In response to Kent Chesnut’s request for more information about how I’m integrating technology in lessons with our 5th grade Sunday School students at church this year, I recorded an hour-long podcast in the car and posted it to Eyes Right this evening.
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Update on Alana Warfel and Hollow band
A month ago I wrote about Alana Warfel and her Christian rock band “Hollow” in the blog post “Surprise, your preschool teacher is a rock star!” In that post I mentioned her band was looking forward to the GMA Music in the Rockies conference both for the learning experiences it would offer them as a
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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
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Reflecting on helping kids develop their own ethical filters
I’ve posted a new podcast for “Digital Dialog” that I created this past week with my wife, Shelly. Our conversation focuses on chapter 1 of the 2007 book “Children’s Ministry in the 21st Century” by Craig Jutila, Jim Wideman, and Pat Verbal. Link to our “Digital Dialog” Ning social network on digitaldialog.ning.com. I had previously
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Digital Dialog: Join the conversation!
We had the third session of a new parenting class my wife and I are teaching on Wednesday nights today, and things went really well. I just posted the recorded session as a podcast (it’s an hour long) and updated the wiki links for the resources we discussed. I listened to Bob Sprankle, Cheryl Oakes
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Google Tools and Digital Dialog
I’ve created two new wiki resources for conference presentations and workshops I’ll be teaching in the weeks ahead. These are just draft versions, so if you have any links or related resources to suggest I’d love to hear about them! Please leave them as comments here. The first is a presentation I’ll share at the
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Thoughts on digital discipline
A historic first: My wife Shelly participated in her first-ever podcast this evening, which I have published on Eyes Right as “Podcast05: Reflections on our 40 Day Evening Technology Use Fast and Digital Discipline.” Technorati Tags: christianity, marriage, fasting, relationships
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Gifts from Christopher Paolini
WARNING: SOME MILD PLOT SPOILERS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS POST. Last night I finished reading “Eldest” by Christopher Paolini, the second book in his “Inheritance” trilogy that follows the book “Eragon “ which was released as a major motion picture last month. These are a few reflections on the book and the book series to
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Eragon and WikiPedia extended learning
SPOILER WARNING: If you haven’t read Eragon or seen the movie, beware that in this blog post I’m including details that reveal plot elements of both. It’s almost Christmas, but I’ve already received what may be the most precious gift I’ll receive from any of my family members this year. This morning when I woke
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Good insights from Madeleine Albright
I listened to the podcast “The Mighty and the Almighty” by Madeleine Albright today in the car, and I found her reflections and responses to questions from the audience insightful and thought provoking. Her view that the decision for the U.S. to go to war in Iraq was a decision of choice rather than necessity
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Images of and Reflections on 9-11
SC Eagle (a US soldier stationed in Germany who lived in NYC on 9-11-2001) has posted a home video to his blog of a video he and his wife took looking outside their NYC apartment building that fateful day. Close up footage, with the quiet voices of regular citizens responding to the most horrific terrorist
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Eyes Right blog launched
I’m pleased to announce this evening after many weeks (if not months) of thought and planning, I have launched a new team blogging effort I’m quite enthused about. “Eyes Right: A Team Blog About The Christian Journey of Faith” is now online, and I’ll be posting my thoughts related to Christianity, faith, and religion over
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Provoking imaginations
I decided last week that I am going to start a second blog so that I can share my ideas relating to faith, Christianity, and my own journey of spiritual development in a separate place– connected but different than this blog. There are a diverse array of things I want to write and blog about,
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My journey of faith to Jesus
I received the following in an email about a week ago, and have wanted to respond, but a lot has been going on and I didn’t want to do so without some thoughtful consideration. What I am going to write tonight might not be of interest and may even offend some readers, but avoiding those
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Respond to DOPA with Moodle at your church
Lots of buzz in the edublogosphere over DOPA– many people are asking the questions, “What should we do? What should I do personally?” Writing your Senators is a good idea, and a variety of edubloggers have been working the last few days to create sites and tools to help others take action. This morning after
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Rejecting hate, inviting dialog
I think my post from April, “Racist games teach wrong values,” holds the current record for most comments on a single post for my blog: As of tonight there are 12. I know that is not a ton by the standards of some– but for me that is a lot of comments. Several of them
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Great first weekend in Edmond
Well, this has been a great initial weekend in Edmond, Oklahoma and the Oklahoma City area. Driving out here on Friday night, we saw the most amazing display of lightning I have ever seen in my life. Evidently the radar showed the line of storms extending from southern Oklahoma all the way north to Nebraska–
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Dan Brown: Historical obfuscator
I know, the title of this post may sound like I am prepping you for a challenging game of Scrabble, but bear with me… According to Dictionary.com, “obfuscate” means: To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand: “A great effort was made… to obscure or obfuscate the truth” (Robert
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Superb lego stopmotion: “The Good Samaritan”
Dean Shareski has posted an outstanding lego stop-motion movie that a 15 year old teenager he knows (Joel) created, titled “The Good Samaritan.” Superb work! Having created a few stopmotion movies myself with my son that look MUCH more amateurish than this one, I am quite impressed. Smooth animation, great use of sound effects, and
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So what does Dan Brown believe?
The book and movie “The Da Vinci Code” combines fact with fiction in ways that are likely to confuse many, but hopefully will cause some to ask as well as answer worthwhile questions. One question I have is, what does Dan Brown (the author of the book) actually believe about the key assertions of his
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