Month: October 2012

  • Innovative Learning Institute in Norman: Nov 6, 2012

    (Cross-posted from Oklahoma EDUshare) If you live in or near Oklahoma City, make plans to attend next Tuesday’s WONDERFUL Innovative Learning Institute in Norman on November 6th. (That’s also ELECTION DAY.) Year in and year out, ILI is always one of the best education, learning, and educational technology conferences available for Oklahoma educators. ILI is…

  • Notes from C-School (Creativity Boot Camp)

    These are my notes from a “dry run” / practice of C-School (Creativity School / Creativity Boot Camp) at Creative Oklahoma on October 30, 2012. Please register and join us for C-School in two weeks on Monday, November 12, 2012 in Oklahoma City! This full day workshop precedes the 2012 State of Creativity Forum on…

  • Custom Content Types and Gravity Forms in WordPress

    These are my notes from the October 29, 2012 OKC WordPress User’s Group meet up. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. (I arrived about 30 min late.) Kristen Wright of iThemes was the first presenter of the evening, discussing ‘Custom Post Types – What They Are and Why You Might Want to Use…

  • Create Printed Photo Books with your iPhone Using Keepsy

    I love digital photography, but to date have rarely printed my photos. My wife used to be an “analog” scrapbooker, and enjoyed putting together photo collages of prints taken “back in the day” before Flickr, Instagram and Facebook. This fall, my wife joined me on a couple trips to Colorado as well as Oregon for…

  • Pocket Casts: A Better Smartphone App for Podcatching (Podcast listening)

    I love listening to podcasts as well as creating them. (“Lightly edited” ones too!) When it comes to “podcatcher” software, I’ve shifted among a variety of desktop/laptop software programs as well as mobile apps over the past nine years in a continuing quest to find an easy/functional way to update/download podcasts for consumption on the…

  • Digital Storytelling with Pinnacle Studio for iPad

    (Cross-posted from iPad with Wes and PlayingWithMedia.com) If you want to edit and create videos on your iPad, consider using the Pinnacle Studio for iPad app. It may seem expensive for an iPad app at $10, but my formative experiences with it this weekend were VERY positive. IMHO it’s worth the money. While iMovie for…

  • At the Eastern Edge of our Continent: Wells Reserve at Laudholm (Maine)

    Today our family explored the Wells Reserve at Laudholm, which is “a National Estuarine Research Reserve with its headquarters listed on the National Register of Historic Places.” We don’t have estuaries in Oklahoma. According to the English WikiPedia, an estuary is: …a partly enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams…

  • Kansas Honor Flight: October 2012 (Narrated Slideshow)

    Last week my father had an opportunity to serve as a ‘guardian’ on a Kansas Honor Flight to Washington D.C. Approximately 25 World War II veterans flew from Kansas City and 25 from Wichita, Kansas, to our nation’s capitol to visit the National World War II Memorial as well as other historic sites. This past…

  • 2012 K12Online Conference Starts Today!

    The 2012 K12 Online Conference starts today. If you’re not familiar with it, K12Online is a great, FREE professional development opportunity featuring recorded videos you can view on your computer, smartphone, or tablet. The conference has four strands (two per week) and this week starts with the “Getting Started” and “Visioning New Curriculum” strands. Each…

  • Newsweek Going All Digital

    Newsweek Magazine announced this week it is discontinuing its print version at the end of the year. The key statements in the article for me were the following: Tablet-use has grown rapidly among our readers and with it the opportunity to sustain editorial excellence through swift, easy digital distribution—a superb global platform for our award-winning…