These are my notes from Yang Huansong’s presentation, “The Research on Teaching Animation Design Art” at the 21st Century Learning @ the West Lake Expo held Oct 31 – Nov 3, 2009 at Xi Hu, China, also known as West Lake. West Lake is in the center of Hangzhou, China, which is about an hour
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Last night a group of us attending the 21st Century Learning @ the West Lake Expo in Hangzhou, China, ventured downtown following our banquet to see the beautiful fountains on West Lake. This approximately ten minute show involves water fountain displays in the lake, highlighted by colored spotlights underneath the water, synchronized with different songs
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These are my notes from a presentation about Creating an alternative gaming classification system at the 21st Century Learning @ the West Lake Expo held Oct 31 – Nov 3, 2009 at Xi Hu, China, also known as West Lake. West Lake is in the center of Hangzhou, China, which is about an hour by
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These are my notes from Jenny Lewis’ presentation “Leading, Learning, Loving It, Leading Tomorrow’s Schools Today” at the 21st Century Learning @ the West Lake Expo held Oct 31 – Nov 3, 2009 at Xi Hu, China, also known as West Lake. West Lake is in the center of Hangzhou, China, which is about an
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This was a bit of an unusual sight in the Shanghai customs line: A push-button interface at the immigration station for travelers to rate the performance of the Chinese police officer who was reviewing your passport and visa. There were four different levels of satisfaction, designated by the smiley faces and text labels underneath each
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These are my notes from Milton Chen’s presentation, “The Digital Generation: Up Close and Personal” at the 21st Century Learning @ the West Lake Expo held Oct 31 – Nov 3, 2009 at Xi Hu, China, also known as West Lake. West Lake is in the center of Hangzhou, China, which is about an hour
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These are my notes from Prof Ronghuai Huang’s presentation, “eLearning in the Chinese Context” at the 21st Century Learning @ the West Lake Expo held Oct 31 – Nov 3, 2009 at Xi Hu, China, also known as West Lake. West Lake is in the center of Hangzhou, China, which is about an hour by
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These are my notes from the opening speeches and Don Knezek’s opening keynote address at the 21st Century Learning @ the West Lake Expo, titled “ISTE’s Global Digital-Age Learning, Teaching, and Education Leadership Skills.” This conference is taking place at Xi Hu, China, also known as West Lake. West Lake is in the center of
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Sharon Betts, Nick Azzaretti, Scott Bourgoin, Colleen Akerman, Cheryl Oakes, and David Trask published an excellent article in the September 2009 issue of ACTEM’s “Electronic Educator” newsletter titled, “Netbooks: Another Solution for Maine Students.” I recommend you read the full article, but here is an excerpt that may give you some clues about why I
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This projector (used for advertising in the airport in Minneapolis/St Paul) is the most interactive one I’ve encountered to date! Wouldn’t the students in your classroom love this… I’m sure they could think of some creative ways to use this interactive technology! Technorati Tags: interactive, projector
I am delighted that iTunes supports synchronizing my address book on my iPhone with my GMail contacts, but I’ve been dismayed by the number of duplicate entries which resulted when I enabled this sync option. This experience has brought back flashbacks from November 2007 when I encountered massive contact duplication issues working with Plaxo. Fortunately,
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Now that I’m the executive director of Story Chasers Inc., an Oklahoma nonprofit focused on digital storytelling and our state oral history project, I definitely am more attuned to issues related to nonprofits and effective “story sharing.” Thanks to Beth Kanter, I learned today about Michael Hoffman‘s recent presentation (available via a Slidecast on SlideShare)
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Bob Sprankle, who I had the great pleasure of meeting in person AT LAST two weeks ago at ACTEM09 in Maine, published his 100th podcast on Bit-by-Bit last week. Bob reflected on “the podcasting journey” with Scott Lockman, Cheryl Oakes, Alice Barr, and yours truly. I’m honored to be included in this august group of
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Cheryl Oakes‘ post, “When was the last time you watched someone teach a digital learner?” tells the story of my 9 year old at the ACTEM conference two weeks ago in Maine, as she learned how to use the program Animation-ish. The program is described as: …an easy-to-use animation software program that inspires creativity and
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These are my notes from the Oklahoma City WordPress User’s Group Meeting on 26 October 2009. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS, EVERYTHING ELSE IS NOTES TAKEN DURING THE SESSION. In attendance tonight. David North (user group organizer) Burt Bones burtbone.com – builds WordPress sites for other people Chris Jean – chrisjean.com -
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If you are an Oklahoma teacher, administrator, or student, and are interested in participating in an engaging digital learning project involving your local community history, videoconferencing technologies, and digital storytelling, this announcement is for YOU! The deadline for the OKC3 Project (Oklahoma Kids Create, Communicate, Collaborate) has been extended to November 15, 2009. $30,000 in
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The complexities of running a living room television set have really increased in the past few years. How many different video and audio sources do you now route through your television and living room entertainment center, if you have one? For us, the list has grown to include a DVD player, a computer (mainly for
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Jenah Kastelic’s article this past Friday for the Woodward News, “iSurprise: Area school hands out iPods,” tells the story of Gage Public Schools rolling out iPod Touches for all teachers and students in grades 3-12. Gage is a small community of several hundred people in extreme western Oklahoma. More photos of the rollout are available
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This podcast is a recording of the ACTEM 2009 conference breakout session, “WordPress Saves Lives – Learn How,” by Wesley Fryer on October 16, 2009. ACTEM is the Association of Computer Technology Educators in Maine, and their 2009 conference was held in Augusta. The official conference description for this session was: WordPress is a free,
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Jason Kern recently asked me to share information about how I create and publish podcasts here on “Moving at the Speed of Creativity,” and rather than send that info to just him I thought I’d create a post to share these links and procedures. Since I’ve developed these procedures over time it’s entirely possible there
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