Thanks to Lee Anne of The Eighth Floor in Tulsa, Oklahoma for drawing my attention today to the marvelous TeacherTube video “6 & 7 Year Olds and BLOGS” (from Nelson Central School in New Zealand) via her post, “What About Blogs?” My favorite responses from the students to the question “Why do you like having
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Christy Tvarok, in her post “Make Noise, Make Change,” encourages teachers around the United States to share their vision for educational change in our nation, particularly as it relates to digital literacy and technology integration. She is going to mail the aggregated responses directly to the current US candidates for President. Please add your perspectives
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Amazing storm and tornado photos (tags: photography weather image tornado) WebTools4u2use ” home Great list of web-based tools and software (tags: software web2.0 ReadWriteWebTools)
I posted the following as a response to Corey White’s comment on my February post, “Advocating for differentiated content filtering.” This was a lengthy comment, and seemed to justify its own post. Hopefully my tone here is not too confrontational. Corey: Like many in IT in our schools, your comment reflects an assumption that part
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Chandler Project – Welcome an open source, standards-based personal information manager (PIM) built around small group collaboration and a core set of information management workflows modelled on Inbox usage patterns and David Allen’s GTD methodology. (tags: email EmailManagement organization organizer gtd) Accordent Technologies :: Enterprise Rich Media Solutions (tags: coursecasting webcasting podcasting distributedlearning) Tandberg Mobile
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This podcast is a recording of a presentation shared by John Copeland of VBrick at the Oklahoma Distance Learning Association (ODLA) spring conference on April 28, 2008, in Oklahoma City at MetroTech Springlake. John discussed the company VBrick as well as their products, but also provided an excellent overview of streaming video formats, standards, technologies,
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Podcast250: An Overview of Streaming Video Formats, Standards, Technologies, and Considerations from John Copeland of VBrick [ 51:40 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3902)
This podcast features an interview with Oklahoma K-12 educator Lance Ford, who has recently custom modded his Honda Element with an in-car 7″ touch LCD screen, a Mac Mini computer, and an AT&T wireless network card to create his own mobile commander: A vehicle for mobile computing, desktop videoconferencing, and webcasting. In this interview (conducted
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Podcast249: Pimp My Ride (digitally) Southeast Oklahoma Style (An Interview with Lance Ford: Mac Jedi) [ 23:50 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (6517)There are few people alive (or who have ever lived) who combine the passion for education, the digital saavy, and an amazing (and) beautiful geekiness together the way Lance Ford does. Without a doubt, Lance IS the Oklahoma Mac Jedi. I, along with a chorus of others attending the Oklahoma Distance Learning Association (ODLA) spring
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These are my notes from David Rogers’ presentation at the ODLA 28 April 2008 spring meeting in Oklahoma City. My thoughts and comments are in ALL CAPS. Communication / Collaboration tools – web collaboration – video conferencing – live and on demand rich media streaming (limited interactivity) we capture audio, video, and any presentation materials
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Cell/Mobile Phones in Education from wwwtools for Education Extensive listing of links and resources (tags: cell cellphonelearning mobile mobilephone education school) Change Congress — Blog Blog of Larry Lessig’s organization Change Congress, a movement to empower and support the reform efforts of multiple organizations focused on changing the US Congress (tags: activism Politics changecongress) Google
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I’m not sure how long this has been available, but I was glad this evening to discover that Google Reader permits users to share subscribed feeds by tag: To do this, click MANAGE SUBSCRIPTIONS below your list of subscribed feeds in Google Reader and click the TAGS link. Click the checkbox beside the tag you’d
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Technology : NPR All technology related articles and episodes on NPR. Great updates! (tags: technology news) Study: Apple Logo Stimulates the Brain : NPR Weekend Edition Saturday, April 5, 2008 · A new study shows that just being exposed to the Apple logo can make you more creative. Duke researcher Gavan Fitzsimons talks with NPR’s
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Welcome to episode six of the Technology Shopping Cart podcast where educational innovation thrives on the food of creative ideas! This week Karen Montgomery and Wesley Fryer discuss the important but controversial subject of using cell phones and other mobile devices for learning in K-12 as well as university classrooms. This podcast is the first
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Podcast248: Technology Shopping Cart Podcast06 - Cell Phones and Mobile Devices for Learning (Part 1 of 2) [ 58:47 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (6897)
Project Management Software, Collaboration Software: Wrike Wrike is an integrated online project management solution that helps you manage projects, teams and businesses. By turning email overload into well-organized plans on the Web, Wrike makes your organization more efficient, transparent and agile. Wrike is c (tags: projectmanagement software collaboration project tools productivity pbl) reQall: What’s reQall
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I’ve added a new session entitled “Digital Storytelling as THE Disruptive Change Agent for the 21st Century Learning Revolution” to the EduBloggerCon San Antonio 2008 Session Offers wiki page. The description I suggested is: The digital connections now possible via blogging and other social networking technologies are phenomenal and potentially transforming for educators around the
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It’s easy to lose or turn off someone who does not consider themselves tech-saavy by using acronyms like RSS. Just what is RSS? I created a short video in 2005 with my graduate students at Wayland Baptist University in Lubbock to try and explain RSS in plain language, but I think Oprah has an even
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As I am sure you have noticed, we’re living in an attention economy where information is exploding. With all the content around us, how do we manage available information streams most effectively and efficiently? This is an essential question for EVERYONE, not just those of us who are admitted “geeks.” Information continues to explode, but
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Smithsonian Magazine | People Facinating article detailing claims that the Ark of the Covenant remains in Ethiopia, where it has been for 3000 years (tags: ethiopia judism bible Christianity history) Smithsonian Magazine | People Interesting interview about a reporter living off “the grid” in SE New Mexico, USA (tags: environment environmentaleducation green) Doug Fine: Author,
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A couple of years ago when our family spent time in and around Jemez Springs, New Mexico, I met several local residents who aspired to “live off the grid.” By “the grid,” they meant the electricity grid to which most of us in the “developed world” are connected every minute of our lives, and without
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Making the iPod’s shuffle function work better [Maximum Aardvark] Tips for making smart playlists in iTunes for your iPod (tags: ipod itunes music apple) Educators on virtual islands see classroom potential | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle 19 April 2008 article about educators and second life – thanks @ssandifer (tags: secondlife second_life education learning professionaldevelopment virtualization
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