Whoa, this is quite an exciting development. Still in invitation-only alpha testing phase, Riya is a photo search website with technology permitting users to search faces for similar photographs. This is 21st century technology for sure. Thanks to Ewan Mcintosh for alerting me to this.
Archive for December, 2005:
Teacher Man
“Teacher Man: A Memoir” by Frank McCourt looks like a great book to read in 2006. Thanks to Chris Lehmann for the recommendation! This excerpt from the first Amazon.com editorial review caught my attention: “My life saved my life,” he [Frank McCourt] writes. “My students didn’t know there was a man up there escaping a
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Wavepad and Rosegarden
Wavepad is a free Windows-based audio editing software program well suited for podcasting. Rosegarden is a similar program for Linux-based computers. My favorite podcasting software remains Audacity (free for Windows, Macintosh and Linux users) but I plan to give SoundTrackPro a try in 2006 as well (it is Mac-only). I also love Garageband, but have
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Podcast28: Educational Banners and Resolutions for 2006
Five different issues can be considered educational banners worth waving, torches worth carrying into the darkness, and issues worth fighting for in 2006 and beyond in the contexts of teaching and learning as well as educational technology. In this podcast I discuss and explore these issues, and also highlight John Dewey’s definition of experience from
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DigiTales and StoryMaking Steps
Bernajean’s Porter’s DigiTales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories is a great resource website for both novice and experienced digital storytellers, and especially good for educators (like me) wanting to help students learn how to more effectively tell digital stories. I love the anonymous quotation on the front page: Digital storytelling begins with the notion
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Einstein Endorsement
Hey, is this cool or what?! Thanks to Andrew, a Flickr contact from Bejing, for alerting me to the amazing website archive where I discovered this image tonight! This one is also potential poster-material for a K-16 classroom near you! Go ahead, make your own version! Playing in the web 2.0 world is equivalent to
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YouTube and Technological Anarchy
A new website, YouTube, is now serving millions of Internet videos online every day to a global audience. A Google News search will provide more current articles on YouTube and the discussion it is raising as will a Technorati search for the same term. The marketing slogan of YouTube is: Broadcast yourself. Watch and share
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Educational Banner Evangelism
I think I need to re-write my “Macintosh evangelist” page linked at the bottom of all my blog entries and most of my other personal webpages, and change it to “21st Century Educational Banner Evangelism” on the following issues. This is not because I am dumping the Mac OS in lieu of Linux or because
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Open Source Tipping Point?
The following is a trackback response to a post Miguel Guhlin wrote on December 26th relating to open source and intellectual property issues, in part raised by his viewing of the excellent “Free Culture” web-presentation by Lawrence Lessig. I am with you on wanting to support open source alternatives, Miguel, but I don’t think the
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Including cyberspace in official mission
The U.S. Air Force announced a new mission statement in early December 2005: The mission of the United States Air Force is to deliver sovereign options for the defense of the United States of America and its global interests — to fly and fight in Air, Space, and Cyberspace. This replaced the previous mission statement:
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Educational artists self-renew
I am about one-third of the way through the fantastic book “John Dewey and the Art of Teaching: Toward Reflective and Imaginative Practice” by Douglas J. Simpson, Michael J. B. Jackson, and Judy C. Aycock. I have taken 3 of my doctoral C&I classes from Dr. Simpson at Texas Tech, he is one of the
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Xyle Scope
Webpage coding has become a LOT more complicated since the “early” days of the mid to late 1990s. Time was a person could VIEW SOURCE and quickly get a good idea at what underlying code the designer used to make a particular effect. With the advent of cascading style sheets and other web standards, web
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Classroom Audio Podcasting
I have finished writing a new article for the TechEdge this evening/morning entitled, “Classroom Audio Podcasting.” I have had to write another article from scratch since TCEA refused to publish a 2nd article I wrote this fall, this time concerning digital curriculum and bandwidth. Admittedly the piece was politically strident, but I am still very
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Great Prime Rib!
This is the recipe I used this past Christmas to successfully cook a quite succulent prime rib for our Lubbock family. Turkey pales in comparison to the amazing flavor of a well-cooked prime rib!
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Great digital storytelling example and assignment
Thanks to a blog post from Lawrence Lessig I discovered this delightful, short digital story by Jonathan Coulton composed entirely with Flickr Creative Commons images. This will make an excellent assignment for the updated version of my Advanced Multimedia and Video spring course. Since students are only given the option of using Windows XP in
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Ray Kurzweil on Future Technology
Whoa. I listened today to the 34 minute Science Friday podcast from December 23, 2005, featuring Ray Kurzweil discussing future technologies. He is the author of “The Singularity Is Near : When Humans Transcend Biology.” In the podcast interview, Kurzweil focuses mostly on the growth of biotechnology, where biology and technology are increasingly being wed.
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Modern day gnosticism
Remember if you are not interested in reading posts like this about non-education/educational technology stuff, you can always subscribe to the “edtech only” feed for my blog. Tonight for fun (and in preparation for my continuing Sunday school teaching series about the theology of C.S. Lewis) I spent about an hour and fifteen minutes listening
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Why I love Pictionary
I love the board game Pictionary! I have for played it for years and loved it for years, but have never owned my own copy. This Christmas I was thrilled to receive it as a gift from my family. I think I love Pictionary for the following reasons: It is competitive. It is all about
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Teachers, Youth and Technology
Stephanie Rieger posed some good points and questions recently in a comment to a post I made about digital immigrants and digital natives. Rather than post my reply as a follow-up comment, I am posting as this as a new topic. Your feedback on this will be welcome! First, I agree that TIME seems like
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Digital Ethics
Doug Johnson’s “Teaching Students Right from Wrong in the Digital Age: A Technology Ethics Primer” (PDF) is an excellent resource for 21st century educators. He is the author of the book “Learning Right from Wrong in the Digital Age: An Ethics Guide for Parents, Teachers, Librarians, and Others Who Care About Computer-Using Young People.” In
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