Year: 2007
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Ustream.tv tomorrow?
The slides for my TechForum Southwest keynote tomorrow, “So the World is Flat. Now What?” are available as a PDF file (16.7 MB). With encouragement this evening from Miguel Guhlin and David Jakes, I’m going to attempt a live Ustream.tv broadcast of the keynote tomorrow. Haven’t tried this, haven’t tested this, but we’ll give it…
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Key for student laptops is content creation, not entertainment
Christopher Lawton’s article today in the Wall Street Journal (“The First-Grader’s First PC”) highlights several sub $500 computers designed specifically for children, including some I hadn’t read about previously. The Eee PC, priced at $399 according to Christopher’s article, is marketed for mobility, reliability, ease of use, connectivity, media applications and entertainment. The Eee PC…
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The Today Show on Twitter and Media Literacy
I was very interested to learn today that the NBC television program “The Today Show” is not only on Twitter, but also is following me. I’m not going to get a big head over this and think that Al Roker is going to be calling me anytime soon for an interview, but I do think…
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Lots of Jack O Lanterns and Signs
I love taking pictures, and I love Flickr. This evening as we supervised trick or treating for our three kids in our neighborhood (we definitely had a record “haul” for candy) I took photos of lots of jack o lanterns. I then joined the “Great Pumpkin” jack o lantern photo pool on Flickr, and contributed…
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Learning about documentary filmmaking and WWII from Ken Burns
I have only seen about 30 minutes of the latest Ken Burns documentary “The War,” but what I have seen touched my heart and moved my spirit. I am in the midst of attempting to facilitate several opportunities for Oklahoma teachers and students to utilize videoconferencing as well as online digital tools to get involved…
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12th “Great Book Story” project example
This evening my 2nd grader finished writing up an assigned book report about “China’s Bravest Girl,” a book which relates the legend of Hua Mu Lan on which the Disney movie “Mulan” was based. I helped her select five pictures to accompany an image of the book cover to use for a digital story about…
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Discoveries with PodcastPeople
I posted to Bob Sprankle, Cheryl Oakes and Alice Barr’s “Seedlings” Ning this evening about some of my recent experiments using PodcastPeople as an environment for publishing and sharing podcasts. PodcastPeople is one of several tools Bob, Cheryl and Alice encourage participants in their excellent 2007 K-12 Online Conference session “Flat Agents of Change” to…
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How to Create Bully Free Classrooms and Schools
These are my notes from Dr. Allan L. Beane’s presentation “How to Create Bully Free Classrooms and Schools” at the Oklahoma State Department of Education’s annual “Safe and Healthy Schools Conference” in Oklahoma City on 29 Oct 20207. Dr. Beane’s website is www.bullyfree.com. I am recording this session with permission from Dr. Beane and will…
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New Parental Control Options in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard
I purchased the latest update to the Macintosh operating system (“Leopard”) at our local Apple Store in Oklahoma City on Saturday, and my initial impressions are very positive. I initially tried an “upgrade” installation on my Macbook, but the computer would not complete the boot-up process for some reason after that installation. I tried it…