These are my notes from Curtis Bonk’s opening keynote address, “Nothing ‘Flat’ World about this Jazz: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education” at the 2010 Heartland eLearning Conference hosted by the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The Heartland eLearning conference is on Twitter, has a conference
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I wrote the following comment today in response to Jeremy Davis’ call for input in his post, “Need Preso Help.” He wrote: If you had 2 minutes to convince your State Board of Education that library and information literacy standards needed to be passed, what would you say? Please chime in with your own thoughts
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When the topics of cell phones, social media websites, and digital technologies come up in conversation, I frequently hear adults bemoan teens and and their inability to exert proper digital discipline with these interactive tools. Today’s Associated Press article, “Courts Cracking Down on Texting Jurors,” highlights the fact that plenty of adults face social media
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Walter Bender, former president of software and content for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation and founder of Sugar Labs, granted an interview in December 2009 to Wade Roush. Wade’s article is titled, “Sugar Gets Sweeter: Former OLPC Exec Walter Bender on Netbooks, E-books, Blueberry, and Cloudberry.” Bender gave the opening keynote address in
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This morning I’m sharing a 3 hour pre-conference workshop at the Heartland eLearning Conference at UCO in Edmond, Oklahoma, on Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning. This workshop is customized for eLearning specialists and online instructors. To preserve past versions of this workshop, Karen Montgomery and I are archiving those versions as separate, saved pages on
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Despite numerous experiences which could persuade me otherwise, I remain an ardent idealist who wants to change the world for the better. Nicholas Negroponte and the OLPC project have been two extremely influential inspirations to me in the past few years. The March 2010 issue of “The Rotarian” magazine includes the article, “The Rotarian Conversation
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On behalf of our non-profit Story Chasers Inc. I’m pleased to announce the start of the Celebrate Kansas Voices project. (CKV) Celebrate Kansas Voices is a statewide digital storytelling project empowering learners to become digital witnesses, archiving local oral history and sharing that history safely on the global stage of the Internet. Our project is
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These are my notes from Bob Lee’s session “Remix: Blending Creative Works to Show Mastery of Classroom Content” at the 2010 MACE (Mid-America Association for Computers in Education) Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. MY THOUGHTS AND FEEDBACK ARE IN ALL CAPS. All resoruces are on tinyurl.com/leeremix – bob [dot] lee [usd382 [dot] com Bob Lee is
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These are my notes from Janet Sauber’s presentation “Edmodo: a social network that works in the classroom” at the 2010 MACE (Mid-America Association for Computers in Education) Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I am recording this session with audio and may podcast it later. Janet is a technology
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These are my notes from a book club meeting in Manhattan, Kansas, which focused on “The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers” by Brion McClanahan. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS HERE ARE IN ALL CAPS. Brion observes the textbooks now give topics greater or lesser amounts of importance by the people who write the textbooks.
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I created this today using “The Newspaper Clipping Generator.” I wish this was true. In case you can’t read the above text on this Flickr image, here it is as text: In a move that has stunned technology fear-mongers and edtech vendors statewide, the internet service provider “Two Flowers” has decided to unblock the website
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These are my notes from Laura Sadler presentation “Web 2.0 Projects” at the 2010 MACE (Mid-America Association for Computers in Education) Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. All links from this session are available via Glogster. Kim will first talk about our blogging in the library project – our
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These are my notes from Kay Tibb’s presentation “Cell Phones R 4 More Than Texting: Let’s plan for them, not ban them!” at the 2010 MACE (Mid-America Association for Computers in Education) Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. MY THOUGHTS AND FEEDBACK ARE IN ALL CAPS. Kay is the Technology Director for USD 353 in Wellington, Kansas.
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These are my notes from Jennifer Dorman’s presentation “Free Resources from Discovery Education” at the 2010 MACE (Mid-America Association for Computers in Education) Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. MY THOUGHTS AND FEEDBACK ARE IN ALL CAPS. This session was webcasted by Dean Mantz and live-blogged via CoverItLive. Those archives are embedded below. MACE 2010 DEN w/
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These are my notes from Janet Wozniak’s keynote address, “Think back to the reason you got into education: To change the world” at the 2010 MACE (Mid-America Association for Computers in Education) Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. MY THOUGHTS AND FEEDBACK ARE IN ALL CAPS. Janet works for Apple Computer with IT and Learning Technologies. Her
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Hat tip to Silvia Tolisano for her tweet and post, “Skype in the News,” which highlighted Shanthi Venkataraman’s recent article for the Columbia News Service, “Skype Gives Students Window On The World.” Shanthi is a student from Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism. I am delighted the use of Skype by Deer Creek Public Schools
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These are my notes from Michael Church’s presentation on “Kansas Memory: Real Stories, Real People” at the 2010 MACE (Mid-America Association for Computers in Education) Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. MY THOUGHTS AND FEEDBACK ARE IN ALL CAPS. I am audio recording this with permission from Michael and may later post this as an audio podcast.
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Yesterday in week 8 of my “Technology 4 Teachers” class at the University of Central Oklahoma we focused on GeoApps, or Geographic Applications. The overview for yesterday’s class was: GeoApps are applications which permit learners to connect concepts to geography. Google Maps is a browser-based Geo-application environment, and Google Earth is a software-based GeoApp. We’ll
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The following is a cross-post from my “Technology 4 Teachers” (T4T) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) blog. Question: In a wiki I created in wikispaces, how can I embed video? Answer: Before working on your WikiSpaces site, copy the embed code for your video from the website where you found it or uploaded it. The steps
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The following is a cross-post from my “Technology 4 Teachers” (T4T) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) blog. Question: I tried to use voice memo on my iphone to upload voice comments to my VoiceThread, but its telling me that to do this I have to upgrade my VoiceThread account and pay for it. What other options
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