This week has already included two major life milestones for me, and one more is coming on Friday: Texas Tech University officially approved the final, corrected version of my dissertation (“Impact Analysis of Phonecasted Lecture Summaries“) for publication in the Texas Digital Library. Today’s notification email indicated I should be ready to wait up to
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If you are a college administrator, please take note. The survey result below means (among other things) you should consider hiring more profs with 21st century digital literacy skills so they can share those skills with students. (Yes, this is also a shameless, self-promotional plug!) …more than half of all students (56 percent) said they
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I shared the following thoughts in response to Kevin Corbett‘s post last week, “Your Advice To A New College Graduate?” Remember the plans you have today are unlikely to unfold in exactly the ways you’re anticipating now. Remember networking and personal connections are VITALLY important and they will open up doors for you that you
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This is a guest blog post by Sherman Nicodemus. My teenage daughter recently started receiving annoying text messages on her iPhone from another student at her school. This isn’t a case of bullying: Apparently this particular student likes to send “group SMS messages” like some folks send spam email. In this post I’ll describe how
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This video made my day. Check it out and pass it on. I serendipitously found this video using the free ShowYou app for iPad this afternoon at the conclusion of my “iPad Apps for Business Productivity” workshop. I really like how the app highlights videos shared by people you follow on Twitter and Facebook. It
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I’d like to be the first to personally invite you to iPad Media Camp in Oklahoma City July 11, 12 and 13, 2012! iPad Media Camp is a three day series of hands-on workshops designed to inspire and equip educators to facilitate student media projects using iPads. Read more about each day’s planned learning activities
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I’m guessing the musical enthusiasm for the Common Core State Standards Initiative reflected in the YouTube songs below might make a few folks ill, but they are likely to make at least a few others laugh and smile. Perhaps some will even be inspired. In preparation for our district end-of-year celebration, I’ve contributed a few
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(Cross-posted to Instructional FAQs for Yukon PS) After you create a free teacher “channel” on YouTube, in addition to publishing/sharing videos there you can also EDIT them in basic ways. This support article from Google explains how to add, trim, customize, add audio and publish edited videos using the YouTube website editor. This is a
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(Cross-posted to Instructional FAQs for Yukon PS) Question: I’m using an iPad to try and view an eBook created by a student with the Book Creator app. The finished eBook is posted on Posterous.com. It downloaded to my iPad and shows up in the iBooks app, but it won’t open. What should I do? Answer:
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In December 2011 I taught a series of workshops over video which I called, ‘The 12 Days of Playing with Media.” It didn’t end up being twelve actual days, but the series was a success and I enjoyed teaching several of the “core skills” addressed in my eBook, “Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful
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I’m headed to south Texas this weekend for an annual men’s conference, and am looking forward to sharing a breakout session this year. For my handout, I opted to make a “bookmark size” flyer and primarily feature three QR codes. I used the website qrcode.kaywa.com to create the first two QR codes, and www.qrstuff.com for
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I have some rather geeky questions about sending SMS messages I’m hoping someone can help me with. by katielips What options are available for someone (or an organization) who wants to send custom SMS messages from a consistent, originating SMS number, which are triggered by a server script or email message? Of these options, which is
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Last night at the “iPad App Coffee Chat” I facilitated in Edmond, Oklahoma, at The Div, we discussed a variety of iPad applications for viewing and watching videos as well as creating and sharing them. ShowYou and Shufflr were the first two I demonstrated, since they allow users to connect their Twitter and Facebook accounts.
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This weekend, my 8th grade son and I worked on a project for his science class he’s been planning for over a month. In March I asked him to record a short podcast we posted over on our family learning blog, “Draft Design for a Complex Machine to Generate Electricity from Water Power.” This was
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These are my notes from the April 20, 2012, Oklahoma City WordPress User’s Group meeting which focused on “Security Tips for WordPress.” The security portion of our meet up tonight was shared by Chris Dodds, whose website is FocusFire. (@focusfirebiz on Twitter) MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. We met at The Div
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Like Khan Academy, WolframAlpha is a website everyone should know about– especially anyone taking a math class or helping someone else enrolled in a math class. This evening, I used WolframAlpha to check several different problems my son was working for an end-of-year assignment in his Geometry class. You can see the syntax I used
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A few weeks ago one of the guys in my Friday morning men’s group at our church shared a touching video on YouTube as part of his lesson. This seven minute video was created by an student in Oklahoma who has gone through an incredible number of surgeries since she was born. It is difficult
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The connections made possible via Internet-based publishing and communication can be both enlightening and challenging. When I was a cadet at the US Air Force Academy in the late 1980s / early 1990s, I wrote a paper about U.S. Prisoners of War (POWs) who were left behind in Southeast Asia following the formal end of
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Yesterday in Enid Public Schools in Oklahoma, a middle school student was beaten unconscious and sent to the hospital following a playground fight. Enid superintendent Shawn Hime was quoted in this News on 6 article: Hine said the argument turned physical and that a teacher supervising the playground broke up the fight. “Nothing is more
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(Cross-posted to “Instructional FAQs for Yukon Public Schools” and PlayingWithMedia.com) Photos can be added to blog posts in different ways. In this post I’ll explain how to add a photo as a linked image on a free (and ad-free) KidBlog.org site. To reduce the amount of time students spend (and possibly waste) searching for Internet
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