Messages like this one might be common at your school and in your classroom. This was displayed today in my computer’s web browser when I tried to visit the website Flickr, which is included on the website whitelist we distribute to schools in advance of our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices workshop. Several things about this Internet
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This podcast is an excerpt of the April 1, 2010 Seedlings webcast on EdTechTalk, featuring commentary by Wesley Fryer focusing on Race to the Top and current “educational reform” efforts in the United States spearheaded by the Obama administration. Wesley discussed the apparent goals of Race to the Top, which appear to be public funding
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What does the “War on Terror,” jazz, manufactured consent, hip-hop music, remix culture, Led Zepplin, globalization, Radio Head, contemporary Iranian music responding to recent alleged electoral fraud, and a 1924 film commissioned by the Soviet government have in common? These are all themes included in the latest album and DVD project, “The Secret Song” by
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A week ago Thursday (on April Fool’s Day) I was honored to be the guest on the Seedlings webcast. Among other much more lighthearted topics, Bob Sprankle asked me to share some of my thoughts and perspectives on Race to the Top. I plan to share just that portion of the archived webcast here soon
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The English WikiPedia defines “blog scraping” as: …the process of scanning through a large number of blogs, usually daily, searching for and copying content. This process is conducted through automated software. The software and the individuals who run the software are sometimes referred to as blog scrapers. Scraping is copying a blog that is not
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I’m in Tahlequah, Oklahoma this week, leading a Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital storytelling workshop for Storychasers at Lowrey School about 30 miles north of town. This evening driving back to my hotel from dinner, I passed the following advertisements on the highway south of Tahlequah. I’m generally not a fan of advertising, but these are
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Singing and dancing students, teachers and administrators in the YouTube video, “Scholar Ladies (Get An A On It)” share a positive message about high expectations for school learning and good grades. One of the students in my Technology 4 Teachers class this semester shared this video with me, after we watched the video “Gotta Keep
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It’s national library week in the United States this week, and Kathy Adams (media specialist at Gulf Middle School in Cape Coral, Florida) wants us all to “Help Save Libraries!” photo credit: stevendepolo On her Weebly-powered project website, “Freeze-n-Read 4 Libraries… 4.17.10 @ 4pm everywhere” she writes: Libraries Are Cool! If you think so, too…
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I’m spending several days this week in and near Tahlequah, Oklahoma, leading a Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital storytelling workshop for Storychasers at Lowrey School. Lowrey is one of just five public school districts in Oklahoma implementing a 1:1 laptop initiative, and is located about thirty minutes north of Tahlequah. This evening after I tweeted about
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This evening my son and I attended a two hour “Light Painting Workshop” at the Oklahoma City CoCo. (Coworking Collaborative) We learned about “makers,” building electronic circuits, LCD lights, and photography while we experienced new ways to have creative fun! During the workshop we built LCD light pens, and then used them to create different
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This is a bummer. I haven’t seen a compelling reason to upgrade to Keynote ’09. Looks like Apple wants to make one for iPad users. I tried presenting from my iPad with Keynote and the iPad VGA adapter last Wednesday in Iowa. I was underwhelmed. Keynote for iPad does not support hyperlinks, which I use
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My wife needs an auto-advancing PowerPoint slideshow for our church services this Sunday, which will include 205 photos of her preschoolers and nursery staff at work and play. She wants a 3 second delay on each photo. I’m not sure if there is a faster way to do this, but these are the steps I
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These are my presentation slides for my keynote this morning at the Oklahoma Higher Education Teaching and Learning Conference in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. The title of my presentation is, “Technology Trends in Higher Education.” Depending on how the PollEveryWhere survey goes at the start, I may or may not get to all these topics. It
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My sister-in-law is a librarian in Allen ISD, in Texas, and has been updating her webpage on the school’s website with new content. I’d like to subscribe to her updates in Google Reader, but the content management system presently utilized by the district does not appear to support RSS or otherwise provide a “subscribable” web
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I received several messages today from friends and family letting me know they’d received a message via Facebook which sounded suspicious. They feared my Facebook account had been compromised or hacked, and it looks like they were correct. I did NOT send the first message in the Facebook thread below, and still have no idea
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These are my notes from Jen Sigrist‘s presentation, “Results in learning: What are ways we can assess the impact to teaching and learning?” at the Iowa 1 to 1 Institute on April 7, 2010. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Jen is with Van Community Schools in Iowa. Results in learning: What are
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These are my notes from Shannon Miller‘s presentation, “Be The Change You Want To See In Schools” at the Iowa 1 to 1 Institute on April 7, 2010. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Presentation resources from this session are all included on this Google site. Presenters today on Twitter: shannonmmiller (Shannon) Josh_Porter1
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These are my notes from Angela Maiers‘ opening keynote at the Iowa 1 to 1 Institute on April 7, 2010. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Angela’s slides are available via SlideShare. Fluency 3.0 Angela Maiers 04-07-2010 View more presentations from angelamaiers. Today in schools we are doing what airline pilots due: taking
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These are the presentation resources for the two sessions our Storychasers board members / representatives will be sharing on April 7, 2010, in Des Moines, Iowa, at the CASTLE Iowa 1:1 Institute. Note both sessions are shared as Google Presentations with embedded hyperlinks. OER: Open Educational Resources Storychasing Literacy Technorati Tags: education, i11i, iowa, laptop,
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It’s pretty amazing to see the musical possibilities with iPhone applications like “I Am T-Pain” and “Beatmaker.” In three weeks the YouTube video, “Lady Gaga – Poker Face by Applegirl (ver. I-Phone Apps)” has had over 1 million views. This female, Japanese iPhone musician and singer used four iPhones, running two copies Beatmaker, 1 copy
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