Tech Academy 2009

An example of mashup

TurningPoint PRS — clickers

Here’s the link to Turning Technologies, the company that makes Stockton’s PRS system. Go here to download software for Windows and Mac, and you can develop quizzes at home.

Clickers in the Classroom

White paper that may be of benefit to people wanting research/evidence to support the use of clickers.

http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/resources/PublicationsArchives/StudiesWhitepapers/ClassroomResponse_Nov07.pdf

More Twitter

Introduction to Twitter and Microblogging

Howard Rheingold’s twitter and comm217 Bookmarks

how to assign a macro to an option button in excel

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/141689

  Thanks,Bob

Hiding Excel Rows when Columns are Null or Zero

Add the following macros and set the range as needed. 

Sub HideZeroRows()
Dim r As Range, cell As Range
Set r = Range(”C7:C8̸
For Each cell In r
If cell = 0 And cell.Offset(0, 1) = 0 And _
   cell.Offset(0, 2) = 0 Then
    cell.EntireRow.Hidden = True
Else
    cell.EntireRow.Hidden = False
End If
Next
End Sub

Sub UnHiderows()
Rows.Hidden = False
End Sub

Taken From
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Excel-1059/2009/5/Hiding-Rows-Zero-Values-1.htm

How do I create a Quicktime reference movie

 you do not have Quicktime Pro, you can modify the code below as needed. Save it into a text file with a .mov extension and link to it from your website.

<?xml version=”1.0″?>
<?quicktime type=”application/x-quicktime-media-link”?>
<embed
autoplay=”true”
moviename=”My Sample File”
src=”rtsp://qtss.streamguys.com/sample_100kbit.mov”
/>

Word cloud for #techacad

Below is a Wordle cloud for the Tech Academy.

It’s made from the complete rss feed of the #techacad tag on Twitter (as of 10 pm June 23 09) dumped into Wordle, a site that generates word clouds. The clouds give prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. I always enjoy the results (click on the thumbnail for a larger image).

Pics from the 1st & 2nd days

Here’s a small video I made using keynote.

 1st & 2nd Day: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
 1st & 2nd Day with Narration: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I have a larger version with sound, but haven’t been able to upload it yet.

WidgetBox

Widgetbox.com, a site for making rss widgets and other widgets.