Archive for March, 2009:


Podcast310: All a Twitter about Twitter: Micro-Blogging as a Professional Networking Tool by Beth Knittle (MASSCUE 2008)

Published by in distributed-learning, podcasts, socialnetworking, web 2.0, workshops on March 31st, 2009

This podcast is a recording of a presentation shared by Beth Knittle titled, “All a Twitter about Twitter: Micro-Blogging as a Professional Networking Tool.” Beth shared this presentation on November 19, 2008, at the MASSCUE 2008 conference in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. I helped out a little bit sharing some ideas too during the session. The official

(Read More…)

Podcast310: All a Twitter about Twitter: Micro-Blogging as a Professional Networking Tool by Beth Knittle (MASSCUE 2008) [ 1:03:05 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3950)
1 Comment »

Join the live conversation today: Opportunities and Challenges for Web 2.0 in Schools

Published by in edtech, leadership, schoolreform, web 2.0 on March 31st, 2009

If your schedule today permits, I invite you join educators worldwide in a free webinar sponsored by Technology and Learning and Lightspeed Systems, titled “Opportunities and Challenges for Web 2.0 in Schools.” Presenters/panelists for the webinar include Alan November, Ellen Bialo, Jay Sivin-Kachala and Terrell Tucker. The fun begins at 10 am PST / 1

(Read More…)

2 Comments »

Learning about password security early, individual student logins at school

Published by in edtech on March 30th, 2009

The ability to create multiple login accounts on current operating systems like Mac OS X is great. This not only allows family members to have their own “custom” desktops and bookmarks/favorites, it also permits young users to start learning about password security early. This many seem like a trivial thing, but it really isn’t. The

(Read More…)

9 Comments »

Podcast309: Google Apps – Implementation and Changing the Way We Do Business (from CoSN09)

Published by in edtech, podcasts, workshops on March 29th, 2009

This podcast is a recording of a session presented by Meghen Ehrich and Sharon Tompson, school technology support staff members from Prince George’s County Public Schools in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. This session was shared on March 10, 2009, at the CoSN 2009 conference in Austin, Texas. The official conference program description for this session was: 

(Read More…)

Podcast309: Google Apps - Implementation and Changing the Way We Do Business (from CoSN09) [ 51:50 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3858)
Comments Off

Solving a Macbook hard drive free space mystery

Published by in apple on March 29th, 2009

My wife’s MacBook has mysteriously almost run out of free hard drive space, and I wasn’t sure why. The amazing and always-knowledgable Patsy Lanclos told me at least a year ago about the free application Disk Inventory X, which permits users to visually explore the contents of a hard drive running or attached to a

(Read More…)

5 Comments »

Plan to attend PodStock May 1-2, 2009 in Wichita, Kansas!

Published by in creativity, digitalstorytelling, podcasting, web 2.0, workshops on March 29th, 2009

Check your calendar for Friday, May 1st and Saturday, May 2nd, 2009. If at all possible, please plan to join the learning and fun at the first PodStock conference to be held in Wichita, Kansas. According to the PodStock website: Podstock is a brand new conference designed to bring podcast creators and those who see

(Read More…)

Comments Off

Maine laptops for grades 7-12 now, Texas still forcing paper textbook purchases

Published by in 1:1, politics on March 28th, 2009

Two articles caught my attention today, probably because they reflect a wide gap in state perspectives on educational spending. photo credit: Wesley Fryer On March 11, 2009, the Maine Department of Education announced it is extending it’s statewide laptop initiative (The Maine Learning Initiative) to high school students. The program started in 2002 with 7th

(Read More…)

4 Comments »

What are the new literacies?

Published by in distributed-learning, literacy, web 2.0 on March 28th, 2009

After participating in Friday’s online discussion in Elluminate organized by Josie Fraser about digital literacy and 21st century skills, Dean Groom’s post from yesterday resonates with me: Why have a ‘shared drive’ when you can have a wiki? What does an email do for a group that a wiki won’t do better? We are not

(Read More…)

5 Comments »

The Thursday Folder and Worksheet Measured Learning

Published by in 1:1, assessment, digitalstorytelling, pbl, schoolreform, science on March 27th, 2009

At the February 2009 Oklahoma Technology Association’s conference, keynote speaker Will Richardson told a story about the worksheets his own students bring home from their public school each week which resonated with me. Will said he’d contemplated keeping all the papers for an entire school year in a big stack, and then photographing them to

(Read More…)

21 Comments »

Join the Digital Literacy debate – Live!

Published by in blogs, distributed-learning, literacy, web 2.0 on March 27th, 2009

Please join me and many others in the Digital Literacy debate organized by Josie Fraser: …the Digital Literacy debate… will be taking place online, in Elluminate, on Friday 27 March 2009, at 1pm GMT [THAT'S 8 AM CST] … The purpose of the debate is to try and move forward on issues surrounding Digital Literacy.

(Read More…)

1 Comment »

Easily customizing WordPress for Mobile Users

Published by in blogs, mobile on March 26th, 2009

The mobile web is huge and growing. No one creating content for the Internet today should ignore it. If you use a WordPress blog, the free WordPress Mobile 3.0 plug-in offers a seamless way to provide a customized, mobile-web friendly interface for your visitors viewing your site on an iPhone, Android-compatible phone, BlackBerry, or other

(Read More…)

Comments Off

Visually summarizing ideas with Sean Griffin

Published by in leadership, schoolreform on March 25th, 2009

This afternoon I attended the Oklahoma State Department of Education’s sponsored dropout summit. This was not only a great opportunity to experiment with UStream.tv integrated with CoverItLive, it also was a great chance to see an amazing visual artist at work. Sean Griffin (@sean_griffin on Twitter) is a Tulsa-based visual artist who specializes in helping

(Read More…)

Comments Off

Live from the OK State Superintendent’s Dropout Summit

Published by in leadership, web 2.0, workshops on March 25th, 2009

I’m attending the Oklahoma State Superintendent’s Dropout Summit this afternoon at Oklahoma Christian University. I’m experimenting with the Ustream Mobile broadcaster to provide a live video stream of the event, as well as CoverItLive. I’ve virtually “attended” events previously via CoverItLive but haven’t used it myself until today. Feel free to join in the chat

(Read More…)

4 Comments »

Twitter follower bio word clouds

Published by in web 2.0 on March 25th, 2009

Thanks to a tweet from Paul McMahon in Hong Kong I discovered Twittersheep today. The site creates a dynamic word cloud using the bios of people who follow a specific Twitter user. Here’s the current one for my followers: This word cloud not only communicates interesting things about folks with whom I share many common

(Read More…)

Comments Off

Considering how race still matters in America for dropouts and student identity

Published by in leadership, podcasting on March 23rd, 2009

Yesterday driving back to Oklahoma from a short stay in Kansas with my parents, I listened to a podcast recording of Dr. Margaret Beale Spencer’s lecture from February 23rd at the University of Virginia. The title of her lecture was, “The 1954 Brown Decision and Contemporary Education Challenges and Opportunities.” The U.Va. podcast channel is

(Read More…)

1 Comment »

Podcast308: A Long Overdue Personal and Professional Life Update (March 2009)

Published by in economics, podcasts, schoolreform, web 2.0 on March 21st, 2009

If you listened to Podcast299: Dreaming of the Storychaser’s Peace Train, you might have wondered just want sort of disruptive changes were taking place in my life (this past January) which I was only able to reference obliquely in that podcast. In this 40 minute podcast recorded in the car this past week driving up

(Read More…)

Podcast308: A Long Overdue Personal and Professional Life Update [ 41:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3112)
2 Comments »

The value of comment moderation and feedback from a social media audience

Published by in digitalstorytelling, leadership, socialnetworking, web 2.0 on March 21st, 2009

I have not made time the past several weeks to listen to and moderate new VoiceThread comments which others have left on digital stories my children and I have made on the site the past few years. Since we’re on Spring Break, my girls and I took some time to go through the VoiceThread comments

(Read More…)

2 Comments »

Why won’t Apple permit video recording on the iPhone?

Published by in apple, mobile on March 20th, 2009

It’s a simple, basic question but one whose answer eludes me. Why won’t Apple permit video recording on the iPhone? The application Cycorder, which only works on iPhones which have been jailbroken, permits iPhone video recording at up to 15 frames per second (the maximum the iPhone’s camera permits) at 384 x 228 pixel resolution.

(Read More…)

12 Comments »

Podcast307: The Challenges of Integrating Web 2.0 in Missouri Schools by Bob Martin

Published by in blogs, podcasts, socialnetworking, web 2.0 on March 19th, 2009

This podcast is a recording of Bob Martin’s presentation at the 2009 COSN Conference in Austin, Texas, on March 11th. Bob is a technology leader for MORENET, a nonprofit providing a variety of technology services (including connectivity as an ISP) for over 500 schools in the state of Missouri. MORENET is part of the University

(Read More…)

Podcast307: The Challenges of Integrating Web 2.0 in Missouri Schools by Bob Martin [ 1:03:05 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2772)
Comments Off

Reviewing Captain Underpants and other favorite books on Ustream

Published by in books, digitalstorytelling on March 18th, 2009

Elementary student Drew Danker shared an outstanding book review (4 and a half minutes long) about “Captain Underpants” and some of his other favorite books recently via Ustream.tv: Kudos to both Drew and his tech-saavy mom, Dawn! If you watch the video, please take a few minutes and leave an edifying comment for Drew! We

(Read More…)

4 Comments »
© Creative Commons License