I’m looking forward to teaching and leading a week long fine arts camp starting Monday here in Edmond, Oklahoma, on stopmotion film making. I’m teaching this as a three hour class, Monday through Friday, at the Edmond Fine Arts Institute. Last summer I taught this workshop at our church’s fine arts camp, but it was
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We had a fun workshop yesterday in Gadsden, Alabama, and the technology support team for the district was WONDERFUL in unblocking all the websites we needed to use to learn about digital audio recording and sharing, as well as educational apps for the iPod Touch and subscribing to free educational podcasts in the iTunes Store.
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This podcast is a collection of recorded audio from a workshop shared with teachers in Gadsden City Schools, Alabama, on June 10, 2009. In the workshop, teachers learned how to use a Sony UX-70 mp3 digital audio recorder to record audio in an oral history interview. Teachers also learned how to use free Audacity software
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Podcast320: Lessons Learned Recording, Editing, and Publishing Digital Audio [ 1:05:30 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2765)These are notes relating to the Texas Education Agency’s Target Tech in Texas (T3) Collaborative Grant. This information was shared over TETN (The Texas Education Telecommunications Network) in May 2009, and a PDF file of that presentation is available. MY RELATED THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. All T3 grant application documents are available
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This is great– Tim Holt is spearheading a Podstock Southwest conference to be held August 6-7, 2009, in El Paso, Texas. Visit Podstock Southwest The “first PodStock” (yes, I’m proud to say ‘I was there!’) was held in Wichita, Kansas, on May 1-2, 2009. I’m not entirely sure if I’ll be able to attend PodstockSW
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My 8 year old daughter recently googled something like “cool games for girls” and came across the website GirlsGoGames.com. We had a discussion this morning about the site and this is something we need to talk about more at length, because of all the issues it raises. I asked Sarah to blog about this, but
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I titled our family learning blog “Learning Signs” because signs often reflect opportunities for growth and change. This “sign” seemed to suggest it was time to restart my computer. Tabbed browsing is great, but even with browser tabs Internet content can get overwhelming at times. Technorati Tags: tab, tabbed, browsing, browser
In this powerful speech shared by U.S. first lady Michelle Obama in the UK in April 2009, students in the audience are encouraged to control their own destinies through education. Michelle exhorts students to use their talents to “create the world as it should be.” Her words are moving and powerful, and her personal story
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Oklahoma needs to join the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. The “21st Century Skill Incentive Fund Act,” introduced into the US Congress last month, may help. The act: …aims to provide matching federal funds to states that pair strong core courses with 21st century skills such as creativity, innovation, critical thinking and financial, economic, business
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Thanks to both Eric Langhorst and Beth Still for tweeting the link to this amazing footage from Vortex2 of the tornado this past week in Wyoming. The most remarkable part of this video for me was this section which showed a “tornado within a tornado.” I remember many years ago talking about tornados with my
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Methamphetamine addiction is a plague. Back in January, I participated in the “Crystal Darkness” campaign here in Oklahoma to raise awareness about the scourge of meth as well as other problems we face in our communities with substance abuse. The Meth Project has a series of hard-hitting public service announcement (PSA) videos which draw attention
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Yesterday our family legally obtained four of the five books on our school’s official sixth grade summer reading list for 99¢, courtesy of Project Gutenberg, the free Amazon Kindle application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and the Amazon Kindle store. I am both amazed and thrilled that our access to mobile, digital devices as
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I snapped these photographs in the media center at U.S. Grant High School in Oklahoma City yesterday. My thought was: Here is the technology which still predominates in our classrooms in 2009! Will all our schools be implementing 1:1 learning initiatives within 5 years? Within 10 years? Will these overhead projectors still be in use
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The medical missionaries to Niger whose presentation I recorded and webcasted on Sunday (with permission, of course) asked yesterday to have the Ustream video recordings of their presentation taken offline. They reviewed the recordings and were concerned that some of the things they said might be perceived negatively by the Niger government, and they didn’t
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We had a great turnout for the Oklahoma City Public School’s annual “Tech Day” conference, held at US Grant High School in southern OKC today. I had fun live-blogging Tammy Worcester’s keynote, “Beyond Copy and Paste: Building Integrated Technology Projects.” Tammy is a wonderful presenter and her message really resonated with the diverse group of
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I’m live blogging Tammy Worcester‘s keynote at Oklahoma City Public School’s Tech Day today! The title of her keynote is, “Beyond Copy and Paste: Building Integrated Technology Projects.” We’re starting NOW! Beyond Copy and Paste: Building Integrated Technology Projects Since the text inside an embedded CoveritLive archive is not accessible from an iOS device or
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This evening reading one of Chris Pirillo’s old posts, I noticed in his sidebar links for “My Profiles” he includes a link for “Blog Mentions” which includes code for a Google Blog Search for his site: http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&scoring=d&partner=wordpress&q=link:http://chris.pirillo.com/ I’m not lacking digital reading material these days, thanks in large part to the wonderful educational bloggers to
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Last week Sherri Pankhurst from Cordell Public Schools was the lead facilitator for a Celebrate Oklahoma Voices workshop in Stratford, Oklahoma. These are some of the best videos created during the 2.5 day workshop by Stratford educators which Sherri has “featured” this week on our COV learning community. As a lover of western heritage and
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This podcast is a recording of Dean Mantz and Brian Richter’s presentation on May 2, 2009, at the PodStock 2009 conference titled, “Integrating Podcasting into the Classroom Using Moodle.” The session description was: How you use podcasting in the classroom-Integrating them into the class using moodle. This will include a quick lesson on how to
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Podcast319: Integrating Podcasting into the Classroom Using Moodle by Dean Mantz and Brian Richter (PodStock2009) [ 46:20 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (4069)
