This morning I accompanied my 5 year old daughter, Rachel, on a school field trip to the Orr Family Farm, an “Agri-Tainment” destination in south Oklahoma City. One of the learning highlights for me was seeing this metal sign of “Hobo Signs and Symbols,” posted beside the narrow gauge railway at the farm. The history
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This evening I learned about the YouTube video “Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it)” by listening to Justin Karkow’s “Digital Storytelling Frame by Frame” presentation on the 2009 Nebraska Educational Technology Association Podcast channel. As a big Star Wars fan, I found this remix quite amusing and fun. Nice use of Final
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Could this road sign photograph have been taken in or near your community? [Original Image Link] Hat tip to Stephen King (@Kicode) for sharing the link to Atom Smasher’s “Highway Sign Generator.” Technorati Tags: school, reform, education, change, funny, humor, leadership
Thanks to Orange County, California, educator Dennis Grice, I learned last night and today at ITSC 2009 about the “Film on the Fly” digital storytelling contest: A “Mobile Phone Video Challenge.” Karen Mongomery had mentioned this to me awhile back but I had not seen any of the videos submitted to the contest until today.
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I’ve actually lived this cartoon several times at official meetings in the past two years. Somehow, having a laptop in front of you makes the reality of cognitive multi-tasking more tangibly visible to some leaders. When we’ve been in class or in meetings, we’ve always had trouble as human beings maintaining a singular focus on
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In this rather amusing advertisement for Hitachi, Mr. T claims “intelligence is never in the network.” Apparently Mr. T has not been introduced to the concepts of connectivism. Even though this video script for the the actor formerly known as Laurence Tureaud may not reflect a basic understanding of connectivist learning theory, I do like
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I had a meeting this week at the Oklahoma Department of Education, and I found the following signs in the hallway on the third floor of the building rather humorous. First, there were several boxes of bags sitting outside one of the offices. Apparently, at least a few people felt the availability of the bags
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Feeling like you can’t learn new tricks with educational technology tools at school? Do you know other teachers who have similar sentiments? Perhaps you can try and recommend some of the top ten downloads from the British site My Mobile Guru. The following popular topics might be appropriate and needed at the next technology-related workshop
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This is too good to not share. Last weekend our family attended the wonderful wedding of my cousin Devin Henley and his beautiful bride, Andrea. This evening as my wife and I watched “The Red Violin” (a great flick, btw) I caught up on my photo and video uploads to Flickr. I’m in the habit
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This podcast features a recording with Steven Smith, a wonderful re-enactor of Benjamin Franklin, at the 2008 Oklahoma A+ Schools Conference on August 1st. In the character of Benjamin Franklin, Steven recounts historial events of his life as an inventor, statesman, author and civic activist. If there is a more memorable and impactful way to
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Podcast270: A Conversation with Benjamin Franklin- Inventor, Statesman, Author and Civic Activist [ 21:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3937)It is thankfully not often my heart actually stops beating momentarily after clicking a mouse button. Unfortunately, one of these moments happened this evening when I was updating my online vitae. Have you ever accidentally overwritten a computer file you did NOT have properly backed up? I have. A few of those instances are burned
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Our fourth day of stopmotion filmmaking fun at our church’s fine arts camp ended today, and our final completed video count stands at 22. None of these films tell complete stories, and many are pretty random, but they do represent a great deal of learning, work, and fun! I published all our videos this evening
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How many BAD PowerPoint slide decks have you seen and been forced to endure, relative to truly compelling multimedia presentations? My lifetime PPT history includes (unfortunately) far more bad examples than good ones. Perhaps authors of PowerPoint (or more generically we should probably say, “multimedia presentation slideshows”) could benefit from Comedian Don McMillian’s suggestions: My
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I love taking pictures, and I love Flickr. This evening as we supervised trick or treating for our three kids in our neighborhood (we definitely had a record “haul” for candy) I took photos of lots of jack o lanterns. I then joined the “Great Pumpkin” jack o lantern photo pool on Flickr, and contributed
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Yes, that watch actually does read 12:05 AM. Saturday AND Sunday’s KSU versus CU football matchup had just finished: Made with FD’s Flickr Toys.
Whoa – this just in via Karen Montgomery: Beware the dangers of multi-tasking! This is a great video to use for teacher professional development– for tips on downloading an offline copy of this to share, see my post “Capturing offline copies of YouTube videos.”
Last night when chatting with Miguel Guhlin about ideas for sharing with and teaching administrators about technology leadership, he shared the following videos I hadn’t seen or considered before. I’ve added these to a new del.icio.us tag I’ve started, presentationvideos. For videos on YouTube and TeacherTube, I’ve added those to my respective favorite playlists. (My
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Okay, I’m going to stick with the talk show and Johnny Carson analogy I used in my first post. My first guest is a comedian from Canada. He’s a former educator and recently appeared on Last Comic Standing. Please welcome Mr. Gerry Dee: BTW Wes, I added a humor section. He’ll never have me back!
