NECC_Button_Moseley.png (PNG Image, 600×750 pixels) – Scaled (82%) Winning button for the “I am here for the learning revolution” contest sponsored by Scott Mcleod and Wesley Fryer in April and May of 2008 in advance of NECC 2008. (tags: learning education schoolreform learningrevolution necc necc2008) Google Online Security Blog: Safe Browsing Diagnostic To The Rescue
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I spent a year living in Mexico City during 1992-1993 studying and writing about a variety of security issues including the U.S. led “war on drugs.” My longest paper from that research era, “US Drug Control in the Americas: Time for a Change,” reviewed historical and contemporary efforts (as of 1993) to combat the scourge
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I’m sharing the commencement address for graduating seniors in Howe, Oklahoma, this evening starting at 7:00 pm US central time. Connectivity permitting, I’ll webcast my presentation live on Ustream. I haven’t seen the program yet, but I’m guessing I’ll start around 7:15… I’ll post an update to twitter when I have a better idea of
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Dr. Scott Mcleod (over at Dangerously Irrelevant) and I have selected a winner for the button contest Scott announced back in April. That button and contest idea was inspired by my April 16th post and book title claim, “Here For The Learning Revolution.” The winning design was created by Bill Moseley: If you visit Bill’s
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Advocates for Digital Citizenship, Safety, and Success | Google Groups This is a grassroots efforts started by educators to promote the active instruction of students, parents, and administrators on topics concerning digital citizenship, safety, and success. We want to mobilize ONLINE but take our actions OFFLINE into our o (tags: digitalcitizenship citizenship internet_safety safety internetsafety
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If you are a principal, teacher or other school employee involved in conducting teacher interviews, be sure to check out David Warlick’s latest podcast for Connect Learning, “Episode 98 — More Conversation with Chris Lehmann.” Chris is the principal of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia. SLA is an exemplary school for many reasons, but
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MRTG – Tobi Oetiker’s MRTG – The Multi Router Traffic Grapher A tool for monitoring and graphing router usage (tags: OpenSource Networking linux network) Cocoia Blog » Graph your Airport Express / Extreme data throughput and more. A how-to tutorial about using the open source tool MRTG to graph your router traffic using an Airport
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This evening after I removed wireless encryption from our home network to accommodate our new XO laptop, I started reviewing the wireless router logs on our Airport Express router and access point to see if any previously unknown or unwelcome visitors were attached to and using our wireless network. Using the Airport Utility application on
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Educators at Asher Public School in Asher, Oklahoma, created the VoiceThread “Questions for Graduates” in our workshop about summer learning opportunities with web 2.0 tools today. If you are a current graduate of high school or college, or know one, feel free to respond and invite others to respond to these questions. I have comment
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I want to publicly thank the world-famous Vicki Davis for taking some time out of her busy schedule the last day of school today to videoconference with about 15 teachers in Asher Public School in Asher, Oklahoma. Vicki and Julie Lindsay won numerous awards (ISTE SIGTel Online Learning Award 2007, Edublog Best Wiki Award 2006,
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Thanks to the generosity of Colin Davitt, my dreams and those of my family to have our own XO laptop have come true! (I interviewed Colin last December right before Christmas about his first impressions of the XO.) The XO arrived this afternoon in the mail, and by the time I got home after six
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My 2nd grade daughter, Sarah, spent last week in Washington DC touring and learning with her grandparents, and this week is in Colonial Williamsburg. Williamsburg is celebrating it’s 400 year anniversary right now, and it has been fantastic for Sarah and her grandparents to experience the exciting activities there in person this week. This is
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One To One Institute – Home Commercially sponsored website by HP and Intel focused on 1:1 learning (laptop learning initiatives) (tags: 1to1 1:1 laptoplearning laptop education school2) Stephen Heppell’s homepage learning • ingenuity • research • policy • design • technology • delight • (and sailing!) (tags: education learning ingenuity innovation) Archived presentations from the
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If you have not already, be sure to mark your fall (northern hemisphere) or spring (southern hemisphere) calendar for the 2008 K-12 Online Conference. The 2008 conference theme is “Amplifying Possibilities.” This year’s conference begins with a pre-conference keynote the week of October 13, 2008. The following two weeks, October 20-24 and October 27-31, forty
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One of the paradoxical results of our politically-imposed focus on high stakes accountability and test scores in U.S. K-12 public schools is that many teachers and students have their eyes on minimum standards rather than exceptionally high expectations for each student’s learning and growth. Arnold Toynbee’s quotation of the day from my iGoogle portal resonates
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Garmin: eTrex Legend HCx Software Update Collection Software for our Garmin GPS unit (tags: garmin software gps) Garmin | Mac OS X – Current Software, news and more updated Macintosh software for Garmin GPS products (tags: garmin gps software macintosh) Garmin | Communicator Plugin Communication with your Garmin GPS just got easier thanks to the
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It’s official! My 10 year old son and I have joined the ranks of geocachers worldwide! According to the current WikiPedia article for geocaching: Geocaching is an outdoor treasure-hunting game in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers (called “geocaches” or “caches”) anywhere
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Readdle — iPhone book reader and file storage Share documents including eBooks with your iPhone for mobile access and use (tags: iphone webapp webapps productivity mobilephone mobile mobility) Mobile Site for Ask.com Search Engine – Better Web Search Can speak directions into your phone and get them sent via IM back to you (in a
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I continue to be a vocal advocate of web-based digital storytelling tools which primarily use still images and audio narration, like VoiceThread, but the growing availability of web-based video editing and animation creation environments may entice me to begin experimenting with web-based digital stories which go beyond narrated slideshows. One difficulty with all these websites
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(I have shared the following as a new post on the TechLearning blog, but because of problems with the commenting setup there I am cross-posting here so you can leave comments if desired.) This past week, thanks to Bob Sprankle’s “geek of the week” on the May 8th edition of the Bit by Bit podcast,
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