On June 15th, 2010, President Obama addressed the nation about the oil spill in the gulf. Following the address, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs answered questions submitted by thousands of people worldwide who used the free website Google Moderator. To date on the page, “Gulf Coast Oil Leak: What Are Your Suggestions?” 15,835 people
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The annual Podstock conference is just around the corner! Podstock 2010 will be held July 16-17, 2010, at the Old Town Hotel in Wichita, Kansas. You can RSVP via the 2010 PodStock Facebook event page! If you have not already, also join the PodStock Ning. Kevin Honeycutt and many others at ESSDACK in Hutchinson, Kansas,
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Last week I received a question about the two different “feed count chicklets” I have in the right sidebar of my blog. One of these shows blog subscribers, and the other shows podcast subscribers. The question I received was, “How did you create those?” The short answer is I used Feedburner (now owned by Google
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Yesterday’s post, “Optimize iTunes import settings for audio book CDs,” addressed the technical aspects of importing audiobooks from CD to digital formats. Today we’ll briefly address some of the copyright and licensing issues which are raised by this importing / encoding / ripping process for audiobooks. photo credit: jc.westbrook It’s important to be aware copyright
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If you purchase audiobooks on CD, it can be handy to import those files into iTunes so you can listen to the audiobook on an iPod, iPhone or iPad. Before clicking the IMPORT button, however, it’s a good idea to change your default iTunes import settings. The reason for this is FILE SIZE: iTunes’ default
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This is HUGE news. Wow! Take a scanned document and convert it via OCR technologies to editable text via Google Docs. All for free. http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/06/optical-character-recognition-ocr-in.html Hat tip to Alan Levine! http://twitter.com/cogdog Kudos to the innovators at Google! Sent from my iPad Posted via email from wesley fryer’s posterous
Following up on my browser-based video editing experiments with Jaycut earlier in the week, this evening I used the website Stroome.com to edit a short, four minute video about an outreach project of our local church in Edmond, Oklahoma. Stroome uses the open source Kaltura video editor, and this was my first time to use
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The image below provides quite a stark contrast between old and new. This is a featured “editors’ choice” image in the Reuters gallery app for the iPad today. This is an incredible app. Visual literacy meets current events, all at the flick of your finger. It’s a weird feeling looking at all the images of
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Google’s announcement last week of its beta YouTube video editor inspired me to take another look at how easy it can be to create a video ENTIRELY online, using a web browser instead of client-side software like iMovie or Windows Live MovieMaker. I last gave this a stab in July 2008 using the now defunct
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Part 2 of 2: This podcast is a recording of a presentation by Wesley Fryer on June 16, 2010, in San Antonio, Texas, at the summer administrative leadership conference for Northeast ISD. This was a 2+ hour presentation, so the recordings have been separated into two parts. See the podcast shownotes for links to referenced
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Podcast351: Leading Schools with Digital Vision in a Bubblesheet World (part 2 of 2) [ 1:18:31 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2496)Since our family already owns a Kindle and an iPad, we’re not in the market for another eBook reader. Still, I’m always curious to learn how different eBook readers compare, so today at Barnes and Noble I asked one of the salespeople to give me the lowdown on the Nook. I read earlier today Barnes
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Limewire is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing program, often utilized to illegally download music and movies online. According to the English Wikipedia: LimeWire uses the gnutella network and also the BitTorrent protocol. A free software version and a purchasable “enhanced” version are available. The software is developed by Lime Wire LLC, which is a subsidiary
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The following wireless networks are available at the shopping center where I got my hair cut this morning: Someone, perhaps the proprietor of the hair salon, purchased and installed a wireless router without changing any of the default settings. As a result, a savvy visitor was able to readily log into the administrative dashboard of
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Yesterday I shared a presentation with administrators in San Antonio, Texas, and was delighted to meet Honor Moorman in person at the event. Honor is a teacher at the International School of the Americas, and students in her 21st Century Global Leadership class last Spring created some fantastic videos as culminating class projects. Pre-service teachers
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Part 1 of 2: This podcast is a recording of a presentation by Wesley Fryer on June 16, 2010, in San Antonio, Texas, at the summer administrative leadership conference for Northeast ISD. This was a 2+ hour presentation, so the recordings have been separated into two parts. See the podcast shownotes for links to referenced
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Podcast350: Leading Schools with Digital Vision in a Bubblesheet World (part 1 of 2) [ 1:06:57 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2168)Global Voices Online continues to be one of my favorite websites and news sources because it provides such a diverse and eclectic window into perspectives of people who live around our planet. Last week I listened to the NPR Technology Podcast from May 5th, which included the article, “Bridging the Online Language Barrier: Translating the
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If you were concerned the U.S. doesn’t have compelling economic reasons to remain engaged militarily in Afghanistan, this NYT article suggests you might want to reserve judgement: “The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals
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“The little-known Envelope Manufacturers Association has been fighting proposals to mandate paperless statements. “There ought to be a choice,” says Maynard Benjamin, CEO of the group. “A large portion of people still do not have Internet service.” Good grief. Is there a pro-paperless lobby to which we can contribute to counter this anti-digital rogue voice?
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I few years I heard Marco Torres use the term “Yoda” to describe the educational and technology mentors in our lives. Following this definition, I can say unequivocally that Kevin Hodgson is THE pre-eminent “Yoda” of using stopmotion in the classroom in my book. Check out his recent post “Some Reflective Thoughts on Stopmotion and
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I snapped this photo in the LAX airport today enroute to my connecting flight. It is great some airlines are providing recharging stations like this. It makes me think of older classrooms in our schools where power outlets are few and far between. How is the electrical power outlet situation in your classroom? We have
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