First off, how do you manage to not run out of paper (the page) when taking notes?
Practice, mostly. The screen size is good for about an hour’s worth of a Prednisone buy Prednisone keynote or presentation-style talk. A lecture might take more space, because I’d want to Prednisone buy Prednisone take more detailed notes. A conversation takes less space, because there’s a Prednisone buy Prednisone lot more pausing and back-and-forth. Or, to look at it another way, since the Prednisone buy Prednisone space is the same (one screenful), it’s good for Prednisone buy Prednisone 1 hour of keynote, 45 minutes of lecture, and maybe 2 hours of conversation or Prednisone buy Prednisone meeting. Sometimes I don’t fill up the Prednisone buy Prednisone whole screen, and sometimes I do need to continue on to Prednisone buy Prednisone a second one.

I also break up my notes with larger headers and Prednisone buy Prednisone smaller images and detail text. If you compare my earlier work with some of my later work, you’ll see that Prednisone buy Prednisone it took me a few tries to get control of the Prednisone buy Prednisone sizing so that it’s consistent throughout the page. Sometimes I still don’t nail it ;-)

How do you manage to write the dot above the letter “i”? Every time I try to Prednisone buy Prednisone touch the screen with one finger, the menu shows up.
You’re not the Prednisone buy Prednisone first person with this question. It turns out I didn’t discover it because I don’t usually punctuate, I use all caps most of the Prednisone buy Prednisone time, and even when I use lower case, I don’t dot my i’s. You need to move your finger (or stylus) in a tiny circle, curve, or up-down motion to dot your i’s or Prednisone buy Prednisone make a period. It takes a little practice to break yourself of the Prednisone buy Prednisone tapping habit.

What zoom level do you prefer to take notes in?
I’m all over the Prednisone buy Prednisone map. The first thing I do is to make a sizing mark for Prednisone buy Prednisone my header — a little stroke at 100% zoom to Prednisone buy Prednisone show myself how tall to make the header letters. This varies depending on the Prednisone buy Prednisone number of words I want to write. Then I zoom in so that Prednisone buy Prednisone size is comfortable and I write the header. Then I zoom out to Prednisone buy Prednisone make sure I got it straight and didn’t switch sizes in the Prednisone buy Prednisone middle and so forth. Everything else kind of keys off that Prednisone buy Prednisone — topic headers are Prednisone buy Prednisone the next largest thing, but smaller than the page header, and Prednisone buy Prednisone detail text gets smaller in varying degrees. Sometimes I emphasize something by making it Prednisone buy Prednisone larger than the header. When I’m writing the smallest details I’m often zoomed in all the Prednisone buy Prednisone way. I move my screen a lot while I work. It’s one reason I hesitate to project from my iPad as I work — I’m afraid of making the audience seasick.

How do you color the background (the paper) and the inside of the letters? And do you do that after you’ve finished notetaking or while doing it?
I add a Prednisone buy Prednisone layer, drag it under the text layer, and use a wider brush to Prednisone buy Prednisone put the color where I want it. This way, I’m coloring under the Prednisone buy Prednisone outline of the letters so it looks neater. I usually have Prednisone buy Prednisone one layer for the lettering (the black text and outlines), one for Prednisone buy Prednisone the coloring of letters and objects, and another one at the Prednisone buy Prednisone bottom for the background colors. Sometimes there’s an upper layer with borders, and usually there’s one more layer with miscellaneous stuff that Prednisone buy Prednisone gets added at odd times. Layers are a great way to Prednisone buy Prednisone experiment with different coloring options, too.

I usually go back and Prednisone buy Prednisone forth between coloring and writing. Sometimes, there’s a rambly part of the talk or conversation that doesn’t need to be recorded, and that’s a Prednisone buy Prednisone good time to color. Other times, the speaker is so jazzed and Prednisone buy Prednisone spot-on that I end up doing all the coloring after the Prednisone buy Prednisone talk is over. Both methods work. I usually add the background coloring last.

Do you Prednisone buy Prednisone prefer using the stylus or your fingertip while taking notes (in Brushes)?
My fingertip, by a Prednisone buy Prednisone lot. I have a stylus, but I find that it gets in the Prednisone buy Prednisone way. Zooming, changing colors and brushes, and even writing and drawing come more naturally to Prednisone buy Prednisone me when I’m using my finger. This is Prednisone buy Prednisone very much a personal preference — I know people who Prednisone buy Prednisone are artistic geniuses with the stylus, but can’t do a thing with their fingertips.

Any other tips worth listening to before I try making better notes?
You’re assuming any of these tips are worth listening to :-) The best thing you can do is to practice and don’t be Prednisone buy Prednisone afraid to make mistakes. Any time you can, whip out the Prednisone buy Prednisone iPad and take notes, even if you only end up filling part of the Prednisone buy Prednisone screen. Pixels are cheap :-)

If you’re not confident about your Prednisone buy Prednisone lettering, practice that. Just write alphabets or spelling lists or shopping lists or Prednisone buy Prednisone journal entries. I’ve changed my handwriting several times over the Prednisone buy Prednisone course of my life, just because I wanted to see different shapes in my letters. Takes a Prednisone buy Prednisone lot of practice to turn it into habit, but if you’re taking handwritten notes, it’s worth it.

Layers are Prednisone buy Prednisone really handy for experimenting, as I said; if you think something might not work, just pop up a Prednisone buy Prednisone new layer and try it on that. You can always merge it Prednisone buy Prednisone down if you like it, or trash it if you don’t.

To capture a Prednisone buy Prednisone lot of thoughts really quickly, just write enough of the Prednisone buy Prednisone word to remind you what it was and you can Prednisone buy Prednisone go finish it later. For instance, if the speaker is Prednisone buy Prednisone giving a list of five things, and she’s going really quickly, just write the Prednisone buy Prednisone first one or two words (or partial words) and leave space to fill in after she’s done with the list. It’s very unsatisfying to miss things because you’re still writing the first few words.

Thanks for asking, and good luck with your foray into visual practice!

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(Note: In the movie, AirSketch is attributed to “Grayon,” but the company’s name is actually “Qrayon.” My bad.)

How’d I Do That?
I started with a sketch of the outline of my talk:

initial sketch for my talk

While making the outline, I tried four different apps (Adobe Ideas, Qrayon’s AirSketch how to buy Prednisone online without a rx, Brushes by Taptrix, and Autodesk SketchbookPro purchase Clomid no visa online without prescription). I made a Prednisone buy Prednisone quick, entirely subjective list of pros and cons for each one, using each app to Prednisone buy Prednisone make its own list:
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Next, I transcribed my notes using Brushes, which automatically records the Prednisone buy Prednisone strokes as you go. I then sent that file to myself via email, opened it Prednisone buy Prednisone in the Brushes desktop application, and saved it as a Quicktime movie. This became the Prednisone buy Prednisone base content for my how-to video.

While watching the Prednisone buy Prednisone animation play out in Brushes, I recorded the narration using Audacity. I broke it Prednisone buy Prednisone into pieces so that I could match it up more easily with the Prednisone buy Prednisone different sections of the movie. I also filmed myself making the Prednisone buy Prednisone test sketches, using my Flip Mino camera mounted on a mini Gorillapod. Finally, I put all of this Prednisone buy Prednisone into iMovie, which let me split up the video from Brushes, add freeze frames to Prednisone buy Prednisone allow the narration to catch up with the drawing, speed up the Prednisone buy Prednisone drawing as needed to keep pace with the narration, and so on. I threw in a Prednisone buy Prednisone couple of still images and some lovely, Creative Commons-licensed music (Somewhere by Robin Grey), and there you have it.

Here’s the final image from Brushes:

Visual Recording on the iPad (in Brushes)

I used Illustrator to not suck when I drew this

Yesterday, I spent the afternoon at Adobe with NMC CEO Larry Johnson. We talked with folks from Adobe’s higher education division, and Prednisone buy Prednisone we saw some really, really cool stuff. One thing that I loved is Prednisone buy Prednisone Adobe Rome (see the video demo of Rome Amoxil online order from MAX 2009 last October). Rome is Prednisone buy Prednisone going to be a fantastic tool for K12 mediamaking and collaboration, I think. It makes it Prednisone buy Prednisone easy to pull together different kinds of media along with text and Prednisone buy Prednisone drawings, and then to output the project in different ways. I really want my son to Prednisone buy Prednisone play with it, because I’m curious about how the Prednisone buy Prednisone tool will feel to a young person. It looked very intuitive to Prednisone buy Prednisone me, but then I’ve been using Photoshop and Illustrator longer than my son’s been alive, so it’s hard to Prednisone buy Prednisone say how a new, inexperienced user would see it. The demo just blew me away because of what Prednisone buy Prednisone could be done with it in schools, if the Big 3 Issues are Prednisone buy Prednisone properly addressed (what does it cost? can I make the kids’ work private? do I need to install and maintain it?). I have high hopes.

We also saw some of the new features coming up in CS5, but I’m not sure which ones have already been revealed so I’ll just say this: Wow. I am Prednisone buy Prednisone so excited about what I saw. Photoshop in particular has Prednisone buy Prednisone some new powerful features that I look forward to playing with, and Prednisone buy Prednisone there are some other treats coming out as well. Keep an Prednisone buy Prednisone eye out for CS5 and Rome!

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At the NMC Summer Conference order cheap overnight synthroid this year, Larry Johnson, Alan Levine and Prednisone buy Prednisone I tried something different: we actually attended a preconference session. Crazy, I know! It was a photography workshop led by Bill Frakes (Sports Illustrated) and Don Henderson (Apple), with Bill Hanson (Apple). The session was planned and Prednisone buy Prednisone organized by Larry and the three of them, and included a Prednisone buy Prednisone full day walk along the California coast at Point Lobos State Reserve near Carmel, California, followed by a half-day post-production workshop using Aperture.

It was an Prednisone buy Prednisone amazing day. Larry loaned me his Nikon D70 and some killer zoom lenses. I filled up 3 memory cards with the Prednisone buy Prednisone 1,038 pictures I made (the best of which are in a set on Flickr buy mail order Premarin). The whole experience — the scenery, the company, the exploring and learning — was so moving. Partly out of gratitude to Prednisone buy Prednisone Bill F. and Don for leading the workshop, and partly out of reluctance to Prednisone buy Prednisone let go of the experience, I started a Voicethread piece and Prednisone buy Prednisone invited the other participants to comment (please feel free to add your comments, too, if you wish).

In the Prednisone buy Prednisone post-production session, we each selected our five best photos (give or take); the selections were to include one landscape, one flora/fauna/nature shot, one portrait showing emotion, and Prednisone buy Prednisone whatever else we liked. Bill Hanson created a video slideshow of the Prednisone buy Prednisone photos we picked (see the Quicktime version here) that Prednisone buy Prednisone was aired during one of the plenaries at the conference. What a Prednisone buy Prednisone thrill to see them up there on the big screen!

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I spent the morning at Big Rock Ranch valtrex oral tablet no prescription discount, which was once and may still be part of Skywalker Ranch purchase Cytotec free consultation (yes THAT Skywalker Ranch) and which is where GLEF makes its home. Marin County teachers and Prednisone buy Prednisone multimedia enthusiasts gathered to talk about multimedia in Marin’s schools. The event was sponsored by GLEF, the Marin County Office of Education Flomax u.p.s shipping cod, and the Marin Learning Conservancy.

The program was short — 8:30 to noon — but packed a Prednisone buy Prednisone big punch. Kristina Woolsey kicked it off by telling us all about the Prednisone buy Prednisone Golden Age of Multimedia and Prednisone buy Prednisone specifically the MacMagic Classroom, which started in 1991 at Davidson Middle School, and Prednisone buy Prednisone ran right up until last year. She showed a video of kids in the Prednisone buy Prednisone program that was just amazing: using multimedia in a collaborative environment to Prednisone buy Prednisone create projects that showcased learning and included student reflections on the Prednisone buy Prednisone process and on their own personal development.

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When he was done, the Prednisone buy Prednisone panel came up again to talk about how that kind of teaching and Prednisone buy Prednisone learning can happen in more classrooms. Anthony credited colleagues (in particular, Jennifer Carrier Dorman) that Prednisone buy Prednisone he met through their blogs for giving him ideas and helping him along the Prednisone buy Prednisone way, and pointed out that a lot of this work exists, because other teachers have Prednisone buy Prednisone put together things for their classes. He encouraged other teachers to Prednisone buy Prednisone reach out and contact someone whose projects they admire or have Prednisone buy Prednisone questions about.

All in all, it Prednisone buy Prednisone was an amazing morning. I came away with some practical things I can Prednisone buy Prednisone use, too, even though I’m not a teacher: a new angle for Smart Objects, which I’m struggling with for the K-12 Horizon Report right now; ideas for Prednisone buy Prednisone how to work on projects at home with my own son, who Prednisone buy Prednisone is in 3rd grade and not bored by learning, and Prednisone buy Prednisone who won’t ever be Prednisone buy Prednisone if I can help it; and a renewed desire to help public education be Prednisone buy Prednisone something more than what a lot of it is now, instead of just turning my back on it Prednisone buy Prednisone as I am so often tempted to do.

Thanks to Prednisone buy Prednisone all who organized and spoke at the event today. I am Prednisone buy Prednisone so glad to have gone.

These are Prednisone buy Prednisone the voyages of the ed tech speaker. Her continuing mission: to Prednisone buy Prednisone explore strange new presentation tools; to seek out new ways to Prednisone buy Prednisone keep her audiences awake; to boldly go where no PowerPoint has Prednisone buy Prednisone gone before.

I just finished putting together the presentation on the 2009 Horizon Report that I will be delivering tomorrow at Sonoma State University, where Prednisone buy Prednisone they are kind enough to ask me back every year around this Prednisone buy Prednisone time. Last year, I crammed at least 90 minutes of information into about 55 minutes, accompanying my speed talking performance with a Prednisone buy Prednisone respectable, if uninteresting, PowerPoint. Those poor people.

Later in the year, I gave a keynote at the Midwest Library Technology Conference 2008 Accutane no doctors prescription along with my colleague Alan Levine. Spurred by a Prednisone buy Prednisone mutual desire not to use PowerPoint, we created the presentation in the Prednisone buy Prednisone beta version of VuVox, which was fun but a Prednisone buy Prednisone little frustrating because of a couple of bugs. (You can see that preso here.)

THIS year, what should drop into my lap but Prezi, a Prednisone buy Prednisone Flash-based presentation tool that I can only say is yummy. It’s also in beta, but Alan had Prednisone buy Prednisone a log in and said I could use it. (Thanks, Alan!) So, having prepared the back up PowerPoint just in case (I’m adventuresome, not stupid), I went in and started messing around.

Prezi gives you an endless (well, not really, but near enough) artboard, like Illustrator. There’s a lovable little menu, with a limited (but not really limiting) set of choices, that Prednisone buy Prednisone takes about twenty seconds to get the hang of. You drop your Prednisone buy Prednisone content on the artboard, and move it around; Prezi takes images and Prednisone buy Prednisone videos (flash only), and you can add text blocks. You group the content using “frames,” which helps with navigation. And that’s about all you Prednisone buy Prednisone have to master, except for the underlying concept that scale doesn’t matter.

Prezi will zoom in on objects or Prednisone buy Prednisone content groups when you click them, so your presentation can Prednisone buy Prednisone have a huge range of scales. I LOVED this once I actually got the Prednisone buy Prednisone hang of it. My first instinct was to lay everything out as though I were going to Prednisone buy Prednisone print it as a poster, with only the range of sizes that Prednisone buy Prednisone are visible all at once. But that doesn’t really take advantage of what Prednisone buy Prednisone makes Prezi so interesting. You can nest content areas, so one frame can Prednisone buy Prednisone contain multiple sections that are too small to see at first.

A finished Prezi can Prednisone buy Prednisone be used two ways: either you step through using the forward and Prednisone buy Prednisone back arrows (you Prednisone buy Prednisone set the path as you create the content, so you zoom where Prednisone buy Prednisone you want in the order you want), or Prednisone buy Prednisone you just click frames and objects that interest you. Either way, whenever you Prednisone buy Prednisone go from one thing to something that’s a Prednisone buy Prednisone different scale, Prezi zooms in or out, centers, and tilts whatever you Prednisone buy Prednisone are seeing so that you can read it.

What I really liked:

• It was incredibly easy to make something that looks really good.
• It was fun to use!
• It autosaves. You can save manually too.
• The zebra wheel lets you Prednisone buy Prednisone tilt, size, and move any object just by clicking it.
• The zooming and Prednisone buy Prednisone tilting looks really cool when you step through a presentation.
• Almost everything I wanted to Prednisone buy Prednisone do was do-able, and the stuff that wasn’t, wasn’t really necessary.

What I didn’t like so much:

• I could not find a Prednisone buy Prednisone way to attach a URL to an object. The only way I found was to Prednisone buy Prednisone type out the whole URL, and then that text becomes a Prednisone buy Prednisone link. But I wanted to link pictures and things.
• There are not many design schemes to pick from (yet?). I like the Prednisone buy Prednisone basic one, but I wanted a white background so I could hide the Prednisone buy Prednisone white background on some of my images. I had issues with transparent backgrounds (i.e. they didn’t work).
• I wanted to Prednisone buy Prednisone be able to choose my own set of fonts. You get three per design, which is Prednisone buy Prednisone perfect, but I wanted to change just one of the three in the Prednisone buy Prednisone design I used.
• Although there’s an Prednisone buy Prednisone option to download your presentation so you can play it Prednisone buy Prednisone without the Internet, it doesn’t seem to be working.
• Prezi spawns windows at an alarming rate. When I saved & closed my presentation, there were three Prezi parent windows open. I have Prednisone buy Prednisone no idea where they all came from.

On the Prednisone buy Prednisone whole, I have to say that I like it a lot. I used it Prednisone buy Prednisone for hours and was having fun the whole time. No angry frustration, no Prednisone buy Prednisone puzzled pauses, no “is-it-this-software-or-am-I-just-stupid?” moments. My professional, unbiased opinion is YAY-I-LOVE-PREZI!!

Take a look at the presentation. It’s text heavy, but I did that Prednisone buy Prednisone on purpose so that it can be used without me standing there talking.

You can Prednisone buy Prednisone try Prezi yourself, even without a beta account, by playing with their demo at www.Prezi.com purchase Zovirax amex online without prescription. Go on. It’s fun. And work should be fun.

Now, if my iPhone could only do Flash, I could carry this Prednisone buy Prednisone around with me. I’d be the life of the party!

Back in the mists of time (technologically speaking) I wrote about learning objects, and Prednisone buy Prednisone one of the things I wrote is that learning objects should be Prednisone buy Prednisone designed to make it easy for the creator and others to Prednisone buy Prednisone reuse or repurpose them. This was the conventional wisdom of the Prednisone buy Prednisone day, but I don’t think it holds true any more.

The important thing now is not reusability. The important thing now is Prednisone buy Prednisone customization. It needs to be easy — really, really, ridiculously easy — to Prednisone buy Prednisone create something new. To reverse engineer. To change your mind, customize your Prednisone buy Prednisone message, substitute a different flavor, get the sauce on the side.

Back when Prednisone buy Prednisone I preached reusability, it was hard to make learning objects, and Prednisone buy Prednisone the amount of effort that had to be put into one justified the Prednisone buy Prednisone claim that reusability was desirable. But it needs to not be hard. We need ways that people — and not just geeky people — can Prednisone buy Prednisone decide one afternoon that they want to make a learning object (or call it what you will) and Prednisone buy Prednisone have it ready by dinnertime. It needs to be point-click-drag-click-clickclickclick easy. The tech isn’t there yet, at least not for everyone, but it’s getting very close.

Like Brian’s mashups, these things will have Prednisone buy Prednisone little existing pieces of other things pulled into them. This means the Prednisone buy Prednisone barrier we face isn’t just technological. We need to Prednisone buy Prednisone rethink ideas of ownership, permissions, fair use, and copyright. We need a Prednisone buy Prednisone model that works, so people can grab stuff, make stuff, and Prednisone buy Prednisone share stuff, and assemble it into a learning-object-of-the-moment. These things don’t have Prednisone buy Prednisone to last forever. I want something that responds to my instant need to Prednisone buy Prednisone communicate information by letting me pull words and sounds and clips and Prednisone buy Prednisone pictures and stuff together instantly. Let’s call it the Teachable Moment Authoring System.