Merry Christmas! As a Christmas treat, I’ve created two discount codes I invite you to use and share. Today and tomorrow only (through midnight PST, December 25th) anyone worldwide can download any of my “Playing with Media” podcasts for FREE instead of paying 99¢ each. Available sixty minute podcasts / screencasts include: Narrated Slideshows iPhoneography
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(cross-posted from learn.playingwithmedia.com) A recording of Wesley Fryer’s 68 minute videoconference on December 12, 2011, “Narrated Slideshows,” is available as a 99¢ download. This is a high quality screencast published at 1280 x 720 pixel resolution, and is 1.6 GB in size. (A high speed Internet connection is required for download.) The workshop description was:
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(cross-posted from the K-12 Online Conference blog) Please mark your calendars and adjust your schedules to join presenters, participants, and organizers of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference in an “AfterGlow” Closing Live Event on Monday, December 12th at 6:00pm PT / 7:00pm MT / 8:00pm CT / 9:00pm ET. If you’re located outside North American
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(cross-posted from k12onlineconference.org) Please join organizers of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference on Classroom 2.0 Live this Saturday, November 12, 2011 for an invigorating conversation about this year’s conference! Local times in North America for this live webinar will be: 9:00am Pacific 10:00am Mountain 11:00am Central 12:00pm Eastern Use this time converter link to determine
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This is my part 2 of my notes from the Discovery Educators Network Fall Virtual Conference (“Tech or Treat”) on October 22, 2011. If you haven’t already, check out part 1. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. (I cooked brunch and ate with my family during Joe Brennan‘s session, “Digital Storytelling: Get it
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This is my part 1 of my notes from the Discovery Educators Network Fall Virtual Conference (“Tech or Treat”) on October 22, 2011. (Part 2 notes are also available) MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. First we heard from Traci Blazosky, sharing her presentation, “The Monster Mash-Up.” Resources from her preso are on
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Tomorrow on Saturday, October 22, 2011, I’ll be joining over 1000 educators from around the United States (and probably some other countries) in the Fall 2011 Discovery Educator’s Network Virtual Conference: Tech or Treat! I’ll be sharing a spotlight session at 1 pm Eastern / noon Central / 11 am Mountain / 10 am Pacific
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We had 347 virtual participants for our panel presentation, “Navigating the Road Ahead: A Guided Discussion of Ebooks in K-12 Libraries,” in the October 12, 2011 webinar “EBOOKS The New Normal: how libraries are leveraging the eBook opportunity.” These are the six questions I answered individually (with text that I saved) during the actual webinar.
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You’re hereby invited to join in a free webinar on Tuesday, September 20th at 11 am Eastern / 10 am Central / 9 am Mountain / 8 am Pacific hosted by eTechOhio in Elluminate Live / Blackboard Collaborate. This is the direct link to join the session using your web browser. (The link will be
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Missed the opening keynote at the 2011 International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE) conference last week in Philadelphia? No worries, ISTE and John Medina have generously posted his speech about “Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School” in its entirety on YouTube! The entire video is 76 minutes
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Please join my daughter, Sarah, and I, along with Dean Shareski and Charles Farrel, as special guests on the January 6th webcast of Seedlings on EdTechTalk. (That’s tomorrow night!) Seedlings is a wonderful, FREE, weekly audio webcast (with a text backchannel) hosted by Bob Sprankle, Alice Barr and Cheryl Oakes– made possible by the fantastic
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In preparation for next week’s face-to-face and online workshop on December 29th, “iOS Apps for Productivity and Fun (iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch)” I’ve created an accompanying handout which includes categorized lists of applications we’ll be sharing. I say “we” because my kids
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On Wednesday, December 29, 2010, you’re invited to attend (in person or virtually) a hands-on workshop I’ll lead in Oklahoma City titled, “iPhone & iPad Apps for Fun & Productivity.” Workshop registration is available via EventBrite. The workshop description is: Bring your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch to this hands-on, interactive workshop as together we
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The location has changed for my upcoming December 14th and 15th Google Tools Workshops in Oklahoma City. These BYOL (bring your own laptop) workshops will be held at the Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative, located downtown across from the Federal Building at 723 N. Hudson Ave. View Larger Map Currently, just 5 seats are still available
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I’m pleased to announce virtual attendance and participation options are now available for the December 14th workshop I’m offering in Oklahoma City on “Google Documents, Spreadsheets, Forms, Presentations and Drawing,” and the December 15th workshop on “Google Maps and Google Earth.” Discounted online registration is available for groups (including more than one person) as well
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At the request of Leigh Zeitz (Dr. Z) at the University of Northern Iowa, I created a short (5 minute) introduction and overview to the 2010 K-12 Online Conference which started today. Leigh and others in Iowa have made arrangements for several past presenters of K-12 Online to skype into their upcoming ITEC conference in
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Last month on September 18th, the first student-organized TEDx event took place in Redmond, Washington. Some of the student presentations are now available on the TEDxRedmond website, under the “live” tab. These include the following nine minute presentation and song by Zoe Sprankle, who is the daughter of noted Maine educator Bob Sprankle. The title
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As many episodes of iCarly as my daughters have watched in the past couple of years, it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that they’ve wanted to create their own web show. They created four episodes this past summer, and asked me to assist them in creating a website (www.thezebraprint.com) and associated YouTube and Twitter
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The K-12 Online Conference is the best free professional development opportunity for educators worldwide of which I’m aware. The call for 2010 conference volunteers has been posted. photo credit: woodleywonderworks Please read over the post, consider the different committees, and submit the provided Google form to volunteer. The conference starts in mid-October, so there’s only
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The Midwest Education Technology Conference (METC) is held each year in St Louis, Missouri in February. This year, I was honored to join Darren Kuropatwa, Angela Maiers, David Jakes, Ian Jukes, Gail Lovely, Leslie Fisher, Deneen Frazier-Brown, Scott Meech, Howie DiBlasi, and many others presenting at the conference. From August 9 through August 27, 2010,
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