These are my notes from Malia Triggs presentation “Cartooning Around in Language Arts” at the 2011 Mississippi Educational Computing Association annual conference in Jackson on February 8th. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Many of the links to projects and resources Malia discussed in this GREAT preso are available on her Ning page
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A couple weeks ago in Missoula, Montana, Karen Montgomery and I led a 1.5 day workshop for educational leaders focused on “Technology Leadership: PLNs, Vision & PD.” During the workshop, participants attending face-to-face in Missoula as well as remotely via H.323 videoconferencing links responded to the “Digital Vision for Schools 2011 Challenge” by recording 30
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These are my notes from the afternoon session, “Learning with iPad” at the 2011 Mississippi Educational Computing Association annual conference in Jackson on February 7th. This session was presented by Neil Hitchcock. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. KEEP IN MIND VOLUME PRICING FOR SOME APPS IS AVAILABLE, THE PRICES I LISTED NEXT
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Did you watch the Super Bowl on television last night and see the Bridgestone “Reply All” commercial? David Zax’ article on February 3rd for FastCompany, “Super Bowl Ad Stories: How a Real “Reply-All” Faux Pas Yielded Comedy Gold” tipped me off this would be one to watch. The video is about an oh-so-easy to do
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I have shared the following information as a resource page on my “Technology 4 Teachers” curriculum wiki. Internet Explorer is NOT the only software option when it comes to viewing websites on the Internet. Websites SHOULD be designed to be standards-compliant, but sometimes they are not and display content differently in different web browsers. The following 69
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This is my reflection on Darren Kuropatwa’s 2010 K- 12 Online Conference video and keynote presentation, “Intersections.” Although I watched this video for the first time in October 2010 when it was published, I took twenty minutes today to watch it again and see what new insights I could glean from Darren. I’m following the
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Every K-12 classroom should have a classroom blog to interactively share student work. Classroom blogs offer a virtual space for teachers as well as students to provide “windows” into the learning which is taking place in the classroom, and are ideal for sharing photos, brief summaries, links, and other updates related to classroom activities. A
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Have you been affected by winter weather this week? I’m sure northerners used to REAL cold temperatures and heavy snowfalls will really get a kick out of this two minute clip from the Michael Berry Show. 37 degree temperatures in Houston can cause a city-wide panic! Hat tip to Houston resident and friend, Kristin Leard,
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This semester for the two “Technology 4 Teachers” sections I’m teaching at the University of Central Oklahoma, I’m having students learn about Google Reader as well as other feed/news aggregators. Their assignment for this week’s class (which we had to hold virtually in Elluminate because of snow days) was to: Subscribe to at least ten
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The future of digital content is and should be free / open. Rupert Murdoch has poor vision. “The Daily” – Glimpse of the Future?http://educationstormfront.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/the-daily-new-ipad-magazine/ (Sent from Flipboard) Sent from my iPad Posted via email from wesley fryer’s posterous
Creativity doesn’t follow a formula, but it often exhibits patterns. Creative people frequently build on the ideas and work of others. This is true in the genre of film as well as other contexts. Kirby Ferguson powerfully explains how “creation requires influence” in his ten minute video, “Everything is a Remix Part 2.” In the
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Mike Daisey is theatrical storyteller who recently traveled to the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China, which Andrew Keen of TechCrunch describes as the: …430,000 person factory that manufactures around 50% of all the personal communications devices used in America. photo © 2010 Robert Scoble | more info (via: Wylio) After reading Devin Coldewey’s post on
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Q: How can we find and use Creative Commons licensed images in our blog posts for class? A: I created a 4 minute screencast answering this question. The links I referenced are Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-Online Search, Wylio.com, Compfight.com, and TalkWithMedia.com’s Images page. Cross-posted to the T4T Course FAQ and TalkWithMedia.com. Technorati Tags: blog, images,
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This podcast is a recording of the final debriefing among organizers and cohort facilitators at the conclusion of the Learning 2.010 Conference at Concordia International School in Shanghai, China, on September 17, 2010. In 2010 more than ever, organizers of the conference worked hard to (in the words of Chris Betcher during our debrief) upset
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Reading books is important work. Talking about and sharing books which influence our thinking in important ways is also vital. With those assumptions in mind, this evening I launched a project I’ve been thinking about for several weeks titled, “Speed of Creativity Book Talk: Dialog About Books That Matter.” I’ve “seeded” the site initially with
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