0 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...
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0The 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...
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0 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...
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0I love reading student writing on the web!
From teentek.com
Forget about visiting websites! Make them come to you!
For all you people out there who are so busy you don’t even have the time to visit websites, here’s something for you! Netvibes is a website where you can create and personalize your own website. It’s not...
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0Looking 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...
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0They 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....
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0This 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...
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0The 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...
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