I love National Geographic magazine and have been a subscriber since college. This evening I had my first opportunity to experience the magazine in its new, digital form on the iPad, and I have to say I’m amazed by the experience. While I can be sentimental about the feel of paper pages when I read,
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I received a question recently from a technology integration specialist. He is working with a school which has parents who don’t want their child/student to have an email address at school. Since the teachers are using a variety of web-based tools for publishing student work, and some websites require student email addresses, this presents challenges
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Today at The Apple Store in Oklahoma City I had my first chance to play with the “mirroring” features of Apple’s new iOS 5 on an iPad and Apple TV. Wow. I’m impressed. When everything is setup, the Apple TV mirrors EVERYTHING on the iPad. The frame rate for games is even pretty decent. With
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This morning I had an opportunity to attend a memorial service for Vietnam Veterans at Kansas State University, conducted by the Air Force ROTC detachment at KSU. Since starting the “Sounds of My World” blog a couple months ago, I’ve been enjoying ambient audio recording in different settings. Just as my Photo 365 blog project
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When will our Oklahoma politicians and voters finally recognize the “No Child Left Behind” (NCLB) law is fundamentally flawed and was designed primarily to demonize both public schools and public school teachers as “failures” irrespective of academic results? One of the most telling quotations from today’s NewsOK article, “More Oklahoma schools, districts than ever ‘need
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Our family is not in a position to seriously consider purchasing a car now, but when we are I want to “go electric.” I found this comparison tool on Chevy’s website today that is helpful. I love lots of things about the Nissan Leaf, but am not sure I want a “commuter only” vehicle because
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Cross-posted from playingwithmedia.com One of the best parts of DVD movies are the commentaries by directors, actors, costume designers, and others involved in the creation and production of films. A few years ago, Kevin Honeycutt and I were talking about student video production and came up with the idea of a “Director’s Commentary” or an
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There are lots of word processing techniques which can make life easier for writers, and “split view” falls into this category. In Microsoft Word, sometimes I need to view a different part of the same document when I’m editing a section. This was the case last night on my dissertation, when I needed to view
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As I approach a significant academic milestone this semester with the completion of my dissertation and PhD, I thought I’d share a very handy iPad application I’ve been using to annotate, correct and edit PDF versions of my own writing recently: iAnnotate PDF. iAnnotate PDF is $10 on iTunes, but it’s worth every penny. I
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This podcast is a recording of Michael Wesch’s keynote presentation at the Heartland eLearning Conference in Edmond, Oklahoma, on March 8, 2011. This was a superb and provocative presentation about teaching, learning, lecturing, engagement, student interests, meaning, identity, recognition, and many other issues. In his keynote he suggested we need to move from simply getting
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Smartphones and mobile applications make the process of posting pictures to a personal “Photo365″ photo blog or a “Photo180″ class blog very easy. This is an example of “the ethic of minimal clicks” I highlight in my eBook, “Playing with Media.” Here are the steps I use to post a photo each day to my
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This is my part 2 of my notes from the Discovery Educators Network Fall Virtual Conference (“Tech or Treat”) on October 22, 2011. If you haven’t already, check out part 1. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. (I cooked brunch and ate with my family during Joe Brennan‘s session, “Digital Storytelling: Get it
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This is my part 1 of my notes from the Discovery Educators Network Fall Virtual Conference (“Tech or Treat”) on October 22, 2011. (Part 2 notes are also available) MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. First we heard from Traci Blazosky, sharing her presentation, “The Monster Mash-Up.” Resources from her preso are on
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Tomorrow on Saturday, October 22, 2011, I’ll be joining over 1000 educators from around the United States (and probably some other countries) in the Fall 2011 Discovery Educator’s Network Virtual Conference: Tech or Treat! I’ll be sharing a spotlight session at 1 pm Eastern / noon Central / 11 am Mountain / 10 am Pacific
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These are my notes from the NetPotential 2011 conference in Oklahoma City on October 21, 2011, sponsored by OneNet. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Opening comments from Glen Johnson, Chancellor of Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education: Initial funding for OneNet came from legislation in Oklahoma in 1992 5th significant increase in
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This is one of my favorite Oklahoma Texas classroom blogs. (Mrs. Dahl moved from Edmond!) I left several comments for students today. Will you take a few minutes to share some comments and ask the students some thoughtful questions too? Mrs. Dahl’s 2nd Grade http://kidblog.org/MrsDahlsClass4/ (Sent from Flipboard) – This post was delayed because I hadn’t entered
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In an effort to market my services as a digital learning consultant more effectively, and at the request of a school district interested in hiring me as a keynote speaker in 2012, I’ve created a one page PDF flyer about my professional speaking services. Wesley Fryer: Digital Learning Consultant (October 2011) Many thanks to Alison
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The three minute video, “How Search Works” from Google provides a nice overview of search engine basics, page rank, and online advertising. Consider sharing this with your students and discussing both the function as well as the power / importance / ethics involved in Internet search today. Google’s official YouTube channel has hundreds of other
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If you’re a school technology director or school administrator in Oklahoma, make plans now to attend NetPotential 2011: a FREE “innovations and solutions forum” sponsored by our state network, OneNet on October 21st and November 4th. Registration is free. The morning-only conference is described on the NetPotential website as: Join fellow administrators and IT directors
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