I was enthused to see this afternoon the social bookmarking website del.icio.us has gotten a redesign and facelift: The domain del.icio.us seems to now automatically redirect to delicious.com. Previously I don’t think this redirect was automatic from the “.us” site to the “.com” site. Previously I think it was reversed, the “.com” site redirected to
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One of our StoryChaser educators (jpatten) posted a great question in the forum on the StoryChasers learning community, and because I want to share a rather long answer I am posting it here. The question was: I will be implementing a Federal EETT grant this year with some of my 5th grade teachers (science). Part
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The No Revisions WordPress Plugin @ WordPress Plugins [HostScope] Required currently to fix PodPress plug-in functionality with WordPress 2.6 (tags: wordpress podpress podcasting plugins Plugin) Operation Videoswap :: Operation Never Forgotten :: Honoring United States troops and military families COMMERICAL SERVICE: Keep military families and friends close while loved ones are on deployment or in
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This evening’s brainstorming session about the Storychasers project using a skypecast was a success, although the experience was a bit mixed. We ended up with forty participants who stayed with us to the end, but we had a rocky start for several reasons. A few people using Macintosh computers reported that they were able to
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I received a question from Amy Hopkins in northeast Texas today that may be on the minds of more educators: “How can I join tonight’s skypecast?” (Last night’s published podcast and my July 25th post “Let’s brainstorm ideas for Storychasers” provide more background about this.) Before I answer that question, I want to point out
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One of the delightful potentials we have today if we’re fortunate to be digitally connected to the Internet and own (or have access) to a mobile audio player (like an iPod) is to be influenced regularly by amazing people and their thought-provoking ideas. Several months ago I became aware of the power of “smart playlists”
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This podcast is a recorded skype conversation between Cheryl Lykowski and Wesley Fryer, discussing a new idea for a collaborative project titled “StoryChasers.” The current (but evolving) “about” page for the StoryChasers website states: Storychasers is a multi-state (and potentially multi-national) educational collaborative empowering students and teachers to responsibly record and share stories of local,
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Podcast269: Background and Formative Ideas for the Storychasers Project [ 27:05 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (5004)
NOTk12onlineconference.org? What is THAT? Give a listen and learn! Technorati Tags: k12online, k12online08, notk12online, notk12online08
Thanks to James Lewin for his post “Plug-In Fixes PodPress Problem With WordPress 2.6″ which alerted me to “The No Revisions WordPress Plugin.” I can personally confirm that this plug-in DOES fix PodPress functionality in WordPress 2.6. Technorati Tags: wordpress, podpress, blog, podcast, podcasting, plugin, bug, fix
This podcast includes interviews with Scott Swanson, the Strategic Technology Coordinator at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora, Illinois, recorded in March and July of 2008, as well as April Hope, a 2008 graduate of IMSA and Scott’s current intern. They discuss the activities of IMSA students in forming the first OLPC (XO
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Podcast268: Conversations with Scott Swanson and April Hope about the first OLPC High School Student Chapter, 1 to 1 Laptop Immersion with Tablet PCs, and EduBloggerCon 2008 Student Reflections [ 50:20 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3107)
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the Teachers Teaching Teachers webcast “Revisiting VoiceThread” from July 23rd today on my commute to and from work. Among the nuggets of good advice shared in the session about helping students effectively use VoiceThread were the following basic but powerful recommendations: Rather than start teachers and students at the “invention”
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If you have not recently created a spreadsheet in Google Documents and used the free option to create a form, you should give it a try. I still subscribe to Surveymonkey and use it for some web surveys, but increasingly I find myself using Google Documents for web forms. Why? It is free so when
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Preview release of Flickr 3.1 Uploadr This Uploadr supports both video and photo files for the first time. Worked great for me this evening with MP4 files. (tags: flickr technology photography video webvideo multimedia)
Around ten years ago when I first heard Alan November speak at the TCEA conference in Austin, I heard him differentiate between types of classroom technology use. Initially, virtually all teachers use technologies in “accommodating” ways which replicate existing tasks but may make them more efficient thanks to technology. Eventually, he said (as I recall)
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The Lyceum Project Lyceum is a multi-blog derivative of WordPress, suitable for installations with 2 or 2,000,000 blogs! (tags: wordpress blogging opensource lyceum blog BlogTools) Drupal contributed modules Contributed (contrib) modules are plugins for Drupal that extend, build or enhance Drupal core functionality. (tags: drupal contentmanagement cms opensource) WordPress Automatic Upgrade 1.2 Release (tags: wordpress
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What a relief! For the past few months I’ve been running WordPress 2.5 on three of the four WordPress blogs my family and I currently use (Learning Signs, Eyes Right and Talking Science) but I’ve held off upgrading my main Speed of Creativity blog because I’ve been burned before with WordPress upgrades. They SHOULD go
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I received a question via email from Tammy Parks in Howe, Oklahoma, recently, who just returned from BLC08 eager to setup a team blog for teachers at her school. Her question is: Our district would like to set-up a teacher blog site for each teacher to post a daily classroom summary. Initially, we would like
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NECC 2008 was a fantastic experience in San Antonio this year, but the road trip down to San Antonio and back to Oklahoma (for me) with Kansans Kevin Honeycutt, Michelle Honeycutt, Ginger Lumen, Charlie Mahoney, and Dean Mantz was one of the top highlights of the week. On the way down we engaged in some
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Nortel Asks: Are You Feeling Hyperconnected? | Reuters Great article about Nortel’s study and IDC White Paper on people who are hyperconnected in our society (hat tip Clarence Fisher and Darren Kuropatwa in their BLC 08 preso) (tags: digitalculture collaboration DigitalDishonesty digitalnatives technology) YouTube – Inspiration: Nokia – The Fourth Screen Video ad (2 min
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I saw the Nokia video advertisement “The Fourth Screen” yesterday for the first time when I watched Chris Abani’s TED Talk “Telling stories of our shared humanity” on my iPhone at lunch. The ad plays at the end of the TED talk. Here is the 2 minute and 22 second ad by itself on YouTube:
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