Moving at the Speed of Creativity

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  • Digital Citizenship Lesson from Gilbert Gottfried: The (former) Voice of the Aflac Duck

    Chances are your students may not recognize the name Gilbert Gottfried, but they all recognize his voice. Until he posted controversial tweets this week, Gottfried was the official voice of the Aflac duck. photo © 2005 Olaf Gradin | more info (via: Wylio)   See the posts, “Gilbert Gottfried Apologizes for Offensive Japan Tweets” and…

  • iOS Apps for Productivity and Fun: The List!

    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 have agreed to assist me as workshop facilitators! These apps, linked to…

  • Sting on Risk and Challenge

    Enroute to the 2010 Christa Mcauliffe Technology Conference in Manchester, New Hampshire, I read Anthony DeCurtis’ article “Rock n Roll Yogi” in the November 2010 issue of Delta Sky magazine. In the article, Anthony quotes Sting as saying: I don’t think that anything that doesn’t involve a risk is worth doing. There needs to be…

  • Do the Mash: Mixing Tools to Create a Custom Cloud-Based Learning Tool

    These are my notes from Stephen Best‘s presentation, “Do the Mash: Mixing Tools to Create a Custom Cloud-Based Learning Tool” at the “Teaching and Learning in the Cloud Conference” in Holland, Michigan on 21 Oct 2010. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. All of Stephen’s resources are listed on his conference session page. THIS IS…

  • Heartland eLearning Conference: PI4BL Workshop

    This morning I’m sharing a 3 hour pre-conference workshop at the Heartland eLearning Conference at UCO in Edmond, Oklahoma, on Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning. This workshop is customized for eLearning specialists and online instructors. To preserve past versions of this workshop, Karen Montgomery and I are archiving those versions as separate, saved pages on…

  • K12Online Conference Echo Webcasts

    The K-12 Online Conference is an organization, event, and community every educator should recognize. FREE, high-quality, on-demand professional development can be hard to come by, and K-12 Online now includes over 170 outstanding video presentations in its archives. While the conference has taken place the past four years in October (2006, 2007 and 2008) and…

  • I Need My Teachers To Learn 2.0

    Kevin Honeycutt has published an updated YouTube version of his wonderful song, “I Need My Teachers To Learn.” Instead of using video for the b-roll footage, his friend Rae helped him use still images synchronized to the music. It’s just over three minutes long, take some time today and check it out: In many ways…

  • Learning from Angela, Kern and Konrad

    These are my notes from several K12Online09 presentation videos I watched this evening riding the Heartland Flyer Amtrak train from Fort Worth, Texas, back to Oklahoma City on my iPhone. This post was blogged on my netbook running Win7 using free Windows Live Writer software, downloadable from Microsoft as part of Windows Live Essentials. A…

  • K12Online09 on The Heartland Flyer

    It is January 1, 2010, and I am riding on the Heartland Flyer Amtrak train from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth, Texas. I have been watching presentations from the 2009 K-12 Online Conference on my iPhone. Thanks to the available podcast channels in iTunes and the presentation transcoding functionality provided by the conference Blip.tv account,…

  • Technical troubleshooting and tinkering are essential skills

    Like it or not, technologies are a part of our lives today and show no signs of completely going away. While I resonate with those advocating for more time spent outdoors in unstructured environments, dream of working for hours in my own garden someday, and often have new-Luddite sentiments about a variety of topics relating…