Thanks to the work of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and, ironically, the successful development of an iPhone application by NASA (bound by the Freedom of Information Act) the secret iPhone Developer agreement is now public. (PDF) EFF summarizes the key highlights of the agreement: Ban on Public Statements [by developers] App Store Only [for distribution]
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Walter Bender, former president of software and content for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation and founder of Sugar Labs, granted an interview in December 2009 to Wade Roush. Wade’s article is titled, “Sugar Gets Sweeter: Former OLPC Exec Walter Bender on Netbooks, E-books, Blueberry, and Cloudberry.” Bender gave the opening keynote address in
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These are my notes from Bob Lee’s session “Remix: Blending Creative Works to Show Mastery of Classroom Content” at the 2010 MACE (Mid-America Association for Computers in Education) Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. MY THOUGHTS AND FEEDBACK ARE IN ALL CAPS. All resoruces are on tinyurl.com/leeremix – bob [dot] lee [usd382 [dot] com Bob Lee is
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These are my notes from Jennifer Dorman’s presentation “Free Resources from Discovery Education” at the 2010 MACE (Mid-America Association for Computers in Education) Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. MY THOUGHTS AND FEEDBACK ARE IN ALL CAPS. This session was webcasted by Dean Mantz and live-blogged via CoverItLive. Those archives are embedded below. MACE 2010 DEN w/
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Hat tip to Silvia Tolisano for her tweet and post, “Skype in the News,” which highlighted Shanthi Venkataraman’s recent article for the Columbia News Service, “Skype Gives Students Window On The World.” Shanthi is a student from Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism. I am delighted the use of Skype by Deer Creek Public Schools
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I received an email today from an Oklahoma K-12 librarian and friend, who was sharing my son’s VoiceThread book review of “Eragon” by Christopher Paolini this week at school. She was concerned because some of the student commenters drew on the images (virtually of course) using the VoiceThread annotation options. This VoiceThread-based book review is
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Following the lead of Lucy Gray, I’ve created and shared a “Favorite Education Apps” curated list on Appolicious. These are my “top 10 education applications” for the iPod Touch and iPhone, for students in intermediate / secondary grades. All of the above apps DO work with the iPod Touch, with the exception of Pano which
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On Wednesday, February 17, 2010, the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus visited Yukon Public Schools in Oklahoma. This podcast features a seven minute interview with Ryan L’Esperance, an audio engineer who works and lives on the tour bus ten months of the year. According to the official website of the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus:
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Podcast340: On board the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus in Yukon, Oklahoma (interview with Ryan L’Esperance) [ 11:10 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3295)
If you haven’t seen the 30 second Intel advertisement, “Sponsors of Tomorrow,” check it out now. It’s an effective teaser video for the life work of Ajay Bhatt at Intel, where he currently serves as “Chief Client Platform Architect.” Ajay is the the co-inventor of USB. I referenced this in my presentation last Monday, “Communicating
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“The Night Before Valentine’s Day” is a four page book my six year old wrote today. She is REALLY into writing, and I want to encourage her as an author / illustrator as much as possible. After she shared this with us tonight, we snapped four pictures of the pages using my iPhone, uploaded those
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I invited Karen Montgomery to join the Great quotes about Learning and Change Flickr group, and she added images she’d previously uploaded into her “Quotes” Flickr set. Here are three of my favorites! H/T to Darren Kuropatwa, who reminded me about the Great quotes about Learning and Change Flickr group in his wonderful METC 2010 presentation,
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This podcast is a recording of Susan Andrews’ presentation, “Bring Curriculum Alive with SCRATCH” at the 2010 METC Conference. The official program description was: Are your students ready to meet 21st Century skills using a fun, simple and free computer programming language to create curriculum related projects? SCRATCH was designed to allow students to use
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Podcast338: Bring Curriculum Alive with SCRATCH by Susan Andrews and Students [ 40:05 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3597)
This evening our family attended an evening presentation at Wilson Elementary in Oklahoma City Public Schools for families entitled, “Arts Integration at Wilson Elementary.” The interactive workshop was led by Randy Barron, a “Kennedy Center Teaching Artist” who has been working with Wilson teachers the past three days as their interpretive dance integration coach and
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In bygone days of sailing on the open seas, a “smoking lamp” was lit to let sailors know when it was OK to smoke on their wooden ships. Today at ESSDACK in Hutchinson, Kansas, the “blogging light” tells staff members when it’s time to get creative and start blogging. Kevin Honeycutt shared a bit about
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This past fall when discussing 1:1 computing options at an educational technology conference, I asked an Apple rep the reasons schools should choose Macbooks over netbooks at this point. The person’s three part response was: Netbooks have weak batteries that won’t last more than two hours. Netbooks are flimsy / not rugged and won’t stand
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In the past couple of years, have you noticed how many fast food chain restaurants have undergone a complete facelift? This is a photograph, taken with the Pano application on my iPhone, of our Oklahoma City KFC restaurant on 23rd street. Wow! What a change from the “typical” fast food restaurant! The physical environment has
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As a blog reader, you’re most likely familiar with names like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Steve Ballmer. How about Jonney Shih? If you have no idea who Shih is, you’re probably not alone. Currently there is not an English WikiPedia article for him, despite the fact that his vision and work are reshaping the
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Cross-posted to the Storychasers blog. This week Oklahoma educators participated in our 29th “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” workshop since 2008, and created some fantastic digital stories about the history, geography, and people of our great state. Did you know Oklahoma is home to a growing black bear population and just had its first open hunting season
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I learned this morning video content from the September 30th symposium at UCO in Edmond, Oklahoma, “A New Renaissance: A Revolution of Creativity and Learning” is available for download via iTunes. Here is a direct link to the event’s iTunesU site, which is part of UCO’s iTunes site. A link to the event’s mobile site
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Our 15 year old babysitter recently showed my kids the YouTube video, Potter Puppet Pals in “The Mysterious Ticking Noise.” This 2 minute and 6 second video has had over 71 million views to date. If your students have access at home to YouTube, chances are good many of them have seen this. My 11
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