Today and tomorrow, I’m sharing a 2.5 hour presentation entitled, “Empowering 21st Century Learners” with educators in Canyon ISD, Texas, just south of Amarillo. I’ve uploaded and shared my presentation slides on Slideshare. If SlideShare is blocked in your location, you can alternatively
Archive for August, 2010:
Tell A Story in 5 Photos for Educators: S’mores!
If you’ve never been camping and enjoyed
Guest blogging is like going on vacation!
Cheryl Oakes here, blogging for Wes Fryer as he vacations with his family! Thanks for the opportunity. I hope this post adds a challenge to many educators heading back to school for the 2010-11 school year. We are all familiar with accessibility on our sidewalks, the curb cuts were designed to make sidewalks accessible for
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We Need More Hawkeyes
Guest post from Richard Byrne. Every year I review thousands of free web-based resources on my own blog. Many are the times that I get emails or comments from readers telling me that they cannot use one of the resources I’ve reviewed because the resource is blocked by a filter. There’s not much that I
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Moving Beyond the Tools…..How Do We Implement Them?
FREE METC 2010 Online Conference available now through August 27th
The Midwest Education Technology Conference (METC) is held each year in St Louis, Missouri in February. This year, I was honored to join Darren Kuropatwa, Angela Maiers, David Jakes, Ian Jukes, Gail Lovely, Leslie Fisher, Deneen Frazier-Brown, Scott Meech, Howie DiBlasi, and many others presenting at the conference. From August 9 through August 27, 2010,
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Subscribe to Classroom 2.0 LIVE sessions in iTunesU
Have you checked out the amazing number of high-quality videos and other resources available in iTunesU? I learned recently (thanks to Peggy George) that archived, video versions of Classroom 2.0 LIVE sessions are now available in iTunesU. After you click the K-12 category in iTunesU, choose “Arizona’s IDEAL eLearning Platform, then Professional Development, and lastly
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When I Become a Librarian (Librarian Movie)
Today I had the pleasure of leading a full-day workshop for librarians in Mid-Del Public Schools, located in Midwest City, Oklahoma, just east of Oklahoma City and next to Tinker Air Force Base. Inspired by Marco Torres and his 2001 “Teacher Movie” created with educators at Lesley University, we created the following 2 minute video,
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MediaWiki spam cleanup recap and tutorial
The best way to learn how to use a new technology tool is to find or create a current, authentic purpose for using it. That is my present situation with MediaWiki (the free and open source wiki platform which powers WikiPedia and many other wiki sites worldwide) and our Storychasers’ wiki. In this post, I’ll
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Jessi Slaughter (Jessica Leonhardt) on YouTube: A Case Study on Digital Citizenship
The actions of Florida 11 year old “Jessi Slaughter” (Jessica Leonhardt) on YouTube as well as her father provide a case study on digital citizenship both sad and instructive to witness. The following seven minute segment from Good Morning America back in July 2010 provides a partial summary of the incident and situation. The YouTube
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Create a Friend list on Facebook
I may be the only Facebook user who didn’t know about “friend lists,” but in case I’m not I’m sharing this. My mom taught me how to create a Facebook Friend list today for other members of our family! Lists you create of Facebook friends are NOT readily shareable with others (as far as I
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Quickstart Guide for iMovie ’09
This evening I created a four page “quickstart guide” for iMovie ’09, focusing specifically on the steps required to use iMovie for our Storychasers “phase 1 workshops” for Celebrate Oklahoma Voices and Celebrate Kansas Voices. This document is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. If using, please give credit to storychasers.org. To
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Dr Tim Tyson on our need for visionary educational leadership
Dr Tim Tyson’s post today, “Do We So Easily Fool Ourselves?,” is a must-read for everyone interested in education and the future of the United States. He concludes his post by noting: Instead of seeing serious efforts to fund a revolutionary educational policy that rewards the highest levels of academic and artistic achievement instead of
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From 671 trains in a day to six: Transformations in travel and learning
This afternoon my girls and I were able to spend about an hour at Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, along with my sister and nephew. In addition to having some fun taking composite cartwheel pictures using Pano, we also learned a bit about the amazing history of Union Station and trains in the Kansas
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Show your remaining battery percentage on your iOS device (iPhone, iPad, etc)
Yesterday I learned how to turn on the “battery percentage” on my iPhone. This is a handy way to know specifically how much remaining battery life you have in your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. I’d had this turned on (I think by default) on my iPad, but hadn’t realized I could turn this on
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2010 K-12 Online Conference Call for Proposals #k12online10
The call for proposals for the 2010 K-12 Online Conference has been released! Please check out all the details, and the online Google form, on the K-12 Online Conference blog. This year the conference will feature a “Student Voices” strand for the first time! Please consider submitting a proposal by August 13, 2010, and share
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