Over the holiday break I spent more hours than I care to remember sorting out duplicate Mac OS X Address Book entries, thanks in large part to bad past experiences I’ve had with services including Plaxo. In addition to cleaning and editing my address book, I’ve been reinstalling all my applications onto my Macbook laptop
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I love creating and editing webpages on wikis. Having spent a fair bit of time in the past, web 1.0 world creating sites in Dreamweaver, Frontpage (yes, I know, it was painful but necessary) and an old favorite, Claris Homepage, I REALLY appreciate the ease-of-use and automatic navigational features of Google Sites as well as
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In less than two weeks, we’ll celebrate the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday in all 49 states of the United States, except Arizona. This tends to be a very common professional development day for U.S. teachers, I’ve found, and one for which I generally receive multiple presentation requests. Due to a last minute schedule
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I had a moment of significant cognitive dissonance this morning driving in to work, listening to the radio. photo credit: rakkasan69 This past Friday morning, for THREE HOURS, I was a minor guest on the Winnipeg, Manitoba radio station CJOB with Darren Kuropatwa, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, Dean Shareski, and Darren’s former student Mark Rabena. The complete
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One of our “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” digital storytelling project participants asked a good question today on our learning community forum: Does anyone have any suggestions for websites to safely download pictures off the internet? This was my answer. Julie: Great question. Flickr Creative Commons is one of the best and one we recommend in our
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Twits beware. Twitter phishers and spammers are out on the prowl, and more than a few unsuspecting educators have fallen prey to their clever ruses and hacks in the last two days. The posts on the official Twitter blog “Gone Phishing” from Saturday and “Monday Morning Madness” from today provide more insights. Even Barack Obama’s
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Like a large number of North American households with Internet access and elementary age children this holiday season, our home was the scene of many hours logged on both Club Penguin and Webkinz the past couple weeks. After Christmas, we made a momentous purchase for our five year old: A new Webkinz Penguin she’s named
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A few weeks before Christmas, I watched and blogged Dr. Z’s (Leigh Zeitz) webinar for ISTE on web 2.0 tools. Dr. Z mentioned Skype as a videoconferencing tool in the classroom, which can be used to bring in virtual guest speakers. I asked him during the webinar if he knew of any online directories for
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This past holiday I’ve undertaken the formidable but necessary tasks of backing up all my laptop hard drive documents, archiving old computer files I’ve continued to keep on my laptop (even though there is a 0.00001% chance I’ll ever actually need those files) as well as cleaning up closets and storage cabinets around our house
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This podcast features a recording of the January 2, 2009, live morning radio show interview in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on CJOB|68 with Darren Kuropatwa, minus the news and advertisement breaks. The conversation focused on Darren’s utilization of scribe posts by his Calculus and Pre-Calculus students at Daniel McIntyre Academy in Winnipeg, the imporance of numeracy as
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Podcast298: An Interview on Manitoba Morning Radio with Darren Kuropatwa about Numeracy, Literacy, Student Summary Blogging, Digital Learning and the K-12 Online Conference [ 1:49:20 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2994)This morning Darren Kuropatwa was on the radio for three hours with Richard Cloutier in Winnipeg, Manitoba on CJOB|68. I am about to publish the audio recording of this interview as a podcast, but before I do I want to share a few of the paraphrased quotations I jotted down today during the radio show.
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Several days ago I tweeted: does anyone else wonder if sites like http://tweetree.com are just harvesting userids and passwords? We should be wary of sites like this My sentiment for that tweet is confirmed by Cliff Ravenscraft’s post “Warning Twitter Users! Do Not Use Twply.com!” from today. Cliff writes that when users login to Twply:
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Thanks to Karen Chichester for pointing me to Brian Solis‘ post “The Conversation Prism” categorizing different web 2.0 tools by function. Brian’s 22 categories include: Social Bookmarks Comment and Reputation Crowdsourced Content Blog Platforms Blogs/Conversations Blog Communities Micromedia Lifestreams Specific to Twitter SMS/Voice Social Networks Niche Networks Customers Service Networks Location Video Video Aggregation Documents
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Please join Darren Kuropatwa along with the conveners of the K-12 Online Conference live today on Manitoba radio station CJOB 68, streamed live over the web, discussing among other things: …education in the 21st Century, numeracy, the impact of rapid technological change on teaching and learning, and the K12 Online Conference. Click the grey “listen
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What is the ideal mobile application for college students armed with iPhones, wanting information related to THEIR college life, courses and interests? According to a telecommunications company like AT&T, the answer may be something similar to iStanford, an application whose development received $10,000 from AT&T as the winner of the “Big Mobile on Campus” contest
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Since Google announced its new web browser Chrome last fall, designed from the ground up to be faster with today’s modern web applications (webapps) I admit I’ve been a little envious of Windows users. You see, to date Chrome has only been available for Windows users. I am a cross-platform computer user, and do have
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For several months now, my five year old has been telling everyone who asks about her future career path that she wants to be a paleontologist and study dinosaurs. (Certainly not unusual for a child her age!) As we considered ways to ring in the new year as a family, given her interest in dinosaurs
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