work with it”. Giving everything a shot now, including uploading this blog entry.

I did have a bit of problems, as I did this backwards – started typing and then decided to make it a blog entry. Registering my Typepad blog was a piece of cake (but then that’s why I moved my blog, let someone else do the heavy lifting.

So far, I’ve tried Outlook and now Word. I’ll let everyone know how it goes – though I know I’m already lost without TwInBox.

There has been article in several papers, about how teachers are starting to sell lesson plans over the internet.

Our district policy has been, if you make money while working with the district, you must share the revenue.  I'm not sure how it is worked in other cases, but I am familar with one.

One of our CS teachers came up with the "Texas TAKS Web Tutor".  Basically, it's a series of math problems for students to solve, does some profiling, etc.  He found a web host, set up a company, etc.  Here's how he had to share the revenue — in his case he had to provide it free to the district and otherwise was left alone.

I know that I get paid to write curriculum for the district.  All of that work product is owned by the district and it would certainly be wrong of me to sell that product and I would probably get into deep trouble if I did.  When people have asked me about what I have produced, I refer them to the curriculum department who I worked for.

I'm guessing I would have to come up with a totally different set of lesson plans if I went to work for another district, but they might be nice to me.