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David Jakes on Learning Spaces (April 2016)
David Jakes (@djakes) is not only one of the kindest people you’ll ever meet, he’s also an amazingly knowledgeable and articulate educator with fantastic insights into the design and redesign of learning spaces. He recently spent two years working with The Third Teacher (@thethirdteacher) helping organizations worldwide design and redesign learning spaces, and he’s continuing work in…
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Lessons Learned About Enhanced or Multimedia EPUB eBook Validation
We are living in the midst of a “sea change” for books, literacy, reading and writing. The way in which official standards for EPUB eBooks are transitioning to support embedded video and audio files provide vivid a case in point. I spent most of this afternoon and evening debugging and fixing the enhanced (or “multimedia”)…
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Publishing eBooks to Amazon and iTunes iBookstore: Learning Curve Continues
Yesterday was a day of great joy in the Fryer household: At long last, the eBook I’ve been rather obsessively writing for the past few months (“Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing“) was finally published in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany in the respective Kindle stores for each country. I…
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Reading the Fine Print: Considering Different eBook Publishing Options for the iBookstore
At long last I’ve finished writing my first eBook, “Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing.” I’m going to publish two eBook versions: a “multimedia EPUB” with 17 embedded videos / screencasts, and a standard eBook version without the videos. E-Ink powered eReaders like Kindle don’t support embedded videos. Lulu has an excellent comparative…
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Surviving Dachau, Liberating Mauthausen
In October of 2005, Dachau Concentration Camp survivor, Eva Hance, and Mauthausen Concentration Camp Liberator, Mark Geeslin, shared a 90 minute presentation with students in Lubbock, Texas, as well as other parts of the United States connected via videoconference to the International Cultural Center of Texas Tech University. That videoconference was recorded, but until yesterday…
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Accessing Citrix from Ubuntu
I’m in Allen, Texas, today, and helped my brother in law install Ubuntu on a very old Windows system he has, to extend its useful life. We needed to see if it is possible to login to the Citrix system used by the Allen school district, however, and it turns out this IS possible. We…
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WiFi Connectivity Options at Starbucks, AT&T hotspots, and Rural Broadband over Power Lines
My wife is a much more regular coffee drinker than I am, so it seems a bit ironic I was the first person in our family to purchase a “Starbucks Gold card.” The card can be used as a gift/money card for Starbucks coffee and gives you a 10% discount on purchases, but the feature…
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Want a successful laptop initiative? Better choose Mac laptops!
A friend recently let me know about the July 2008 report “Third-Year (2006-2007) Traits of Higher Technology Immersion Schools and Teachers” published by the Texas Center for Educational Research for the Texas Education Agency. While the report points out that three of the four “high immersion” sites in TxTIP are using Apple Macintosh laptops instead…
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links for 2008-07-21
Touchspin’s Interactive Periodic Table: Main Page Hi. You’ve reached Touchspin’s Interactive Periodic Table page. The highlight of this site is the interactive periodic table. Some other sites have more in depth information on chemistry, but I double-dog-dare-you to find anyplace with a better interact (tags: chemistry science DigitalCurriculum curriculum) H. Stephen Glenn bio of H.…