These are my notes from the 31 January 2011 WordPress OKC User’s Group Meetup. WordPress is an open source content management system utilized by thousands of websites worldwide, including “Moving at the Speed of Creativity.” MY REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. We are meeting at iThemes tonight, which is an Edmond-based company specializing in WordPress
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Touch tablet computers like the iPad excel at showing off stunning photographs, and the free Fotopedia Heritage app provides a great demonstration of this capability. By clicking the “i” icon for more info on a photo, users can view a description of official UNESCO World Heritage sites as well as Wikipedia info for locations. Click
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If you’re an educator in or near Memphis, Tennessee, register to attend the Martin Institute’s 2011 “Spring Feast” Conference this week February 3-4. The schedule features four different workshop blocks, so attendees can gain hands-on experiences with learning strategies involving different digital technologies. The conference will be held at the Presbyterian Day School in Memphis.
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Yesterday I attended the Saturday portion of “SuperStart” weekend in Grand Prairie, Texas, with my daughter, Sarah. SuperStart is a 1.5 day, Christian ministry experience designed specifically for pre-teens. I wanted to document the event along with Sarah, so I asked her to use the iOS application Sonic Pics to narrate about ten photos from
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These three items caught my eye today at the Apple Store in Frisco, Texas. No new purchases today, but it’s amazing to see the creative, new accessories entrepreneurs continue to invent for iOS devices! As a podcaster and occasional “stringer,” I like the last icon on the back of the Mikey box. – Posted using
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This week’s 1.5 day workshop with educational administrators and teachers in Montana, “Technology Leadership: PLNs, Vision & PD,” was a great learning experience at multiple levels. Whenever educators get together and create media projects which are shared online and celebrated, good things usually happen. That’s been a key part of the formula for our Storychasers’
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As I’d hoped, today proved to be a wonderful day of learning in Missoula, Montana, with educational leaders from around the state. In addition to the crowd we had face-to-face at the University of Montana in Missoula, we had remote attendees connecting via H.323 video from Billings, Kalispell, Helena, and Poplar. Here are a few
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It’s wonderful to be here in Missoula, Montana, to spend a couple days with area school administrators discussing the need for educational leaders to create professional learning communities, to lead with “digitally informed” vision for blended learning, and support transformative models of professional development in our schools. I’ll be presenting and facilitating sessions here in
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Did you miss the State of the Union address by President Obama last night? This Wordle word cloud created with the text of the speech summarizes some of the emphasized themes. The full speech is available on Whitehouse.gov. Note all the interactive features provided on that website. Among other things it shares the “official” Twitter
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I love using my iPhone for numerous reasons, but a big one is mobile learning. In this post, I’ll describe some of the reasons I’m re-discovering my love for audio podcasts and audiobooks on the iPhone, thanks to the $2 app Podcaster and the free app, Audible. These are the “media consumption” apps I currently
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I like iTunes and enjoy using it, but from time-to-time I want to subscribe to a NEW podcast on my iPhone when I’m away from my computer. While iTunes on iOS devices (iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches) permits users to download new episodes in podcasts to which you are ALREADY subscribed and have at least
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This is a podcast recording of Will Richardson’s keynote, “Learning in a Networked World: For Our Students and For Ourselves” on January 17, 2011, in Amarillo, Texas. Will was presenting at the “Teaching The 21st Century Student” conference hosted by Education Service Center Region 16 in the Amarillo Civic Center. Refer to the podcast shownotes
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Podcast 368: Learning in a Networked World: For Our Students and For Ourselves by Will Richardson [ 1:25:40 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1556)
Oklahoma’s new state superintendent of public education, Janet Barresi, has not wasted any time leveraging the power of social media to communicate with constituents since taking office on January 10th. Not only is Janet personally using Twitter and Facebook to post as well as reply to other folks, she (I assume with the help of
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Manuel Gonzales has been the lead educational technology trainer for the Oklahoma State Department of Education for the past couple of years, and is a fantastic edtech guru. Manuel is moving with his family to Denver this spring because of his wife’s job, and let me know last week about the very creative professional resume
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Since giving our 13 year old son my old iPhone 3GS for Christmas, I’ve known his SMS (text message) use was going to go up. Previously, he’d had a Motorola Razr phone and sending text messages was cumbersome for him. Getting our family on the AT&T “family plan” for unlimited text messages has been on
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This evening I had an opportunity to conduct some impromptu video interviews using my iPhone, and edit them together using iMovie for iPhone for the first time. I published the final movie, which is just over five minutes long, in HD format to YouTube. I titled it, “Chili Cook-Off for Kids Ministries!” Compared to ReelDirector
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What does it mean to have vision as an educational leader in 2011? That is the question I challenge YOU to answer personally, and post your answer in video form to YouTube with the tag “digitalvision2011.” Please share your answer in 30 seconds or less. As these videos are recorded and posted to YouTube, they
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I love shooting, editing, and publishing video from my iPhone. I still have not tried the $5 iMovie app on my iPhone4, but have now edited and published two iPhone videos using the $2 ReelDirector app. I originally purchased it instead of iMovie since it’s also functional on older iOS devices, like the iPhone 3GS.
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As a society we are witnessing a tectonic shift in the way video content is created, distributed, and consumed worldwide. Research like the 2010 Horizon Report makes the ascendency of the mobile web and proliferation mobile devices which access the Internet clear to see. Increasingly, content consumed on mobile devices includes videos as well as
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I feel compelled to provide a bit of explanation for my 365 Photos Project image today, “USB Famine.” At the “Teaching The 21st Century Student” conference in Amarillo, Texas, on January 17, 2011, the video input converter for the projectors in the Amarillo Civic Center required an open USB port on the presenter’s laptop to
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