Archive for July 27th, 2006:


DOPA might not kill all DSN education in schools

I have (at last) taken some time to read the entire text of the proposed DOPA legislation, as passed by the US House of Reps yesterday. I am going to encourage all the teachers / parents / adults at my session tomorrow at MTI 2006 on “Safe Digital Social Networking” (DSN) to use sites like

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Virtual Field Trips: Take Students on An Adventure to Learn

Preso by Tori Bihannon and Shirley Farmer at MTI 2006 sponsored by MACE Kansas have headphones in the computer lab if you are doing virtual field trips! Questions – do you think field trips are too expensive, time consuming, a lot of trouble – do you feel travel time for a field trip is time

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Putting the “interactive” into interactive electronic whiteboards

Preso by Brian Retzlaff at MTI 2006 sponsored by MACE Kansas Session will draw on another presentation: “The Art of the Digital Lesson: Technology Tools Removing the Tether” – Brian got permission from his new employer (Cytek) to take any technology back into his classroom before he started working for them smartboard, interwrite, promethean whiteboard

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DOPA passes US House of Reps

Mark Ahlness referenced me to Andy Carvin’s website, where he reported today that DOPA has passed the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly. Perhaps not a surprise, but certainly a disappointment. To see the vote breakdown, check out GovTrack.us’s page on DOPA. You can also read the full-text of the bill on their website. Do we

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Podcast, Vodcast, Screencast Nation

Preso by Will Richardson at MTI 2006 sponsored by MACE Kansas blog: weblogged-ed.com email: weblogged at gmail dot com presentation resources: webloggedlinks.pbwiki.com This is all about kids teaching – we should help kids create stuff so that when it is disseminated widely, it helps other people learn 30,000 uploads to Youtube.com per day We have

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RSS: Connecting Ideas and Knowledge

Preso by Will Richardson at MTI 2006 sponsored by MACE Kansas blog: weblogged-ed.com email: weblogged at gmail dot com presentation resources: webloggedlinks.pbwiki.com His free RSS guide (PDF) Using his tablet and MS Office OneNote 2003 to teach this preso Basic idea: is a technology that let’s you consume more content, instead of having to have

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A Web of Connections: Why the Read/Write Web Changes Everything

Keynote by Will Richardson at MTI 2006 sponsored by MACE Winfield, KS 27 July 2006 blog: weblogged-ed.com email: weblogged at gmail dot com presentation resources: webloggedlinks.pbwiki.com (Will has granted permission for me to post an audio recording of his keynote this morning, which I’ll be posting later tonight as a podcast.) Preliminary announcements by MTI

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