One of the highlights of my day yesterday in Rotorua, New Zealand, was visiting Te Puia and seeing the mud pools as well as geyser basin. This was an introductory “welcome” video I recorded in the morning from my hotel balcony, overlooking part of the crater lake of Rotorua. I am now COMPLETELY sold on
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This podcast includes a series of three interviews from the Learning@School 2009 conference in Rotorua, New Zealand. The first is an interview with Dean McDonnell, a school principal near Matamata. One of the families whose children attend at Dean’s school own the farm where Hobbiton was built for the film trilogy The Lord of the
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Podcast303: Transforming Pedagogy in NZ Schools, Duck Hunting in Hobbiton, the Easy Talk Microphone, and Kid Witness News [ 22:10 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (5762)
If you’re fortunate to live in a city or town with free Wifi available at coffeeshops, restaurants, the public library, or elsewhere, count yourself lucky. I haven’t found any free WiFi in New Zealand. This menu of restaurant Wifi pricing in Rotorua on the North Island is fairly representative of what I’ve seen other places,
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These are my notes from the unconference time at Learning@School 09 Different models are suggested for inquiry units. These are stages or steps for one model discussed by a teacher at our table: immersion (provocation, exploration phase, building relevance) questioning plan gather and sort create and share take action At one school, they are doing
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These are my notes from Erin Freeman and Heath Sawyer’s presentation “Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools” at Learning@School 09 in Rotorua, New Zealand today. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. ERIN IS TEACHING AT AN AMAZINGLY INNOVATIVE SCHOOL WHICH PERMITS STUDENTS TO BRING THEIR OWN LAPTOPS TO SCHOOL. THEY HAVE FIVE CLASSROOMS
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These are my notes from Allanah King‘s presentation “Creating and Managing Digital Portfolios Using Adobe Acrobat” at Learning@School 09 today in Rotorua, New Zealand. Allanah on Twitter: http://twitter.com/AllanahK. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. 4 options to sabotage Wes’ keynote tomorrow – when you hear the terms “pedagogy” or “digital native” get up
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These are my notes from Pam Hook’s Learning@School 09 day 2 keynote, “teaching & learning: What is happening in the ampersand.” MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Pam’s website is: www.hooked-on-thinking.com In preparation for this presentation, we asked for and collected a diverse and rather dodgy collection – now showing a video -
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This morning following the opening session at theLearning@School 09 conference in Rotorua, New Zealand, I learned about the New Zealand Internet Blackout campaign from Dave Winter, ICT manager at Southwell School in Hamilton. According to the website: The New Zealand Internet Blackout protests against the Guilt Upon Accusation law ‘Section 92A’ that calls for internet
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These are my notes from Jamie McKenzie’s Learning@School 09 early bird session, “Getting Attention in the Laptop Classroom.” MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. NOTE THE FOLLOWING: I AM SHARING THESE IDEAS WITH MY OWN REFLECTIONS AND CRITIQUES UNDER FAIR USE PROVISIONS OF U.S. COPYRIGHT LAW. OF COURSE THIS IS AN INTERESTING QUESTION
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Today was another marvelous day in New Zealand. Thanks to the generosity and kindness of friends, I had an opportunity to realize a dream: I saw and stood near the actual landscape setting for “Edoras” in the film trilogy “The Lord of the Rings.” Mount Sunday is located near Mt Potts Sheep Station in the
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If you are a U.S. educator seeking additional resources to better utilize digital technologies in support of classroom learning, the money allocated by the U.S. Congress for educational technology and professional development via the Enhancing Education Through Technology (Ed-Tech) State Program – EETT is an important political topic to follow. The ISTEconnects post, “U.S. Educational
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After around a 12 hour flight from Los Angeles, I arrived safely in Auckland, New Zealand, on Monday morning (today) around 6 am. My flight from Auckland to Christchurch was uneventful, and I spent most of the day exploring Christchurch with my host mum (AFS 1987) Shirley. I recorded a two minute Qik video (with
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I recorded a short archived webcast via Qik this afternoon in the DFW airport enroute to the 2009 Learning at School conference in Rotorua, New Zealand. This was my first Qik video to record of myself, by myself, so I apologize that the camera angle was not well centered. (I’ll do better next time!) Qik
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In anticipation of my 24+ hour travel experience to New Zealand this weekend for the 2009 Learning at School conference, I have been searching for a mobile battery charger for my iPhone. Our local Apple Store in Oklahoma City had two different models from Kensington for sale, but both used lithium ion rechargeable batteries and
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Last week at our Oklahoma Technology Association‘s annual conference, high school journalism teacher Tammy Parks shared a presentation titled “Student-Created Virtual Field Trips: Howe Public Schools Live and On Location!” In the presentation, Tammy showed how one of her students has been using Skype to conduct interviews over video with national school organization presidents around
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This evening following the weekly Seedlings’ webcast on EdTechTalk, Bob Sprankle created the group “Book Talk: Little Brother by Cory Doctorow” on the Seedlings Ning. If you’re not familiar with the ideas and writing of Cory Doctorow, have never read one of his freely downloadable eBooks, or have not participated in a virtual online book
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The NASA/JPL-inspired video “Barriers to Innovation and Inclusion” provides an excellent contextual opportunity to discuss big issues which plague many organizations and bureaucracies: Are middle and upper level managers stifling creativity and “shooting the messenger” who seeks to be a catalyst for new ideas and innovative approaches, or do these individuals embrace and support the
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This presentation, Copyright for Educators, was shared at the ITSC 2009 Conference in Portland, Oregon, on February 16, 2009, by Wesley Fryer. This presentation is also available via Slideshare as a synchronized multimedia slide presentation also. (See the podcast shownotes for the link and other referenced resources.) The session description was: Teachers, principals, and students
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Podcast302: Copyright for Educators (ITSC 2009 Portland) [ 58:30 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (4904)
I’ve used the SlideShare “synchronization tool” to sync up the recorded audio from my ITSC 2009 session “Copyright for Educators” with my slides. Copyright for Educators View more presentations from wfryer. (tags: librarian library) Referenced links for this session are available on my presentation wiki page. This is the first SlideShare I’ve synchronized like this
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These are my notes from Marco Torres‘ keynote at ITSC 2009 “Rethinking It.” I AM RECORDING THIS SESSION, AND MARCO HAS GIVEN ME PERMISSION TO SHARE SOME EXCERPTS/CLIPS FROM IT. “The Community Inspiration Studio” is the name of Marco’s classroom – In addition to being an educator Marco is an artist, photographer, and filmmaker -
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