Another person I was looking forward to hearing is Hall Davidson, the Director of Discovery Educator Network (DEN). Following are my "Blogging live" notes from his presentation:
The gist of the presentation is about html code and how easy it is to copy and paste code into applications to tailor these applications to suit your needs. It's sort of an HTML for Dummies (don't mean that in a bad way) -- in other words, all you have to know is how to find the codes and then you can paste it anywhere. Hall had a funny image of his face floating on Google Earth. Basically, you just need to be able to find the image source code to do this, just insert the code in the placemarker description box. You can also do this with videos and webcam sites.
Google Earth: you can make your face float on Google Earth by copying & pasting the code right on. Hal is having technical problems.
If you didn't know about this, check out blackle.com it's google in black.
Hall says, "Copy and paste gives the kids the illusion of control.. Code can make things work better for schools."
Hall spent a lot of time talking about pasting code into ipods for students. Great idea, if your school has ipods!
Here's a good tip: Email geec@google.com to get a free google earth pro license for educators. Pro lets you make a movie.
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