This evening I published a wonderful presentation by 5th and 6th grade Kansas teachers Linley Voboril, Tamara Padfield, and Kimberly Herron from the 2009 PodStock conference. I rather thoughtlessly placed my audio recorder during this session right next to the projector fan, so there was a LOT of background noise in the original recording. During
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This podcast is a recorded presentation from the Podstock 2009 conference on May 1 in Wichita, Kansas, by some of the most innovative elementary teachers you could ever hope to meet. Linley Voboril, Tamara Padfield, and Kimberly Herron presented this session titled, Get Out of Your FUNK, Cut the JIVE! Make Your Classroom Come Alive!!!
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Today at THE NEW RENAISSANCE: A Revolution of Creativity and Learning conference in Edmond, Oklahoma, we used a custom mobile website (created with MobilAP for free, thanks to the assistance of great folks from Apple, UCO and Creative Oklahoma) to solicit participant answers to questions and prompts throughout the day. The majority of attendees at
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These are my notes from the first half of the second session session, “Thinking About Learning & Learning About Thinking: Implications for Creative Human Activity by ” by Dennis Cheek at the THE NEW RENAISSANCE: A Revolution of Creativity and Learning conference. The mobile website for this conference (which is optimized for the iPhone /
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These are my notes from the opening session, “The Renaissance: Leonardo daVinci & the Creative Mind” by Bulent Atalay at the THE NEW RENAISSANCE: A Revolution of Creativity and Learning conference. The mobile website for this conference (which is optimized for the iPhone / iPod Touch and other mobile devices) was created using the open
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Yesterday afternoon and evening our Storychasers executive board had a retreat in one of the classrooms of the downtown Oklahoma City Metro Library. When logging onto their free wifi network, I read the fine print of their use agreement: Under “Limitations and Disclaimers,” the website informs patrons: Printers are not directly accessible via the wireless
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Saturday we had a GREAT initial, synchronous event for the 2009 K-12 Online Conference, thanks to the hard work of our 2009 Live Events Committee and the great folks at EdTechTalk. My six year old daughter had her birthday party at the Oklahoma City Zoo early that afternoon, so I missed the first half of
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One of my favorite themes to share with educators and administrators in my presentations about learning and technology involves hyperlinked writing. In my workshop about sharing student work online at the 21st Century Learning @ Hong Kong conference two weeks ago, I asked audience members to repeat the following phrase after me: Hyperlinked writing is
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Posted on September 14, 2009, “Did You Know 4.0″ already has about 300,000 YouTube views and you can bet it’s headed for viral status as were its predecessors. The video was put together in advance of the third annual Media Convergence Conference in New York City, 20-21 October, 2009. Unlike its predecessors, the focus of
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Early this morning (thanks in part to the delayed effects of jet lag) I finished reading Shouhua Qi’s outstanding book, “Bridging the Pacific: Searching for Cross-Cultural Understanding Between the United States and China.” Dr. Qi is currently a professor of English at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. I shared a few ideas I gleaned
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Steve Jurvetson, in his ForaTV video presentation, “The User-Generated, Real-Time Web,” says (among other things) that we’re going to see Skype spin off from eBay in the next few months (his speech was in June) and create standalone, wifi-based phones which have been a part of the founding vision of Skype since the beginning but
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Spam is a rampant problem not only with email, but increasingly with Twitter and other social networking sites and platforms including Ning. In the case of our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices learning community (built with Ning) our administrative team moderates new members to try and insure they are educators interested in digital storytelling and oral history,
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I’m continuing to help prepare for next week’s educational symposium “NEW RENAISSANCE: A Revolution of Creativity and Learning” to be held at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond on September 30th. Peter Donaldson is our main speaker and event consultant, and will be role-playing Leonardo da Vinci the entire day. To create atmosphere and
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I had an interaction with a parent today which was simultaneously sad, eye opening, and challenging. Essentially, the parent said they wanted an interactive white board (IWB) and an audience response / electronic response system in their child’s classroom, so their child and peers would be more engaged in learning and enjoy their time in
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Full disclosure: I spoke with a gWhiz representative today on the phone to obtain some of the info contained in this post. I am not affiliated with gWhiz and have not received anything (software / money / promises etc) from them. This is an unsolicited evaluation post of gWhiz MLA. Back in February 2009, I
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Planning for the 2009 K-12 Online Conference has continued steadily throughout this summer and early fall. I’m pleased join others in announcing, thanks to the hard work of the K12Online09 Live Events Committee, the first official LIVE event of the 2009 conference! More details are available on the K12Online09 LAN Party Wiki. Here’s a repost
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This is a really geeky issue (which I thankfully don’t encounter much) and I’m hoping someone can readily assist. I’m configuring the “Simple Video Embedder” plugin for a new WordPress blog, and am running into trouble with the setup instructions which require modification of several WordPress theme files in the WordPress “loop.” The instructions indicate
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This week in the “digital dialog” class I’m leading for local parents and grandparents here in Edmond, Oklahoma, we’re going to watch and discuss the 2007 PBS Frontline special “Growing Up Online.” The entire program remains online to watch for free, and provides a good overview of many digital issues which continue to confront our
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The popular online destination for kids, Webkinz, drives continued revenue by granting Webkinz pet purchasers a limited access license to the online Webkinz world. My son received the following in-world message in Webkinz recently: Account Renewal Reminder: 30 days: This note is just a reminder that your account is set to expire in 30 days
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Update 1/24/2012: MobileAP is now available on github.com/akinspe/mobilAP. Last week in Hong Kong, I virtually applauded high school students from Hong Kong International School who built an iPhone/iTouch compatible website to support the 21st Century Learning at Hong Kong conference in just two weeks, using the free tool jQTouch. The student team blogged about this on
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