Dan Lovejoy is a graduate student in the Technical Communication and Rhetoric program at Texas Tech University, and lives in the Oklahoma City area. Dan interviewed me and several others for his 7 minute, 40 second micro-documentary “Real/Virtual.” Among others, he asked participants over video to respond to the following questions: Have you had an
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Telecommunications convergence is a topic with which I’ve grown increasingly familiar over the past few years, and I address frequently in blog posts, workshops, and conference keynote presentations. Convergence has BIG implications for learning. As digital devices become increasingly ubiquitous, people of all ages will have opportunities to access digital content (including video) in more
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I unilaterally declared a “no screens” afternoon today at our house, and the results were great although my announcement was initially not enthusiastically received. My wife and I have noticed that left to their own devices with access to Internet-connected laptops, television and to a lesser extent our family Wii, our children could easily spend
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I saw the Nokia video advertisement “The Fourth Screen” yesterday for the first time when I watched Chris Abani’s TED Talk “Telling stories of our shared humanity” on my iPhone at lunch. The ad plays at the end of the TED talk. Here is the 2 minute and 22 second ad by itself on YouTube:
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It is good but also somewhat tough to be back online after a full week offline in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. If we hadn’t returned home so late last night, driving through and between thunderstorms across the Texas panhandle and Oklahoma, I would have recorded a short video podcast to reflect on the
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This podcast is a recorded interview with Richard Schumann of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, who was the keynote speaker at the Oklahoma State Department of Education’s annual Social Studies and Fine Arts conference on February 2, 2008. The title of the conference was Revolutionary Matters: “The Virginia Firebrand of the American Revolution.” Schumann portrays Patrick
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Welcome to episode four of the Technology Shopping Cart podcast where educational innovation thrives on the food of creative ideas! This week Karen Montgomery and Wesley Fryer host an interview with Steve Muth and Ben Papell, the co-Founders of the VoiceThread website and web 2.0 tool. Steve and Ben discuss the background for how VoiceThread
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Podcast218: Technology Shopping Card Podcast04 - An Interview with Steve Muth and Ben Papell (Co-Founders of VoiceThread) Discussing the new VoiceThread for Education [ 1:11:40 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (7668)When I was growing up and especially when I was in high school considering college options, the thought of attending a top-tier school like Stanford, Harvard, or Princeton certainly crossed my mind. Although I had been encouraged by several to pursue an engineering college track (because of the flexible preparation it would provide in equipping
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Andy Carvin’s post “An Open Letter About Cyberbullying” is a reasonably toned response to Mathew Honan of Wired Magazine’s recent article “Beware These Six Lamest Social Networks.” Honan takes unnecessary aim at the “Stop Cyberbullying” Ning which Andy helps administer. It’s sad to see a mainstream media source author take a potshot at an excellent
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Thanks to my uncle, Ron Henley, for alerting me to a new report supported by NSBA (the National School Boards Association) and others which supports many of the contentions I’ve been advancing for over a year in presentations about safe digital social networking. According to David Cassel’s August 7th article about the report, “Schoolboards: net
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One of my favorite rhetorical questions to ask during workshops is, “Is anyone here NOT receiving enough email?” I don’t know an adult soul who spends time online (my own children and other kids who don’t yet have email accounts are not counted in that group) who suffers from a LACK of email. Remember “the
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I’ve written a new post on the TechLearning blog titled “Farewell, linear conversations?” Technorati Tags: blog, blogging, luddite, web2.0
The winter ice storm in Oklahoma continued today canceling (again) Frontier airline flights from Denver, so I joined my cousin and a Denver friend in a day of unexpected snow skiing at Copper Mountain. Thankfully, we were able to redeem our Frontier ticket stubs for half-price lift tickets (actually buy 1, get 1 free, but
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This podcast features a recorded discussion with Dr. Andrew Wertheimer and Jessamyn West at the conclusion of the 2006 Hawaii Library Association’s annual conference. Our topic was the ways in which learners should, perhaps in the spirit of Neil Postman, continually think critically about new technologies touted as the next great trend for libraries and
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Podcast105: Thinking Critically About Library and School Technologies [ 29:16 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1713)Joe Makley shared a thoughtful comment last night to my post from December 2005 on “Educational Banner Evangelism.” Joe is questioning advocacy for constructivism and empowering teachers without accountability and at least minimum expectations based on identified standards. He wrote: The point being, we still have standards, and they are more important than ever. It
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What a great treat it has been to be here in Hawaii at the state librarian’s conference to present, listen, share and learn! I presented three times today, which was a bit exhausting, but it was also a lot of fun. I was able to take in several fantastic sessions given by others too. The
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I’ve posted some new thoughts to the Google Education blog (“Infinite Thinking Machine”) in a post I titled, “Digital refugees and bridges.”
Milton Chen has a great article in the latest EduTopia titled, “Curing Nature Deficit Disorder.” Like Milton, my wife read the book “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder†by Richard Louv, the same book that inspired him to write this new article. I have written on this topic myself several
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I sometimes feel I am an edublogosphere intelligence agent, fortunate to often be slipped new bits of “intel” from others “in the know” that I’m able to pass along. Rather than write these up in a classified “eyes only” report for higher ups, however, I’m able to share these with the world via this blog!
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