I have written a new article for the TechEdge, the journal of the Texas Computer Education Association, which will be published in its winter print issue. The article is titled “Addressing CyberBullying in Schools.” This is the abstract/first paragraph: The digital environment increasingly provides a window into face to face (F2F) as well as virtual
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This podcast is a recording of a panel discussion on Dead and Emerging Technologies at the Hawaii Library Association’s annual conference on November 10, 2006. Participants in the panel included Aaron Schmidt, Jessamyn West, Wesley Fryer, Victor Edmonds, and Marshall Breeding. The panelists shared some brief ideas about first dead technologies and then emerging ones,
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Podcast102: Looking at Dead and Emerging Technologies [ 57:57 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1744)
Dr. Victor Edmonds serves as director of Educational Technology Services at UC Berkeley. This podcast is a recording of Dr. Edmond’s presentation at the Hawaii Library Association’s annual conference on November 10, 2006. Show notes for this podcast include: The Sakai Open Source Course Management System Educational Technology Services at UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Webcasts
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Good Morning America “and a group of experts” have declared “The Internet” one of the NEW seven wonders of the world. (Thanks to Katie Beedon for the link.) From connections between military family members half a world apart to cyberdating, the article heralds the ability of the Internet to connect people and bring them closer
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I posted some additional thoughts on “spray and pray” professional development models over at Techlearning earlier today.
I was pleased to learn today (via Jeremy Goldkorn) that China has chosen to unblock WikiPedia. Andrew Lih theorizes the reason for the unblock is that WikiPedia is value neutral, and the Chinese government is glimpsing the constructive power of the read/write web. He writes: I believe it was because of the argument Jimmy Wales
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The Tech Chicks (Anna Adam and Helen Mowers) have posted a podcast interview they conducted with me two weeks ago at the Beyond4Walls conference in the Dallas area. (Episode 12) Their questions were: What do you regard as your most essential piece of equipment for podcasting? Why did you start podcasting? What are the two
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Today’s NPR segment, “On YouTube, Popularity Can Be a Curse” discussed intellectual property issues in our era of YouTube-posted videos and antiquated copyright laws. One of the main points was that as YouTube videos become “viral hits,” they often draw higher levels of scrutiny which can result in legal demands to take them offline– especially
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Kathy Dunlap, one of the participants in my digital storytelling workshop this evening, directed me to Frank Baker’s website Media Literacy Clearinghouse: critical thinking about media messages. The site definitely has a wealth of resources related to media literacy. I applaud the goal of the site, stated on the “Math In the Media” page as:
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I think it was Frieda Foxworth and her co-presenters for K-12 Online who introduced me last week to the phrase “spray and pray” to characterize the predominant professional development model followed by most school districts in the United States when it comes to technology integration– as well as other new teaching ideas. This evening I
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In his article (linked on the Creativity Exchange) “Beyond Schools: A New Foundation for Education in the 21st Century” (PDF) Gary L. Thompson addresses several key questions and issues about reinventing education for our new millenium: If the World is Flat, then how do we Flatten Education? Education as [a] Pipeline Rather Than [a] Linear
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Some futurists claim that no one will be reading in 50 years. Some say America is a Republic of Movies and that Americans now tell their stories in movies rather than in books. One of Hawaii’s filmmakers shared her ideas on this topic in this recorded podcast from the Hawaii Library Association’s annual conference on
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Looking at Dead and Emerging Technologies A panel discussion at HLA 2006 Aaron Schmidt – floppy disks – extremely restrictively limited computers in libraries – CD-ROMS esp for databases: need to pay attention to remote access – static, boring websites – Frontpage – things that Aaron says is dead are still in use Jessamyn West
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This podcast is a skype recording from yesterday’s presentation (on November 10) at the 2006 Hawaii Library Association titled, “Creativity and Updating Mindware: Hardware and software are not holding us back!” During the session Jen Wagner (from southern California) and Graham Wegner (from Adelaide, South Australia) skyped in to share their ideas about teaching beyond
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There’s still time– If you have viewed any (even one or just part of one) of the presentations for the 2006 K-12 Online Conference, please take a few minutes and complete the post-conference online evaluation form. The deadline for submitting the survey is Sunday November 12, 2006. As of this posting, we’ve had just 59
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When I was going through the saved movie clips on my laptop in preparation for my session on digital storytelling here at HLA06, I came across this video news segment I recorded from Lubbock television on October 4, 2006. I uploaded the clip to YouTube– this is coverage of the rollout of iBook laptops to
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(audio version) We live in an amazing age of global travel and communications, which explorers like Lewis & Clark probably never imagined could exist. The information landscape today is similar to an amazing buffet of food: Full of choices, fraught with challenges, and ripe with opportunities. Like the ocean, the Internet can be a dangerous
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Reflections from Hawaii on our Information Landscape [ 28:38 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1314)
