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Archive for February, 2009:
Creating Custom iPhone and iPod Touch Flashcards with gFlash and Google Documents
While I’m a vocal proponent of learning opportunities which focus on higher order thinking, I also readily acknowledge that in some contexts rote memorization is still important and needed. Multiplication facts are a case in point. If students do not set to memory all their multiplication facts during their late elementary years, virtually all higher
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Internet safety and our need to connect with teens
It is amazing to me how many students and others continue to view and comment on Rachel’s VoiceThread digital story, “Getting a new haircut,” which she created when she was 3 years old. Most of the comments which are left are very positive. Lately, many of the comments seem to be coming from students possibly
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Larry Lessig on the idiocy of current US copyright law
I love IPTV. I don’t love television. The main reasons I dislike television are: Most television programs are filled with potentially manipulative ads which sow the seeds of consumer discontent, aspiring to motivate audience members to go spend money they either don’t have on products they really don’t need, or money which would be better
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Podcast301: How to Create a Great PowerPoint Without Breaking the Law: Take 2.0 by Alvin Trusty
This presentation was shared by Dr. Alvin Trusty at eTechOhio 2009 on February 2, 2009, in Columbus. The official session description was: This is a followup to last year’s presentation of this topic. Learn how to create an engaging presentation using free resources and established techniques in visual design. How much does “fair use” protect
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Podcast301: How to Create a Great PowerPoint Without Breaking the Law: Take 2.0 by Alvin Trusty [ 52:30 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (4891)President Obama: Please make REAL education transformation your goal
We do not merely need education “reform” in our nation, we need educational TRANSFORMATION. The campaign “Will We Really” seeks to motivate folks like you and me to contact our elected representatives so they will commit to four things related to educational transformation: Every child deserves a 21st Century education. Every community deserves an equal
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iPhone iTalk Application: A Great Event Recorder
This evening our son bridged up from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts and earned his Arrow of Light Award. Before the ceremony began, however, I realized it might be wonderful to audio-record the event to share it with grandparents as well as archive it for our own enjoyment later. The problem was I had forgotten
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Comparing Broadband USB Options for Laptops
Podcast300: Educator Voices from the eTechOhio 2009 Conference
This podcast includes a series of six interviews I recorded at the eTechOhio 2009 conference in Columbus on February 2, 2009. The episode begins with Gabe Ross, a student at Ohio State University studying video production and part of the documentary film crew at the eTechOhio 2009 conference. Second, Kieli Fergusen of the National Underground
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How to Create a Great PowerPoint Without Breaking the Law: Take 2.0 by Alvin Trusty
These are my notes from How to Create a Great PowerPoint Without Breaking the Law: Take 2.0 by Alvin Trusty at the eTechOhio 2009 conference on Feb 2nd. MY REFLECTIONS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Alvin is at The University of Findlay (trusty [at] findlay [dot] edu) The number of sites in my presentation
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Cellphones in the classroom? Yes way! by Ryan Collins
These are my notes from the presentation “Cellphones in the classroom? Yes way!” by Ryan Collins at the eTechOhio 2009 conference on Feb 2nd. MY REFLECTIONS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Presentation notes are available on http://ryancollins.org/wp/etechohio09/. I AM RECORDING RYAN’S SESSION AND MAY PODCAST IT, BUT HE IS RECORDING IT AND IS DEFINITELY
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An iPod Touch in Every Classroom by Kelly Croy
These are my notes from “An iPod Touch in Every Classroom: Even More Innovative Techniques for Using iPods to Reach Students” by Kelly Croy at the eTechOhio 2009 conference on Feb 2nd. MY REFLECTIONS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The presenter, Kelly Croy, is an Apple Distinguished Educator and has a personal website: http://mrcroy.com
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eTechOhio, School Reform Ideas and Smaller PDF Files
I’ve been making a few last-minute tweaks for my keynote tomorrow at eTechOhio 2009, titled “Reinventing Education for the 21st Century (Designing School 2.0).” Today enroute to Columbus I read more of Clayton Christensen’s book “Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns” and watched (in the Chicago Midway airport) the
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