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  • Highlights from EduComm07 and Anaheim

    I’ve returned safely to Oklahoma from Anaheim, California and the EduComm07/InfoComm07 experience. Whenever I return from a conference, it is challenging to both publish podcast audio recordings from sessions and also digitize the notes I scribbled during the conference from time to time on pieces of paper, when my laptop was not open or available.…

  • Notes from Alan Kay’s keynote at EduComm07

    THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM ALAN KAY’S KEYNOTE ON 19 JUNE 2007 AT EDUCOMM. ALAN GAVE ME PERMISSION TO RECORD THIS AS AN AUDIO PODCAST, WHICH I WILL PUBLISH HERE LATER TONIGHT. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Alan Kay has an amazing bio: Amazing lifetime achievements. An amazing thinker, creator, and inventor. “the best…

  • Morning with Dr. Alan Kay

    2008 is off to a great start. I spent 1 hour and 13 minutes this morning listening to the challenging and visionary ideas of Dr. Alan Kay, who was a keynote speaker at the EduComm 2007 conference this past June in Anaheim, California. I also started the day at the YMCA gym several blocks away…

  • Report from EduComm 2007

    An article I wrote in June for District Administration magazine titled “Report from EduComm 2007” is now online at their site. The photo on page 2 of the article next to the heading “The Power of Digital Photography and Music” is of Scott Perloff (another EduComm ’07 presenter) giving me a fast lesson in MicroWorlds…

  • Podcast163: What Educators Need to Know About Web 2.0

    This podcast is a recording of a presentation I shared at EduComm 2007 on June 19, 2007, in Anaheim, California. We hear a great deal of buzz in the blogosphere about web 2.0 and the read/write web. Are these developments truly revolutionary for learning, or merely evolutionary? In this presentation I took on this question…

  • Podcast162: Martin Levin on Changing the Face of Our Educational Practice Using Web 2.0 Technologies

    This podcast features a presentation by Martin Levin at EduComm 2007 in Anaheim, California on June 20, 2007. Martin Is The Technology Director Of The Armidale School In Australia. The official description of this session was: Why not take advantage of a 1:1 laptop deployment and get kids to publish their work in a Web2.0…

  • Podcast161: Bruce Dixon on Planning, Funding and Sustaining Strategies for Successful 1:1 Computing

    This podcast features a presentation by Bruce Dixon, founder and president of the Anytime, Anywhere Learning Foundation. (www.aalf.org) Bruce was a speaker at EduComm 2007 on June 19, 2007, in Anaheim, California. Bruce has been involved with literally hundreds of one to one laptop initiatives around the world, and has started the AALF as a…

  • Podcast160: Alan Kay’s EduComm 2007 Keynote

    This podcast is a recording of Alan Kay’s wonderful keynote presentation on June 19, 2007, at the EduComm 2007 conference in Anaheim, California. Alan is an amazing thinker, inventor, teacher and innovator. His presentation, shared in Squeak, a programming language he invented, powerfully demonstrated how many adults around the world need to elevate their expectations…

  • Planning, Funding and Sustaining Strategies for Successful 1:1 Computing (K-12) by Bruce Dixon

    THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM BRUCE’S SESSION AT EDUCOMM 2007, I’M RECORDING AND HAVE PERMISSION FROM BRUCE TO POST LATER AS A PODCAST Bruce Dixon: Founder & President, Anytime, Anywhere Learning Foundation Anywhere Anytime Learning, nonprofit the hardware is the easy part – our mission really is about what happens next – we are still…

  • Prepare now for the 10,000+ channel future

    I had some very interesting conversations with folks on the SuperShuttle ride from the airport to the hotel this afternoon/evening in Anaheim. The gentleman sitting next to me was a pastor from Louisiana, originally from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. When I asked him where in Vietnam he was from, he actually identified his city…