Happy Veterans Day, to all our military veterans from all branches of service! This year on Veterans Day, I encourage you to take a few minutes and watch some of the tribute videos which have been created in the past few months by students and teachers in Oklahoma and Kansas, participating in Celebrate Oklahoma Voices
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It’s interesting to notice how in the UNT college computing environment, an office computer setup with two flat-panel LCD monitors has become “the standard” for most faculty and staff. Even as a lowly adjunct instructor this semester, the Windows desktop computer in my office is connected to two monitors. If a two flatscreen monitor setup
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This is very cool: An iPhone used to control an interactive game played on a HD television connected to an iPad. It’s hard to believe this game (“The Incident“) is $1.99. (Of course you DO need a $500+ iPad, a $150+ iPhone, and a HD television of uncertain cost…) Still, there’s a big difference here
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If you’re an educator, parent, or community leader interested in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) you need to know about rapid prototyping and digital fabrication. According to the English WikiPedia: A digital fabricator (commonly shortened to fabber) is a small, self-contained factory that can make objects described by digital data. Fabbers make three-dimensional, solid
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I've used the open source software platform Podcast Generator this semester to create and share audio lecturecasts of my "Computers in the Classroom" undergraduate course at UNT. I learned today, reading Marco Lazzari's 2008 article for Computers & Education, "Creative use of podcasting in higher education and its effect on competitive agency," that thousands of universities
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I’ve spent almost the entire day writing on my dissertation. Although the final results of this labor are months away from completion, my Friendfeed channel reveals many digital breadcrumbs from my research today. To take a short break this evening, I watched the 4.5 minute video Valerie Strauss shared in her Washington Post “Answer Sheet”
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Do employees have a protected right to complain about and discuss their supervisor with co-workers on Facebook? In some circumstances, perhaps. In today’s New York Times article, “Company Accused of Firing Over Facebook Post” we read: Lafe Solomon, the board’s acting general counsel, said, “This is a fairly straightforward case under the National Labor Relations
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Note the language used in today’s NewsOK editorial about cotton prices: “…by Indian tribes removed to the state from the southeastern United States.” Is “removed to the state” the politically correct terminology? What language do members of different tribes prefer? Does this choice of language matter? I’m inclined to think it matters a great deal.
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I love this statement by a Scratcher about becoming empowered in his use of MediaWiki to share knowledge about Scratch: “After editing a lot, another administrator on the wiki, named Juiceybox on the Scratch Website, made me administrator. This was a big step. Now, I could really make major interface changes, and make it more
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I had an opportunity tonight to use iPhoto ’11 for the first time, and I’m generally pleased with the software improvements. One of the things I’m happiest to see is better uploading integration with and publishing options to Flickr. After selecting a photo or group of photos in iPhoto ’11, choose SHARE – FLICKR in
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As a Storychaser interested in amplifying voices not often heard in the mainstream media, I couldn’t resist an opportunity to interview UNT student Will Clark last week about the reasons he opposes his university paying $100,000 to former President George W Bush for a speech to students later in the month. Will also explained some
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This semester for the first time, I’m having the opportunity to both teach and learn about Scratch software with my own undergraduate students enrolled in “Computers in the Classroom” at the University of North Texas. Today was our second day to learn about Scratch, and everyone brought their first project to class to share what
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RockMelt is a new web browser based on Chromium (by Google) and tightly integrated with the social web, particularly Facebook. This 2.5 minute video gives a short overview. As Michael Calore writes in his article “First Look at RockMelt, a Browser Built For Facebook Freaks” for Wired, many of the ideas of RockMelt have been
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Do you use Blackboard/WebCT at your school or institution? Are you compelled to use it? Have administrators attempted to tempt you, openly threatened you, or strongly encouraged you to use it? If any of the above scenarios are true, I encourage you to consider the Parable of The Tailor, shared by Clay Burrell. photo credit:
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Using the new Skyfire application for iOS devices (iPhone / iPod Touch and iPad) videos encoded to Flash format on Ning websites can be dynamically converted to HTML5 for viewing on an Apple mobile device. The app is available for $3.99 US. When viewing webpages in the Skyfire browser, users can select whether the desktop
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This podcast is a recording of Cheryl Beaman and Michelle Barnes’ presentation, “Implementing 1:1 Prepare Our Students for Their Future… TODAY!” at the Innovative Learning Institute sponsored by the K20 Center at the University of Oklahoma on November 4, 2010. Cheryl and Michelle are educators at Grand View School in Oklahoma, which is near
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Podcast363: Implementing 1:1 Prepare Our Students for Their Future... TODAY! [ 1:00:37 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1690)These are my notes from Alan November‘s opening presentation at the 4 November 2010 Innovative Learning Institute, sponsored by the OU K-20 Center in Norman, Oklahoma. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Work ethic is key, esp. in developing world schools (this is a big differentiator in what we see comparing US schools
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These are my notes from Audrey Crumbliss and Jon Hughes’ presentation at the 4 November 2010 Innovative Learning Institute, sponsored by the OU K-20 Center in Norman, Oklahoma. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Math is all around us – How do we get math into the classroom? – If we do, how
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The 2010 Creativity World Forum is coming to Oklahoma City in two weeks. In advance of the event, Creative Oklahoma is sponsoring a Creativity Contest for Students, who are challenged to: … show us your creative ideas for improving communities, schools and businesses so that Oklahoma remains a creative frontier. We invite all forms of
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If you were running for an Oklahoma public office on November 2, 2010, it was a good day to be a Republican. Republican candidate Mary Fallin will become Oklahoma’s first female governor, winning over 60% of the popular vote over her Democratic opponent, Jari Askins. Republican Janet Barresi won the race against Democrat Susan Paddack
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