Year: 2007
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iPhone to open to 3rd party apps
The iPhone is opening up for 3rd party software developers starting in February 2008! According to the lead article on “Apple Hot News” written by Steve Jobs himself: Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We…
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Share your voice via Net Day Speak Up
Cheryl Oakes shared a link to Net Day Speak Up on her great TechLearning post today, “Be Active Take Part in Something New.” According to the “Speak Up” website: Speak Up, a national online research project facilitated by Project Tomorrow, gives individuals the opportunity to share their viewpoints about key educational issues. Each year, findings…
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K12Online07: Some Initial Statistics
The FREE 2007 K-12 Online Conference is off to a great start. We know this based on the feedback shared via comments on the main conference blog, but the statistics from our ClustrMap as well as Feedburner feeds also show lots of folks are participating. Here are a few highlights. To put this in perspective,…
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Behold the power of iSquint!
I am SO impressed with the compression ratio and high quality achieved by iSquint, which is free software for Macs that compresses and converts QuickTime files into iPod compatible mp4 files. One of our presentations for K12Online07 today was 339.6 MB in size when it was given to conveners. After running the file through iSquint…
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2 More K12Online07 PD Reflections
I’ve posted two more reflections for professional development credit to the “open web” (to use a new term I learned from D’Arcy Norman) on my personal professional development reflections blog, using Gabcast. These reflections are on the presentations “More Than Cool Tools” and “Motivating Student Writers by Fostering Collaboration through Tagging and Aggregating.” Both were/are…
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PD Reflection and Reflection on Cell Phones as Classroom Learning Tools
Following the guidelines of the 2007 K-12 Online Conference professional development committee’s posted rubric, I’ve used Gabcast this afternoon/evening to reflect on Liz Kolb’s wonderful presentation yesterday “Cell Phones as Classroom Learning Tools.” I have created a new blog on Blogger (for free of course) for my professional development reflections, for the K12Online07 conference as…
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Controlling the Learning Environment
These are my notes from a session at MOREnet’s MITC07 conference titled “Controlling the Learning Environment.” The session description in the conference program is: Attendees will learn how SchoolVue provides the tools for supervision and instruction. With SchoolVue, a teacher demonstrates learning materials to students, shows a student’s work to the class, groups students, controls…
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Come and get them: 18 new k12online07 enclosures
Day 2 of the 2007 K-12 Online Conference is underway, including updated podcast channels for both audio and video. Hopefully we’ve got the MIME type issues resolved in the feeds, I did have to resync the audio feed this morning because there was an error in the feedburner version. Hopefully if you’re using iTunes and…
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Balancing freedom for creativity and a need for reasonable uniformity
Tomorrow we are publishing 18 different audio and video files for day 2 of the K-12 Online Conference! Be sure to subscribe to both the audio and video podcast channels! As in the 2006 conference, we have wonderful presentations using so many different web 2.0 tools! Hopefully we’ve struck a good balance between encouraging creativity…
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A Vision of Students Today
Add the video “A Vision of Students Today” from Professor Michael Wesch and his cultural anthropology students at Kansas State University to your personal list of “must see” videos about our need for educational reform and videos for professional development. This video uses the same effective technique I’ve seen previously in “Hero in the Hallway”…