Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged teentek
Go outside and make friends
Jun 9th
Last week I sat down with the kids in my elective class who run teentek.com and podcasted a session with them about the class and the Microsoft Surface. At about the 8 minute mark one of the students says something to the affect that:
“Parents don’t get it. They think we need to go outside and ride our bikes to make friends like they did. We make friends by blowing each other up.”
We were talking about MMORPG and how these social-games are different from the everyday flash games that kids play to, in their words, “waste time.” It was an interesting conversation for More >
Student controlled learning
May 16th
The little experiment of mine called teentek.com just produced its first video podcast.
Now some of you might be wondering why this is so amazing to me. I mean we’re 3 1/2 weeks until school’s out and they just now produced their first video podcast?
Because the class sees new students every quarter (8 weeks or 20-40 minute classes if there are no assemblies), it’s hard to get any momentum on projects that take time. I never new 40 minutes was so fast.
This quarter 3 students decided they wanted to produce product reviews for students on the web site. Of course the site More >
Teentek, Twitter, and Teachers
Apr 12th
It’s been too long in between podcasts, but I did have a lot on my mind walking home on Tuesday. I work through some thoughts I had on my students and their teentek.com site, Twitter and what does it mean, and some amazing work from teachers. This Also spilt over into my post today for techlearning.com where I go even deeper into what teentek.com is doing and how it applies to students today. The post for teentek, basically came from my being able to think out loud in this podcast about what’s happening on the site. Hopefully you enjoy both.
[tags]twitter, teentek, teachers[/tags]
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Student 2.0-Creating content for the world
Jan 16th
I love reading student writing on the web!
From teentek.com
Forget about visiting websites! Make them come to you!
How do you embed video on a drupal site?
Dec 8th
Looking for a little help. We’re trying to embed YouTube videos on teentek.com. Anyone know how to do this? Thought is was as easy as copy and pasting the code, but that doesn’t seem to be working. The best part is the students just keep saying:
“It works that way on xanga.com, you just Ctrl C, Ctrl V the code and it works.”
I’ve looked all over the web it looks like it should just work. The administrator downloaded a video module and installed it, but there aren’t any setting that he can find that explains how to use it.
Any help appreciated!
Thanks!
[tags]youtube, teentek[/tags]
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TeenTek now with custom Freeware Games
Nov 18th
They just keep blowing me away. I posted about this last week. About how this Freeware Flash game has taken over the Middle School. I gave my little game playing zombies a deadline. Saying I wanted to see the game on TeenTek by Friday night. Well, at 6:00 last night the game was posted. Here is what they had to say about it.
That’s right, TeenTek.com is bringing you games! Starting from now on we will be hosting game downloads for freeware games and even some of our own! First up:
The N Game!
The N Game is an AWESOME 2D platform flash game More >
TeenTek.com’s Link2Us page
Nov 8th
This page has been a couple months in the making. One of my students is really into digital art. So at the start of teentek she was chosen to come up with a logo for the site. She first sketched a couple designs on a piece of paper. Then the teentek crew voted on the best design. Our ‘designer’ then spent the last month creating these pretty amazing graphics (7th grader). I then sat down with our designer and we discussed size of the logos. We looks at sites and where people place logos and ads on their pages and what More >
Watching the Millennials in action part 2
Nov 8th
The middle schoolers of teentek, and all our middle schoolers for that matter, are HUGE into this flash game.
Monday I couldn’t keep the boys off of it. Every time I turned aroundsomeone had it open and was playing it. So I took a step back into thecorner of the room and just watched (Seriously…I went and stood inthe corner!) I watched as they slowly opened the game back up andstarted playing, I observed them, watching their actions andinteractions with the game:
“You made this level?”“Yep!”“How’d you do that?”“There’s a level builder you can download and create your own levels for the More >
