Year: 2007
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XO Laptop for Christmas?
I’ve posted some new thoughts on the TechLearning blog today related to the XO Laptop, a $200 price point for personal computers (see NPR’s Sept 24th report “Dell Chases Greater Share of Chinese Market”) and how each of us may be able to promote the cause of empowering youth to “invent the future” (in the…
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Voicethread about Civil War artifacts in Oklahoma
Last week I had a chance to visit the Confederate Memorial Museum in Atoka, Oklahoma. Here are a few narrated images of artifacts from the U.S. Civil War from my visit. The museum has a website with more information.
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Social Bookmarking 101
Last month I wrote a new, short article for the TechEdge (TCEA’s quarterly magazine) titled “Social Bookmarks 101.” This article is available online as a webpage and alternatively as a PDF file. This article will be published in the print version of the TechEdge later this fall. Technorati Tags: social, bookmarking, education, socialbookmarking, schools
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Content Filtering in Schools: Striving to CONTROL user behavior
Today I finished up the seventh E-rate seminar around the state of Oklahoma in series of ten workshops I’m leading. The following messages have been common in my web browser this week in the school districts who have hosted the seminars, prior to and following my presentation time… Trying to access Twitter yesterday: Trying to…
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Many more K-12 Online Conference Teasers
If you haven’t been regularly checking out the K-12 Online Conference blog the last two weeks, check out this page which includes links to all the presentation “teasers” submitted to date. Wow do we ever have a creative lineup of presenters for the conference this year! 🙂
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Wiki feedback for a podcast on technology leadership
Louis Loeffler is the instructor for Cardinal Stritch University’s “Technology Leadership I” course. I received an email recently from Louis that he was having trouble accessing the podcast interview I posted last May with Dr. Scott Mcleod (“Podcast151: Dr. Scott McLeod on Administrator Idea-Sharing via Blogs, Digital Social Networking, and Educating Others for the Transition…
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A whole different level of amateur rocket launches
Have you ever launched Estes model rockets with students or with your own children? As part of a “Power and Energy” class I took in 7th grade in Manhattan, Kansas, we built our own rockets and used Estes engines to launch them. That was certainly a memorable class project! A year or so ago, we…
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Shanghai Cricket Market VoiceThread
I created and published a short VoiceThread this evening I titled “Shanghai Cricket Market.” Apparently crickets have both a lucky/superstitious value for many Chinese people living in Shanghai, as well as a “sporting” value for gambling. We learned a lot more about crickets and saw all different sizes in this Shanghai Cricket Market when my…
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Inbox Zero: Living the dream!
Ah. The simple yet elusive pleasure of “inbox zero.”First time I’ve seen this since September 12th before we left for Learning 2.0! Thanks to both Merlin Mann and David Allen!Technorati Tags:email, merlinmann, inboxzero, inbox, zero, davidallen, gtd
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Captcha help needed
I need some WordPress captcha advice and help. I use the outstanding captcha plug-in re-captcha on my own blog, but for some reason (even though I’ve downloaded and uploaded it multiple times) I can’t get it to show up as an available plug-in on the K-12 Online Conference blog. (We’re running WP 2.2.2 there.) What…