Remember being amazed 1 GB flash media drives existed at all, because your mind was still used to thinking in MEGAbytes instead of GIGAbytes? Have you had the experience yet of seeing vendors at conferences give away 1+ GB flash drives with their free files and marketing content already loaded, because they are so cheap
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NewsOK (The Daily Oklahoman) is the largest newspaper in Oklahoma City, and I suspect the largest mainstream media conglomerate in our state. I love to read their news feeds in my RSS aggregator, but their policy of forcing the public to PAY to access news articles over 60 days old is flawed and should change.
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I read Stacy Martin’s article last Wednesday in the City Sentinel newspaper of Oklahoma City, “Historic NAACP Center in danger of closing,” with great dismay. According to the article: The timing of the Jan. 18th 2010 tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. couldn’t arrive at a more ironic time for Oklahoma’s NAACP office, 2609 N.
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My 6th grader brought home some forms for his new spring classes this term, including a leadership class. His teacher is going to be showing the following full-length movies in class this semester: Mulan 101 Dalmations Bee Movie Toy Story 1 Toy Story 2 Horton Hears a Who Finding Nemo The Incredibles Madagascar Madagascar 2
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The EduTopia video “YES Prep Boasts a College-Bound Culture” is right on target: Helping students “picture themselves” at college, develop the goal orientation which leads to college attendance as well as the SKILLS required for success in college all start with face-to-face visits to different university campuses. This video inspires me to think about setting
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Thanks to the list of recommended WordPress plug-ins from Studiopress, I discovered Lester Chan’s WP Database Manager plugin and WP-PluginsUsed plugin today. These are both free and can add valuable functionality to self-hosted WordPress blogs. WP Database Manager provides a web-based interface for mySQL backups, repairs, and optimizations. “Removing overhead” from your WordPress mySQL blog
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This past fall when discussing 1:1 computing options at an educational technology conference, I asked an Apple rep the reasons schools should choose Macbooks over netbooks at this point. The person’s three part response was: Netbooks have weak batteries that won’t last more than two hours. Netbooks are flimsy / not rugged and won’t stand
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Since I’ve had an iPhone, there have been two occasions when I’ve purchased music via iTunes on my iPhone and have run into problems. In both cases, I decided / had to reformat my iPhone’s flash drive before I had synced purchased songs back to my main iTunes library. Unlike iTunes Apps, which can be
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For at least six months I’ve used the WordPress Mobile Edition plug-in to provide visitors to my WordPress blog, who use a mobile device like an iPhone, iPod Touch, or Blackberry, with a quick-loading mobile interface. This plug-in is a bit unusual, since it also requires a custom theme which must be uploaded into your
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It’s been awhile since my last podcast! No podfading here, however…. In this podcast I share a recap of several technology initiatives in which I’ve been involved in the past month, some thoughts about Larry Lessig’s EduCause presentation in November 2009, and a couple short interviews at the ACTEM conference in Maine with Richard Byrne,
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Larry Lessig is a thought leader and author I deeply respect. Thanks to Michelle Thorne’s post yesterday on the Creative Commons blog, I learned about Dr. Lessig’s presentation from November at EduCause which is available on blip.tv, “It is About Time: Getting Our Values Around Copyright.” If you are remotely interested in copyright and intellectual
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This evening my kids helped me create my first contribution to “The International Cooking Show,” sharing our favorite family recipe for fondue. We recorded this in one take on my iPhone, and I edited it in iMovie ’09. I used the iMovie settings shown in Steven Sande’s post, “How to make iPhone videos sparkle with
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I submitted the following to iTunes tonight as a review of the free Fluent News iPhone app. Fluent News is also available as a mobile-optimized website. I like Fluent News a lot as a news app. I wish it was integreated with Google Reader so I could share articles I read in Fluent News via
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It’s instructive to see the only current workshop topic offered by our local school district’s technology department is “SMARTboards II,” for both elementary and secondary teachers. These workshop listings sadly reflect, unfortunately, a broader trend I’ve seen in other places in the midwestern USA. Teachers are interested in IWB (interactive whiteboard) training. Administrators are interested
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Students and teachers at the Calgary Science School (CSS) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, have created a Global Worldview Survey, and invite you to participate. The grade 8 students at CSS are currently working on a large scale project dealing with the concept of WORLDVIEW, part of the Grade 8 curriculum in Alberta. As part of
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Kevin Honeycutt has published an updated YouTube version of his wonderful song, “I Need My Teachers To Learn.” Instead of using video for the b-roll footage, his friend Rae helped him use still images synchronized to the music. It’s just over three minutes long, take some time today and check it out: In many ways
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Cross-posted to the Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning blog. I shared an hour-long videoconference today for the Tandberg Connections program and the CILC, discussing the “Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning” framework. In addition to our H.323 videoconference, which was bridged to endsites in Arkansas, Virginia and Texas, I shared the presentation over Ustream and recorded
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The 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicks off this week in Las Vegas, and that means lots of tech gadget announcements are headed our way. The month is shaping up to be filled with tech news, with Google officially announcing the Nexus One “G phone” at 10 am Pacific today, and Apple expected to announce
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I recorded a brief 3 minute and 16 second screencast tutorial this evening using Screenr describing how to enable comment moderation on a YouTube video. Refer to my post from September 2009, “Criteria for moderating comments on a viral video,” for background on why enabling comment moderation is always a good idea. Also see the
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These are my notes from several K12Online09 presentation videos I watched this evening riding the Heartland Flyer Amtrak train from Fort Worth, Texas, back to Oklahoma City on my iPhone. This post was blogged on my netbook running Win7 using free Windows Live Writer software, downloadable from Microsoft as part of Windows Live Essentials. A
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