I invited Karen Montgomery to join the Great quotes about Learning and Change Flickr group, and she added images she’d previously uploaded into her “Quotes” Flickr set. Here are three of my favorites! H/T to Darren Kuropatwa, who reminded me about the Great quotes about Learning and Change Flickr group in his wonderful METC 2010 presentation,
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It’s VERY important we practice and help other learners practice visual storytelling. I’m growing fond of three word phrases which summarize elements of the ISTE NETS. Talk with pictures. Communicate with media. These are some of the ideas which underlie the “Tell a Story with 5 Photos for Educators” project and Flickr group, created by
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This podcast is a recording of Susan Andrews’ presentation, “Bring Curriculum Alive with SCRATCH” at the 2010 METC Conference. The official program description was: Are your students ready to meet 21st Century skills using a fun, simple and free computer programming language to create curriculum related projects? SCRATCH was designed to allow students to use
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These are my notes from “Design Matters” by Darren Kuropatwa at METC 2010 today. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Darren is the most amazing math teacher I have ever met personally, and one of the most visionary teacher-leaders alive today. He walks the talk of blended, project-based, engaged learning like few educators do today.
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These are my notes from “The Natives Are Restless” by Deneen Frazier Bowen at the 2010 METC Conference on February 10th. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. This session is being live-streamed, and that archived video will be published later on the METC website. “The Internet and Your Kids” in 1995 was published
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I recorded audio during my opening keynote (“Storychasing Literacy“) at the Midwest Educational Technology Conference (METC) today, and synchronized that mp3 file this evening to my presentation slides on SlideShare. Storychasing Literacy (METC 2010) View more presentations from Wesley Fryer. SlideShare does permit users to add YouTube videos to slides, but videos cannot be added
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I received a very troubling phone call today from a technology director in a rural school, whose superintendent has apparently decided to “outsource” him and his lone technician. All the details are not finalized, but the proposal is to terminate both employees’ current positions with the school district (ostensibly to save the district money in
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Last week’s NewsOK article, “Online study is way of life at Crescent High School,” provides a little insight into the impact of our Oklahoma State School Board holding their February meeting in Crescent Public Schools on February 4th. I discussed the importance of this visit in my Feb 3rd post, “Crescent Public Schools: The Eyes
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I’m absent this week for my Technology 4 Teachers’ class, due to my involvement in the METC 2010 conference. In my absence, a staff member of UCO’s IT department will be coming to my classes tomorrow to share an hour long “Introduction to the SmartBoard” presentation with my students. In collecting a few links about
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Today’s AP article, “Oklahoma Supreme Court rejects request to reopen rate case,” raises some interesting issues about AT&T. If a past state supreme court case was decided by a 2-1 vote, and one of the justices voting with the majority to close the case was later sentenced to prison for taking a bribe related to
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These are my notes from Leslie Fisher’s METC 2010 presentation, “The iPhone and iPod Touch Application.” MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Follow Leslie on Twitter: twitter.com/lesliefisher Welcome to the iPhone class. I am a 10 year Apple veteran. I didn’t buy the iPhone because I was on Verizon and I was bitter.
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These are my notes from Ian Jukes‘ METC 2010 presentation, “Literacy Is Not Enough: 21st Century Fluency for the Digital Age” at the METC 2010 conference. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I haven’t heard Ian present in quite a few years. He was the first person at an educational technology conference (TCEA) to really
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These are my paltry notes from David Jakes’ METC 2010 presentation, “Beyond the Web 2.0 Hype: Focusing on What Really Matters.” I arrived a few minutes after this presentation started…. and unfortunately for my learning here (but good for my daughter) I had to step out to supervise a hotel swim before we check out
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We’ve received some snow in St Louis, but the Midwest Educational Technology Conference (METC) goes on! Yesterday pre-conference workshops were held, and today and tomorrow are the “regular days” of the conference. Here are links to the resources I’ll be sharing in my sessions today. Storychasing Literacy (a.k.a. “StoryChasing: Empowering Students as Digital Witnesses”) Prior
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Great thoughts about why we should CHOOSE teaching from Gail Lovely: To be a teacher — choose it as a calling, not a job. Choose it to do something meaningful and powerful, with rewards only you might notice. Choose it to be a role model. Choose to be a teacher because you love learning. Choose
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If you were watching the Super Bowl last night on U.S. television, you likely saw Google’s advertisement, “Parisian Love,” during the third quarter. What a clever way to tell a story, through a series of Google searches and some well-timed sound clips. If you missed it, here it is, on YouTube (of course.) Is your
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These are my notes from a part of Darren Kuropatwa‘s METC 2010 workshop, “Extreme (web 2.0) Lesson Plan Makeover.” I was only able to attend a little of the afternoon session. WOW. If you ever have a chance to hear Darren present in person, do not miss it. I do not use the title, “Yoda,”
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I created a wiki page for the topic “use friendly images” as part of the 3 hour morning workshop I’m co-teaching tomorrow with Karen Montgomery here at the METC Conference in St Louis. The title of our hands-on workshop is, “Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning.” One of the most exciting finds I made for the
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Yesterday at our Creative Oklahoma Education committee meeting, Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry’s demo of “SixthSense technology” at the TED conference in February 2009 was mentioned. Speakers are being considered for the Creativity World Forum in Oklahoma City in November 2010, and the possibility of having Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry come share SixthSense is
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I’ve set up three different websites with WordPress in the past year for local nonprofits, and I need to help the leaders of each organization begin using their sites to post updated information. I’m utilizing screencast tutorials from WordPress.tv in this post to create training materials for these individuals as they start using WordPress. I’m
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