Month: October 2005
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1001 for Flickr and Digital Photo Frame Idea
1001 is a desktop flickr client currently in beta for Mac OS X. Really amazing. You can access photo streams of your existing Flickr contacts and groups, but also add custom photo streams for tags you want to track. This is immensely powerful. Using RSS, this is “pull” technology in action for photostreams. The program…
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2nd Grade podcast
Check out the first student podcast by Mrs. Mills’ 2nd graders! Program time is 6 min: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MillsMurfeePodcasts The piano music was played directly into Garageband by one of the 2nd graders, and the other music was composed with Garageband by another student. 🙂
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Authentic knowledge products?
I was asked tonight to further define what I mean by “authentic knowledge products” in my podcasts and writings. Here is my answer: By authentic knowledge products, I am referring to the creation of different products by students for class assignments that have an authentic audience and a clearly defined, worthwhile purpose. These could be…
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Podcast12: Defining and Measuring Digital Literacy
This podcast features a skypecast interview with Dr. Chris Moersch, Director and Co-Founder of the National Business Education Alliance and principal investigator and creator of the internationally-recognized LoTi (Level of Technology Implementation) Project. We discuss the definition of digital literacy and digital fluency, as well as considering ways people need to change their perceptions of…
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EndNote Workshop: Researcher’s Bibliography Tools
EndNote Workshop: Researcher’s Bibliography Tools Heide Mansouri TTU Teaching Learning and Technology Center Shortcourse 6 October 2005 These are my typed notes I took during the workshop. Access the handouts (requires TTU eRaider login): http://www.depts.ttu.edu/itts/training/shortcourses/ Endnote is – an electronic bibliography and manuscript maker program – provides a way to search online bibliographic databases and…
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Podcast Resources
I have added a new resource to my website: “Podcast Resources.” This is also accessible from the right sidebar of my blog website, under the “pages” subtitle.
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Recess and Computing at odds?
Longer post than usual here, but these ideas are critical for educators and parents to think about and act on. Complex issues, but also important assumptions that should be recognized and understood in context. Lowell Monke’s thoughtful article “Charlotte’s Webpage: Why Children Shouldn’t Have the World at Their Fingertips” is a marvelous read and a…
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Exponential blog growth
The documented growth in managed Feedburner blogs is eyeopening, and a visual representation of what it means to live in the elbow of exponential growth, as I discussed in my 9th Podcast on the purposes of my writing project, “Publish At Will.” This is not a linear growth pattern: it is exponential. Wikipedia has a…
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Great history resource suggestions from Tom Hale
Many thanks to Tom McHale in Flemington, New Jersey for his comment on my Veteran Oral History podcast and blog post this week! Tom’s team teaching approach combining Social Studies and English reminds me of one of my favorite classes from high school: the “combo class” taught by Mickey Bogart and Carol Adams at Manhattan…
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FeedBlitz email list subscriptions available!
I am thrilled to learn that Feedburner subscribers can now permit anyone to subscribe to free email updates of blog postings, with a new free service called Feedblitz. I have activated this service for my blog, and am providing three different email subscription options. I also have details about the “Educational Technology posts only” email…