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Day: May 20, 2008

Creating Media-Rich Lessons with Google Earth

Posted on May 20, 2008 By Tom 3 Comments on Creating Media-Rich Lessons with Google Earth
EdTech, Geocaching and Maps

Sometimes it just clicks. As many workshops as I have done on Google Earth, I hadn’t really, truly understood its implications for the classroom. In most of my workshops, I had been focusing on the mechanics – basically how to navigate and create interactive placemarks. Now I’m going to emphasize using Google Earth as a … Read More “Creating Media-Rich Lessons with Google Earth” »

21 Accents

Posted on May 20, 2008 By Tom 3 Comments on 21 Accents
Entertainment, Miscellaneous, Weirdness

Via BoingBoing, I found this YouTube clip of actress Amy Walker saying the same sentence in 21 different accents. I listened to it with amazement. In my mind, she nailed every one of them with one notable exception – her Southern accent from Charleston, SC, sounded like the contrived, overdone version that Hollywood tends to … Read More “21 Accents” »

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