Archive for March, 2009:


Some recent notable pics and reflections

I love to take photos. My iPhone is the best digital camera I’ve ever owned, because it is almost ALWAYS with me. Here are a few recent photos I’ve snapped which have seemed notable for different reasons. These are all posted to my Flickr account. I found this juxtaposition of the high-tech digital and the

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Free image editing options and student voices on edtech

I posted twice on the NECC 2009 ISTEconnects blog today: Free image editing options Student Voices about technology and creating the future Don’t miss either of the videos discussed in the latter post, “Learning to Change, Changing to Learn – Kid’s Tech.” …and… “No Future Left Behind.” Hat tip to Tammy Stephens for the first

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Podcast304: The Landscape of 21st Century Learning: Personalised and Differentiated (learning@school09 keynote)

This podcast is an audio recording of my keynote address on February 27, 2009, in Rotorua, New Zealand, for the Learning@School 2009 Conference. I also included some reflections I recorded on stage just prior to the keynote. The official conference presentation description of this session was: Personalised, differentiated learning defines exemplary education in the 21st

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A Passion for making learning fun, Memories of Growing Up Poor, Coming to Oklahoma in a Covered Wagon, One Room Schoolhouses

We wrapped up another great Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital storytelling workshop today in Oklahoma City, with 22 more Oklahoma educators completing the 2.5 day workshop and creating their own short digital stories. Here were some of my favorites from our “show and tell” time today at the end of the workshop. Ranee Butler did a

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Creativity and Netbooks

As you can probably tell from my recent posts, I’ve got netbooks as well as creativity on my mind quite a bit these days. I shared two new posts this evening on ISTEconnects: Creativity in our schools A netbook for every student? I used both the quotations I shared from Christensen, Horn & Johnson as

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Netbooks prove cloud computing is a reality

Here’s my favorite quotation from Clive Thompson’s February 2009 article for Wired magazine, “The Netbook Effect: How Cheap Little Laptops Hit the Big Time.” Netbooks prove that the “cloud” is no longer just hype. It is now reasonable to design computers that outsource the difficult work somewhere else. The cloud tail is wagging the hardware

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Gabcast phone recording no longer free

Well this is a bummer, but perhaps not entirely unexpected. As of Sunday, March 1, 2009, Gabcast is NO LONGER offering free, phone-based audio recording to mp3 format. According to the Gabcast blog, the following changes are now in effect: No distinction among channel types (Free, Pro, Premium). There will only be one kind of

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Doodle 4 Google: Dream, Design, Win

Google is looking for some creative student designers in their “Doodle 4 Google” contest: Welcome to Doodle 4 Google, a competition where we invite K-12 students to play around with our homepage logo and see what new designs they come up with. This year we’re inviting U.S. kids to join in the doodling fun, around

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SlideCast: The Landscape of 21st Century Learning: Personalised and Differentiated

I shared “The Landscape of 21st Century Learning: Personalised and Differentiated” as the closing keynote at the Learning@School 2009 conference in Rotorua, New Zealand, last Friday. Today I finished adding all the referenced links to my presentation wiki page, and also added and synchronized the recorded audio from the presentation to SlideShare. The Landscape of

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