Today I had a five and a half hour opportunity to put together a new swingset with my brother-in-law. This is the third time I’ve put together a swingset as a parent, and the first time I’ve put together a wooden swingset. The first time I ever spent hours putting together a swingset in my
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Thursday at the Oklahoma Multimedia Teachers workshop in Norman, I asked our participants to discuss and share stories they wish they had recorded or could record. Most of these were family stories, and many were about relatives who had lived amazing and interesting lives. I recorded these using the iPadio application on my iPhone, to
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This afternoon I’m learning with educators participating in the week long “Oklahoma Multimedia Teachers” workshop on convergence journalism at OU’s Gaylord College of Journalism. This is the third year of the workshop here in Oklahoma, which is part of the High School Broadcast Journalism (HSBJ) Project. Earlier in the week, Mike Koehler shared a host
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Cross-posted to the Storychasers blog. In preparation for next week’s inaugural “Celebrate Kansas Voices” (CKV) oral history and digital storytelling workshop, we’ve created a new two-page guide explaining how to publish videos to YouTube and embed videos in our CKV learning community / Ning site. This is included in our 24 page participant handout. (PDF)
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Do you consider yourself a passionate person? What are the things about which you are passionate? Are you passionate about kids and helping kids learn? Are you passionate about opening up new vistas of experiences and understanding for others which – absent your intervention – they might never experience? Are you passionate about creating moments
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I attended a meeting today which raised my blood pressure a bit. I’ll elaborate later, but for now I’ll invite you to take thirty seconds and answer the following five question poll. I’ve created this with Google Docs, and am embedding it below. Loading… Thanks for your participation! After submitting your answers, you’ll be able
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This podcast is a fortuitous interview recording with Stacia Reddish, who was the US Air Force Public Affairs officer in charge of the “NORAD Tracks Santa” program for five years. Stacia was responsible for getting Google involved with NORAD Tracks Santa and taking the program (which dates from the 1950s) to the next level with
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Podcast354: Behind the Curtain of NORAD Tracks Santa Program [ 19:53 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2890)
This weekend I was pleased to learn the social bookmarking web service Diigo now supports the capture of browser-based screenshots. Had I been able to attend ISTE 2010 this year in Denver, I might have learned this at the beginning of July when this new capability was announced during the conference. Diigo’s screenshot capture options
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Earlier this month, I had the privilege to accompany my son and his scout troop to summer camp in Colorado. Our group for the week included about 40 boys and 10 parents. Shortly after arriving at the church before our departure by charter bus, one of the other parents approached me and asked if I’d
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This podcast is an interview with David Chaney of Epic Charter Schools in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on June 25, 2010. In early-June 2010, Oklahoma governor Brad Henry signed Senate Bill 2319 into law which radically changes the groundrules for online, virtual learning in Oklahoma. In this podcast, David discusses the model of virtual learning which
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Podcast353: Free, Online K-12 Education Options for ALL Oklahoma Students via Epic One on One Charter School [ 51:40 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2908)
I’m doing a bit of homework in advance of some professional development sessions I’ll be sharing next month down south in Texas, and noticed today the Texas Education Agency (TEA) is providing several different web feeds of content on their main site. This is a GOOD step in the right direction, and hopefully we’ll see
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I can’t wait for November to get here and part one of the final Harry Potter movie series: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” The movie trailer looks great! In case you’re wondering when the movie creators are going to split the final book to make the two movie segments, the “Story” section of the
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Campaigning for November elections here in Oklahoma is in full swing, but to date I feel largely uninformed. I want a mobile application or iOS app which lets me identify where I vote, and then provides me with information about all the candidates for whom I can vote in November. The app should also include
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This morning on The Today Show, hosts interviewed a San Diego family which was challenged to give up cell phones, computers and TV for an entire day. In addition, Tony Schwartz (author of “The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance” addressed the need we have to take proactive
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Over the years our family has purchased various iPod models, and we tend to pass them down by age. Currently, this means my six year old daughter is the proud owner of a 2 GB second generation iPod Nano purchased in 2006. That was payment for her sister’s work (who was then about to enter
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If this can happen to Alan November, it can happen to any of us using WordPress as a blogging platform on a self-hosted website. Vulnerabilities like this are not limited to WordPress, however, they can happen to any website. YouTube was hacked on July 4th this year, and Justin Bieber’s videos seemed to get the
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Yesterday, as the culminating event of our week in Colorado for Boy Scout camp, our troop went river rafting near Buena Vista, Colorado, with Buffalo Joe’s. My son, Alexander, is sitting to my left in the second row of our raft. It doesn’t look like we were enjoying this at all, does it?! What a
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