Year: 2007
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2 more days for NECC 2008 proposals
If you are planning on attending NECC 2008 in beautiful San Antonio, Texas, don’t forget there are just two more days remaining to submit presentation proposals! (Proposals are due October 3, 2007) Technorati Tags: necc, necc08
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Join online debates about education policy sponsored by The Economist
One of the best decisions I made in college was joining the speech and debate team as a freshman. I am firmly convinced participating/competing in intercollegiate debate as well as speech events for 4 years (extemp and impromptu were my main other events) helped me cultivate my critical thinking, organization, and public speaking skills more…
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What of Learning Signal?
I received a comment from the folks running the Learning Signal website a few weeks back, letting me know they were going to start pinging my site as a popular eLearning website and possibly featuring content from my site on theirs. I seem to recall an offer for an “insiders look” at what they were…
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Talking open source and edtech with AG
About three weeks ago I had the pleasure to discuss open source technologies and other educational technology issues with Alfred Green, author of AG’s Blog. AG has published our ranging conversation as a new podcast on his blog. The interview runs 87 minutes.
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$100 (or $180) Laptop: Get One, Give One
Bob Sprankle alerted me on Saturday during our webcast to last week’s article “$100 laptop to boost uptake with donation scheme.” According to the article’s author: One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is hoping to stimulate sales with a donation scheme that allows US residents to donate a laptop to a child in the developing world.…
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Podcast link problem fixed
Somehow the directory for all my locally hosted podcasts was renamed, and for that reason my podcasts have not been downloadable from provided links. I’m not sure when this happened, but the problem has been fixed, so you should be able to download my podcasts again. If you’ve been having trouble downloading them because of…
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5th grade Sunday School technology integration
In response to Kent Chesnut’s request for more information about how I’m integrating technology in lessons with our 5th grade Sunday School students at church this year, I recorded an hour-long podcast in the car and posted it to Eyes Right this evening.
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Talking K12Online07 with the Seedlings
Darren Kuropatwa and I were guests on Bob Sprankle, Cheryl Oakes and Alice Barr’s wonderful “Seedlings” live webcast / podcast yesterday afternoon. What fun! Since I was attending the Oklahoma “Last Frontier Council’s Centennial Scout Camporee” in Lawton with my son, Bob was able to “skype out” to me on my cell phone so I…
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Not a Guest Blogger You’d Expect
Greetings to Wes’s readers from Manhattan, KS — Wes’s mom here. Wes and Alexander are camping out for the weekend at a Boy Scout Camporee, and having a great time in wonderful weather. Wes reports about 5,000 Scouts, leaders & dads in attendance. Here’s wishing you all the same kind of happiness that’s in Manhattan…
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Value of blogs and citizen journalism demonstrated in Myanmar
According to CNN’s recent article “Blogs helping expose Myanmar horrors,” blogging citizen journalists like Ko Htike are helping get information out of Myanmar despite the ardent efforts of government leaders to silence them: Armed with a laptop, a blogger named Ko Htike has thrust himself into the middle of the violent crackdown against monks and…