These are my notes from David Jakes and Dean Shareski’s NECC 2008 presentation, “One Hour PowerPoint: A Strategy for Improving Presentations.” http://jakes.editme.com/ Dean Shareski’s blog: http://ideasandthoughts.org/ 10 things you can do tomorrow with your kids to improve your PowerPoint I still see many kids doing pretty bad things with PowerPoint in our schools – we
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These are my notes from David Thornburg’s NECC 2008 presentation “Open Minds: Open Education and Open Culture” on June 30, 2008. David has granted me permission to non-commercially record and share this presentation subsequently. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. dthornburg [at] aol [dot] com David has handouts not related to this session,
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Free Screen Recorder – AutoScreenRecorder – Best Free Screen Recorder Home AutoScreenRecorder 3.0 Free is a completely free screen recorder to save your screen activities into video files. It is free for unlimited personal and business use. It has no expiration date and can be distributed with free of charge. (recommended by Ka (tags: screencast
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My first big disappointment for NECC 2008 is that Apple will not be present on the vendor floor of the conference as an exhibitor. I heard rumors about this last week but could not believe them: How could Apple Computer, my favorite computer hardware and software company, simply bow out of the most important educational
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I participated in an extremely positive and energizing panel discussion today at NECC 2008 organized by Pearson Education. Participants included Jo McLeay, Cheryl Oakes, Joyce Valenza, Chris Lehmann, Lucy Gray, Julie Lindsey, and Vicki Davis. Elaine Roberts of Pearson told us we would be able to have an audio copy of our discussion, and I
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At EduBloggerCon 2008 in San Antonio, Texas, on June 28th, some controversy arose regarding the presence of videographers hired by Pearson Education. Steve Hargadon, who was the primary organizer of EduBloggerCon, gave permission to Pearson to attend and videotape many of the sessions pending permission from the presenters and speakers themselves. Today I had an
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Podcast 260: EduBloggerCon 2008, Recording, Intellectual Property and Recording: A Conversation with Elaine Roberts of Pearson [ 13:20 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3002)eduplan ยป home wiki started by Stephanie Sandifer to collaboratively imagine the 21st century school (tags: school education technology plan planning vision)
These are my notes from Stephanie Sandifer’s closing session at EdubloggerCon 2008 in San Antonio, “Designing the 21st Century Global Learning Environment.” Our work in this session focused on the wiki: eduplan.wikispaces.com. What school is NOT … (let’s brainstorm that) – This idea came from Ginger Lewman, who shared her thinking and work with others
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These are a few of my notes from EduBloggerCon San Antonio sessions on school leadership and pre-service teacher education issues for our web 2.0 world on 28 June 2008. MY COMMENTS AND THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Critical issues for administrators: Asking and answering the questions: – What is learning? – What should Motto of
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My notes from the EduBloggerCon 2008 Social Networking for Professional Development Social Networking for PD What are the “magical moments” that hook educators into social networking for professional development and KEEP them participating? (NOT becoming like a “podfader” as Dan Schmidt has called people who Welcoming communities are VERY important in educator social networks -
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Today was a road-trip first! I trekked down I-35 to NECC in San Antonio with Charlie Mahoney, Kevin Honeycutt, Dean Mantz, Michelle Honeycutt, and Ginger Lewman. Since we had multiple Macbook laptops in our two cars, a mobile AT&T 3G wireless card, and a DV camcorder with a long firewire cable, naturally when we got
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It’s official. I submitted my two weeks notice today to AT&T, resigning as the Director of Education Advocacy for Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Wisconsin and Michigan effective Friday, July 11th. I’ll start work on July 14th for the Oklahoma Heritage Association in Oklahoma City (a 501(c)(3)) as their Director of Technology and Education Outreach. I have
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Our fourth day of stopmotion filmmaking fun at our church’s fine arts camp ended today, and our final completed video count stands at 22. None of these films tell complete stories, and many are pretty random, but they do represent a great deal of learning, work, and fun! I published all our videos this evening
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Harare woman: ‘If you talk too much… they hunt you down’ – CNN.com Journalist says he’s seen “people having their hands chopped off, fingers broken” (Zimbabwe elections 25 June 2008 (tags: africa zimbabwe elections democracy humanrights Selfdetermination) 2008 Kids 2008 Report by Scholastic on kids, parents, reading and technology (tags: reading research technology digitalculture) How-to
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I’ve created a “Digital Storytellers” group on the NECC 2008 Ning, as well as an accompanying wiki site. I’m hoping others interested in digital storytelling will contribute to and use these resources to share links and ideas related to digital storytelling next week in San Antonio and afterwards! Please join in! Technorati Tags: necc, necc08,
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At long last, Sheryl, Darren, Dean and I are pleased to announce the keynote speakers for the 2008 K-12 Online Conference! Stephen Heppell, Alice Barr, Cheryl Oakes, Bob Sprankle, Gardner Campbell, Chris Lehmann, Vicki Davis, and Julie Lindsay will all be keynoting this year. What a fantastic lineup of presenters! If you’re not familiar with
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Wow! NECC 2008 is still a few days away, but thanks to ongoing discussions on the conference Ning I feel like the conference has already physically started. It HAS virtually started, thanks to the Ning, so perceptually for me and many others it HAS started… Are we living in exciting times or what?! When I
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Mixx – News, photo, and video sharing Similar site to Digg, only it is utilized by CNN (tags: news web2.0 social community digg) Hashtags Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by
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Steve Dembo’s June 2nd post to the NECC 2008 conference Ning, “Stream and be streamed,” generated quite a bit of discussion. One of the most interesting issues raised by commenters, in my view, was Brian Crosby’s remark about bandwidth in light of MANY impromptu, expected streaming sessions at NECC 2008. Brian wrote: One thought …
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I know it’s a bit late in the game (just 4 days off) but I added the following proposal to the session wiki for EduBloggerCon San Antonio this evening: WordPress as a Blogging Platform: Plug-Ins, Options, Pitfalls and Benefits Wordpress is an outstanding open source blogging engine. Let’s visit about our favorite plug-ins for WordPress,
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