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  • Migrating from Podcast Generator to WordPress and Podlove

    In December of 2010, I created “Fuel 4 Educational Change Agents” as a secondary podcast channel to complement my primary “Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcast” channel. I created this secondary channel of “no-edit” and lightly-edited audio recordings using the free, open source software program Podcast Generator, which I learned about doing research for…

  • Transliteracy is the New Language Arts

    Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.

  • Creating a Worldwide Literacy Community by Pam Allyn

    These are my notes from Pam Allyn‘s Friday keynote, “Creating a Worldwide Literacy Community,” at the 2013 ICE Conference in St. Charles, Illinois. Pam is @pamallyn on Twitter. Pam’s website is “Lit World: Be The Story.” MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Now is the most exciting time to be an educator! We…

  • 5 Lessons Learned for iPad Event Videographers Publishing to YouTube

    This morning our church had a congregational “town hall” meeting. Since this was a very important meeting and not all our members could attend, I volunteered to record the event and share it online on YouTube. Expecting the meeting to last about an hour, I came prepared with my iPad2, a Makayama iPad Tripod Mount,…

  • Al Jazeera, Arab Spring, & Opposing Extremism in Our Midst in the USA

    This evening I watched a wonderful, informative and challenging TEDtalk by Bobby Ghosh: “Why global jihad is losing.” This is an important TEDtalk to watch for several reasons. (It was filmed in September 2012.) According to his official TED bio: Bobby Ghosh is an Editor-at-Large at Time magazine, where he covers conflict, global affairs and…

  • Changing “Classroom Normal” with Interactive Blogging

    Most K-12 classrooms in the United States today don’t use interactive blogs. By “interactive,” I mean a blog website which permits posts from students as well as the teacher, and comments from blog visitors as well as class members. As I explained in my post earlier this week on the iThemes education blog, “Why WordPress?…

  • Leveraging YouTube to Tell The Story of Your Non-Profit

    (Cross-posted as a slightly secularized version from Eyes Right) Upendo Kids International is a mission outreach non-profit based in Edmond, Oklahoma, which sends teams each summer to Kenya to show God’s love and kindness through a variety of activities. This evening, I had an opportunity to show the nineteen members of the June 2012 Upendo…

  • Turn On Comment Moderation on a YouTube Video

    Yesterday during iPad Media Camp in Edmond, Oklahoma, teachers created their own YouTube channels and learned how to shoot, edit and publish videos to YouTube using an iPad. One of the important things we should do as teachers when we publish videos to YouTube is turn ON comment moderation. Yesterday I created a four minute…

  • Educational Technology Podcasts from Kansas City: Storytelling and Visual Literacy Activity Ideas

    Yesterday I shared two breakout sessions in Kansas City, Kansas, at the district-wide “Inspiring Excellence Conference” to wrap up the year. I used a Sony ICD PX312 digital voice recorder (linked on the “Digital Backpack Contents” entry on the Storychasers FAQ page) to create “no-edit” recordings of these sessions, and last night published them to…

  • Configure KidBlog for Safe, Moderated, Interactive Student Blogging & Commenting

    (cross-posted from playingwithmedia.com) This semester I’m working on a contract basis (thanks to federal grant dollars) as an “innovative instructional coach” in Yukon Public Schools. This morning I helped one of our sixth grade teachers facilitate her first lessons using free, ad-free class blogs hosted by KidBlog.org. In this post, I’ll share some of the…