Renee Hall is a middle school teacher in Hugo, Oklahoma, and had the wonderful opportunity last week to witness the inauguration of President Barack Obama in Washington D.C. Renee participated in our “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” workshop this week in Oklahoma City, and created the video “A Day to Remember” with her own photographs from the
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These are my notes from Drew Edmondson’s closing presentation during the OU K-20 Center’s MidWinter Conference in Norman, Oklahoma, on 29 January 2009. MY REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The conference Ning is http://k20center.ning.com, and is open to anyone. Drew Edmondson is the current Oklahoma Attorney General OETT was the brainchild of Drew Edmondson -
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These are my notes from Dr. Scott McLeod’s follow up session during the OU K-20 Center’s MidWinter Conference in Norman, Oklahoma, on 29 January 2009. MY REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The conference Ning is http://k20center.ning.com, and is open to anyone. I got to this session late, and did audio record the latter part. 1st
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These are my notes from the Oklahoma Lt Governor Jari Askins’ comments at the luncheon during the OU K-20 Center’s MidWinter Conference in Norman, Oklahoma, on 29 January 2009. MY REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The conference Ning is http://k20center.ning.com, and is open to anyone. I videotaped the first 8.5 minutes of Lt Governor Askins’
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These are my notes from Dr. Scott McLeod’s keynote at the OU K-20 Center’s MidWinter Conference in Norman, Oklahoma, on 29 January 2009. MY REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The conference Ning is http://k20center.ning.com, and is open to anyone. All presentation content and resources from Scott’s keynote are on: scottmcleod.net/oklahoma Transitioning Oklahoma Schools… started with
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These are my notes from the presentation “International Education Partnerships: The Need for a Global Perspective” at the OU K-20 Center’s MidWinter Conference in Norman, Oklahoma, on 29 January 2009. MY REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The conference Ning is http://k20center.ning.com, and is open to anyone. How do we broaden students’ perspectives so they are
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Based on conversations during tonight’s “Teachers Teaching Teachers” webcast, I posted “EduCon 2.1 Lessons for NECC?” on ISTEconnects. Please share your thoughts! Technorati Tags: #necc09, necc, necc2009, educon, educon21, technology, education, conference
“The key to getting in a creative state is to avoid interruptions.” So says John Clese in this wonderful, ten minute video from the recent World Creativity Forum in Belgium. My own experiences also validate this statement. My wife heard this excerpt of the video tonight as I was playing it on my laptop and
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These are my notes from “Teachers Teaching Teachers” on EdTechTalk Live this evening, discussing the recent EduCon 2.1 conference in Philadelphia. There were some problems with Skype and delays in the connection tonight, but I learned a great deal none-the-less from the participants. Thanks to Paul Allison for his tweet earlier in the night which
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It is important for students to be enthusiastic about learning. Motivation can be tied to many things, and one of the most important elements is background knowledge or schema. For the past several months, my five year old has enthusiastically continued developing her emerging numeracy and reading skills using the weather application on my iPhone.
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I just posted “TAKE A TRAIN TO NECC 2009!” on the ISTEconnects blog. Could this be our first opportunity to realize the dream of the Storychaser’s Peace Train? Technorati Tags: necc09#, necc09, necc2009, iste, train, travel, storychaser, storychasers, peacetrain, peace
Do you use content filtering on your home network? (This free PollEverywhere survey will permit 30 people to vote on this question.) Create your own sms poll at Poll Everywhere I’ve written in the past about how draconian the content filters are in most of our Oklahoma public schools relative to countries with fewer legal
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As a student of history, I suspect Dick Cheney may be regarded by historians in years to come as an enemy of self-determination, human rights, and long-term political stability internationally on a comparable scale to John Foster Dulles. I say “long-term political stability” because while short-term political stability can (at times) be realized by political
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Wow. I have been a big fan of QuickTime VR panoramas for years, but after viewing this image of the inauguration scene in Washington D.C. this past week by David Bergman, I’ve just become an immediate cheerleader for Gigapan. According to David’s description on the Gigapan website: I made this Gigapan image from the north
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Last night I logged into Feedburner and heeded the site’s recommendation to “update” my account by merging it to use the standard Google authentication scheme. I probably should have done more background reading first. Back in September, Alex Chitu described some of the problems others have had with the Google-Feedburner marriage. This evening I glanced
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I’ve just shared the post “Colorado students blog inauguration experiences” on the ISTEconnects blog, which includes some background about the fantastic “When History Happens” project affiliated with the larger “Teaching with Primary Sources – Colorado” initiative. The U.S. Library of Congress is a partner in this collaboration. I’m thrilled this initiative has started in Oklahoma
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This podcast is a bit of an ecclectic mix of ideas, song snippets, and educational project ideas. Foundationally, these relate to the idea that we’re going to have an enduring need to help younger students as well as older learners use digital tools in powerful, appropriate, and constructive ways. Whether we use the words citizen
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Podcast299: Dreaming of the Storychaser's Peace Train [ 21:22 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2757)The iReporters were out in mass yesterday, and the geo-tagged map of their submissions to CNN looks quite different than it did right before inauguration day. Before: After: I love these types of mashups involving storychasing (citizen journalism and digital storytelling) with geographic maps. Geotagged content offers great opportunities for exploratory learning. Technorati Tags: cnn,
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009, will be a historic day in the history of my nation. Although we have our share of shortcomings and faults, the United States of America continues to provide a good example for the world in periodically demonstrating the capability of a large and powerful nation to peacefully transfer power from one
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I’ve shared two new posts on the ISTEconnects blog this evening: Ustream on your iPhone Join ISTE on Facebook Please note I also posted a new forum topic on the ISTE Facebook site, titled “ISTEconnects Guest Blog Posts Wanted.” Remember you can also follow ISTEconnects on Twitter. We’re using the free WordPress plug-in “Twitter Tools”
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