Webquest: invasive species in Oregon

I did a webquest … my first one. Let me know what you think. I went ahead and made it before reading the rubric. Yup, I’m one of those guys who shoves aside the instructions before tinkering with a gadget. I targeted it to high schoolers but I think it could be done by middle schoolers.

Very short introduction to copyright law

Here’s my part of our EDU533W group presentation on copyright issues as they relate to teachers. My part started out as history and background. Then I realized only nerds would care about the history part. The slidecast below is a very short summary of current copyright law in the US. For the nerds out there, you can download a short PDF with more details here.

Science fair project: analysis of running pace as a function of distance

I finished my multimedia science fair project for EDU533W this afternoon. Yeah, it looks long at 103 slides. But it’s mostly overlays timed to give small chunks of information at a time. The topic isn’t what I originally planned on doing. I was hoping to do some bird surveys but it was cold and rainy when I had time to get out in the field and I wimped out. Five years ago I would have been all over it. Besides, November isn’t the best time of the year to go birding unless you’re really into ducks and geese.

The Quicktime version has a soundtrack and clocks in at 6′03″, but you can’t control the speed of the transitions. The SlideShare version, which is below, doesn’t have a soundtrack, but you can advance the slides at your own pace. Take your pick.