Month: November 2006
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Happy Feet lacks a good storyline
This past Friday night I went and saw the new movie Happy Feet with my family. I am not a regular movie-goer these days, DVD movies have become my usual way of enjoying films now– I think the only movies I saw this past summer at the theater were “Cars” and “Pirates of the Caribbean…
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Podcast101: Webcast, Podcast, Sakai and the Millennial student
Dr. Victor Edmonds serves as director of Educational Technology Services at UC Berkeley. This podcast is a recording of Dr. Edmond’s presentation at the Hawaii Library Association’s annual conference on November 10, 2006. Show notes for this podcast include: The Sakai Open Source Course Management System Educational Technology Services at UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Webcasts…
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The Internet as a World Wonder
Good Morning America “and a group of experts” have declared “The Internet” one of the NEW seven wonders of the world. (Thanks to Katie Beedon for the link.) From connections between military family members half a world apart to cyberdating, the article heralds the ability of the Internet to connect people and bring them closer…
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More on S&P PD
I posted some additional thoughts on “spray and pray” professional development models over at Techlearning earlier today.
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China, WikiPedia, Flickr, Web 2.0 and The Tank Man
I was pleased to learn today (via Jeremy Goldkorn) that China has chosen to unblock WikiPedia. Andrew Lih theorizes the reason for the unblock is that WikiPedia is value neutral, and the Chinese government is glimpsing the constructive power of the read/write web. He writes: I believe it was because of the argument Jimmy Wales…
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Tech Chick Tips podcast interview
The Tech Chicks (Anna Adam and Helen Mowers) have posted a podcast interview they conducted with me two weeks ago at the Beyond4Walls conference in the Dallas area. (Episode 12) Their questions were: What do you regard as your most essential piece of equipment for podcasting? Why did you start podcasting? What are the two…
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IP, the Information Age and YouTube
Today’s NPR segment, “On YouTube, Popularity Can Be a Curse” discussed intellectual property issues in our era of YouTube-posted videos and antiquated copyright laws. One of the main points was that as YouTube videos become “viral hits,” they often draw higher levels of scrutiny which can result in legal demands to take them offline– especially…
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No feed = no blog
Kathy Dunlap, one of the participants in my digital storytelling workshop this evening, directed me to Frank Baker’s website Media Literacy Clearinghouse: critical thinking about media messages. The site definitely has a wealth of resources related to media literacy. I applaud the goal of the site, stated on the “Math In the Media” page as:…
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Spray and pray PD, action research, and educational change
I think it was Frieda Foxworth and her co-presenters for K-12 Online who introduced me last week to the phrase “spray and pray” to characterize the predominant professional development model followed by most school districts in the United States when it comes to technology integration– as well as other new teaching ideas. This evening I…
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Thinking about new schools
In his article (linked on the Creativity Exchange) “Beyond Schools: A New Foundation for Education in the 21st Century” (PDF) Gary L. Thompson addresses several key questions and issues about reinventing education for our new millenium: If the World is Flat, then how do we Flatten Education? Education as [a] Pipeline Rather Than [a] Linear…