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Just a couple of other things I'm playing with...

The Interactive Whiteboard Revolution

A Ning social network community focused on sharing ideas and techniques for better IWB use. This community was started as a follow-on to the book of the same name and encourages members to form a active community to share best practice ideas for the effective use of interactive technology.

http://iwbrevolution.ning.com

Adobe Connect

As an Adobe Education Leader, I have access to an Adobe Connect conference room. This is a useful space for live collaboration. It provides text chat, video and audio communication, screensharing, a shared presentation space, shared whiteboard, polling, breakout rooms, etc, plus it can be recorded and played back later. It's a really useful collaboration tool.

http://pacific.adobe.acrobat.com/betchaboy

ThinkUp

ThinkUp provides a useful way to analyse the data flowing through my personal Twitter stream. For a full run down on what it's about I'd suggest you take a read of this post, or just have a poke around... If you take Twitter seriously it's a very interesting and useful tool. Let me know if you'd like to be able to make an account on my ThinkUp server.

http://www.chrisbetcher.com/thinkup

Moodle 2.0

We run Moodle at school and I look after a lot of the stuff that happen on it. However, it's also good to have my own Moodle server to just play on, try new modules, develop course ideas and so on. I have a Moodle 2.0 server running on this site and I just use it to play with. A place to learn and not mess up the real one at work! I might even develop some useful courseware on it eventually!

http://www.chrisbetcher.com/moodle

About the background image on this site

The background image on the this site is a photograph called Grass in A Minor taken by Andrew Kneebone (aka Drew__), posted to Flickr and kindly published under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike licence. Thanks for sharing Drew... the world is a better place because of it.

You can see the original photo, along with Andrew's other photographs, at http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewkneebone/3544313849/in/photostream/

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M. Janet Robles
March 25th, 2010 - 13:48

Chris: I am working on a flipchart for my Spanish class (elementary school), the theme is food and I have created six boxes, for each of the food groups. I also have clipart of different types of food. The idea is to use the food group boxes as containers to classify the food clipart. My problem is that Activstudio 3 is not letting me select more than one object (food clipart) to be contained inside the food group box. I did a websearch and stumbled upon Challenge #5 (http://whiteboardchallenge.wikispaces.com/Challenge+5) where you do exactly what I am trying to do!!! (Multiple objects in a container). How do you do it??? Can it be done in Activstudio 3??? Gracias in advance for your help.

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Hajime Yanase
July 4th, 2010 - 16:14

Konnichiwa, Chris.

I’m sorry that I couldn’t return your e-mail you sent me about a years ago. I have been looking for your address, and I found your e-mail a years ago now. The following is me e-mail I sent several days ago.

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Hello, my real friend. How are you? I hope all of you dwell in happiness. You are my anchorage.
As for me, my English is not progressing. Because I’ve never use English for several years. I hope I could return the old time and spent exciting time with you.
I remember See-you-see-me, many interesting video letters, presents… They are my best memories.

BTW, my 10 years old and 13years old sons want to make homepages. They want to paticipate with ThinkQuest.
13 years old boy Sho want to make a homepage of “How to study”. He think that there are many kinds of styles. He want to research into the best way of study.
10 years old boy Yu want to make a homepage of “fossil” or “dinosaur”.

I hope this mail will arrive your computer. It is too long time to contact with you by the same e-mail address.
If you know someone who will be able to make homepage with them, please e-mail to me.

Hajime

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Andrew Kneebone
November 29th, 2011 - 21:02

Hey Chris

Thanks for using my Grass in A Minor image and for passing on the credit I like the site and the Screencasts, please keep it up.

The photo was taken in my back yard in Mitcham, Melbourne on Sunday with coffee in hand and having gone through the photos on the camera from a shoot the night before I liked the way the grass looked with the sun rising and well one lean over and a couple of shots later it was there..

Feel free to use other images from the flickr site:)

Cheers!

Drew

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