In the April 5, 2008, NPR episode “Doing the iPod Shuffle,” Keith Devlin explains that iPod users can change a setting in their iPod to make the “shuffle” feature truly random, and prevent the iPod from repeating songs. (I heard this on the NPR Technology Podcast.) My difficulty with this is that, after searching through
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Zentation.com – where Video and PowerPoint meet on the Web Zentation provides a way to synchronize video uploaded to Google Video with your PowerPoint. (tags: powerpoint presentation web2.0 tools presentations technology ReadWriteWebTools) Asterpix Interactive Video – Home Put hyperlinks over your YouTube videos. Make hypervideos! Nice mashup. Powerful. (tags: youtube mashup mashups webvideo media tools
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Scott McLeod has announced an official contest to develop a logo for the phrase, “I’m here for the learning revolution.” Scott’s idea for these buttons in advance of NECC 2008 and this contest was a motivator for my post last week about wanting to write a book with this title. Scott’s center (CASTLE) is paying
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CNET’s April 14th article “The ’500,000-song’ iPod isn’t surprising” caught my attention recently. As the owner of an 80 GB iPod but just a 16 GB iPhone, the desire for additional storage space on a mobile, handheld computer is familiar to me. The article cites a breakthrough by IBM researchers which will increase hard drive
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Hack Attack: Mouse-less Firefox keyboard shortcuts for working with Firefox. The killer tip for me: Command-number for the tab you want to switch to. Excellent! (tags: firefox keyboardshortcut) AT&T to cut about 4,600 jobs, sees $374 million 1Q charge: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance AP Wire article 18 April 2008 (tags: att Economics) AT&T Media
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This weekend our family rode the Heartland Flyer from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth, Texas, and fell in love with travel by train. I was not only reminded of the messages of Carl Honore in his book “In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed,” but I actually watched his TedTalk again during the
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Our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices project advisory council has officially released an RFP for a video/media server solution. This RFP is available as a public Google document. The deadline for response is 5 May 2008. (In two weeks.) Vendors wanting to respond are required to submit a screencast and 2 page product summary to our covrfp.ning.com
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macam : USB webcam support for Mac OS X macam is a driver for USB webcams on Mac OS X. It allows hundreds of USB webcams to be used by many Mac OS X video-aware applications. The aim is to support as many webcams as possible. (tags: webcam software mac apple osx camera webcasting) Project
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Because of problems on the TechLearning blog with commenting, I am cross-posting this over here so you may comment on my blog if you are not able to comment there. (I wasn’t able to directly comment this morning on Dave Jakes’ post from yesterday, so I’m following his lead.) I’m a staunch advocate for project-based
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123VC: The JAZZ IVC Project Online Community a collaborative professional development program for teachers focused on learning creative ways to effectively integrate videoconferencing into the curriculum. (tags: Videoconferencing TechnologyIntegration professionaldevelopment collaboration collaborativeprojects) homemadetextbook wiki – This wiki is for the students of my c… wiki-based textbook for students learning about technology (tags: opencontent textbooks etextbook
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Kim Caise drew my attention this evening to the March 26, 2008 article in a San Antonio-based newspaper “Teachers say principal threatened to kill them if TAKS test scores didn’t improve.” Incredibly, the principal was apparently not kidding in issuing this death threat to his teachers. According to the article: Anita White, who taught at
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I co-presented a 1.5 hour class this evening in Oklahoma City at a local church entitled “Tech Talk,” which addressed a wide variety of questions people had about digital photography, DVRs, iPods, Internet searching, and more. I had presented for this “Discoveries” class series previously, but addressed Internet Safety. During those sessions, I utilized the
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This podcast is a recording of a conversation on December 5, 2007 with Judy Beaver, director of instructional technology at the Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii, about their 1:1 laptop learning initiative. Judy discusses how she utilized research findings from Dr. Robert Marzano’s noted book “Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement”
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Podcast247: Transformative Project Based Learning in a 1:1 Laptop Initiative: 10 Years of Lessons and Best Practices at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii [ 56:20 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3105)
This podcast is a recording of a 1.5 hour presentation I co-presented with Eric Hileman at a local Oklahoma City church about a variety of technology topics including Internet searching, debunking email myths (urban legends,) digital photography, iPods, iTunes, iTunes University, and more. We touched on a lot of topics but certainly didn’t cover EVERYTHING
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Podcast246: A Tech Talk for Retirees by Eric Hileman and Wesley Fryer [ 1:39:45 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2926)
I heard some good guidelines today regarding how we should decide what we write down and send to others via email. The recommendations said you should never write what you: would not say aloud would not write in a letter to someone else with your name at the bottom don’t want published in a newspaper
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Many advocates for effective technology integration in the classroom and in our lives discuss the importance of PERSONAL use of technology tools. As teachers (and others) embrace technology uses for tasks they find personally rewarding, engaging, meaningful and relevant, they begin to not only overcome some of their fears about using technologies but also begin
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Welcome to episode five of the Technology Shopping Cart podcast where educational innovation thrives on the food of creative ideas! This week Karen Montgomery, Vicki Allen and Wesley Fryer host an interview with Kristine Molnar of PBwiki. PBwiki is one of our favorite web 2.0 sites for creating collaborative wiki documents with teachers and students.
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Podcast245: Technology Shopping Cart Podcast05 - Digital Citizenship and an Interview with Christine of PBWiki [ 56:58 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (4975)
FieldFindr ยป home (project wiki) A space where teachers can meet global citizens who have skills that they are willing to contribute to a class. (tags: globalcitizenship globalvoices collaborativeprojects collaboration education school learning) Tweetburner A tool for directly posting shortened URLs to Twitter for your blog posts or other sites you want to share. Keeps
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I’m not sure I can do this, and guess this is not likely legally binding in any way, but I would like to none-the-less formally “claim” a title for a book I want to write in the not too distant future. (Specifically, at whatever point I regain full control of my own intellectual property.) The
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I am reading Rob Bell’s book “Velvet Elvis” along with about 50 other men in our church’s Friday morning men’s group, and came across the following passage recently which resonated with me as a teacher. Rob wrote: Tour guides are people who see depth and texture and connections where others don’t. That is why the
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