Year: 2007
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A fun activity for October 13th
Got plans for Saturday, October 13th? If not, consider getting together with some buddies and shooting a 3 minute film masterpiece in 24 hours for the 2007 Insomnia Film Festival! If your film wins top votes from either the public or the professional judges, “each member of your team will receive a MacBook Pro, Final…
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Living in the era of the digital cavemen and cavewomen
Remember the cartoon “Captain Caveman?” I’m sure I’m dating myself with this reference, but that was one of MANY cartoon favorites I remember watching growing up in the late 1970s. While that image and the memories it triggers bring a smile to my face and thoughts of, “Captaiiiinnnnnnn Caaaaaaaaveman,” the thought I had today related…
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Consider yourself tagged for K12Online07!
Help us spread the word about the 2007 K-12 Online Conference, starting in just a few weeks on October 8th! The PR committee started their media blitz today, and one aspect of that effort is the 3 Reasons Meme. I’ve posted my 3 reasons to the K-12 Online Conference blog. Please post yours to your…
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Content filtering in Communist China versus an Oklahoma school
Today I am back on the road in Oklahoma, starting a series of seminars around the state related to the E-rate program for U.S. schools and libraries. Last week when I was in Shanghai, China, presenting at the Learning 2.0 conference, I reflected in a VoiceThread digital story about some of the differences in accessing…
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Seeking the elusive “inbox zero”
It is quite challenging to return to “normal life” and work after a week-long trip and face email inboxes.Since starting David Allen’s book “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity” several months ago, I’ve started applying several of his core organizational principles with limited but positive results. Since it is quite hard to change…
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Book cover copyright issues with VoiceThread stories
This past week, a friend of mine shared the “Great Book Stories” project with a group of librarians and received some VERY strong pushback from a few of them over copyright issues. Several of the librarians were FIRMLY convinced that using a photograph of a copyrighted book cover in a student project posted on the…
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WordPress configuration details and Mac applications
I’ve added a variety of technical details about the blog software (WordPress) configuration I’m using including plugins to the “about page” of my blog. (Scroll down and look under the section subtitled “Some technical stuff about my blog.”) In addition, I’ve updated my wiki list of Macintosh applications I currently have installed. I added the…
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Learning 2.0 Conference opening panel
The Learning 2.0 conference in Shanghai opened last Friday night with an engaging panel discussion among the speakers. This was not only a lot of fun, but also a great way to frame the themes of the conference and introduce everyone to the speakers. Each speaker was asked to respond to a different question relating…
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Mysterious Macbook mouse button problem
Mysteriously, the mouse on my Macbook has stopped clicking. Thinking this was a problem with my built-in trackpad, I dug in the garage for an old USB mouse (I found our blue and white hockey puck mouse from our now unused Yosemite G3 tower) and tried it– but to no avail. Anyone experienced this problem…
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Another compelling reason to work online
I learned this evening (via Darren Kuropatwa) that Google Documents has a wonderful new feature– online collaborative presentations! Google announced this on Monday. I’m eager to give this a try. There are several presentations (most notably my session on safe digital social networking) which I’ve repeatedly shared with others. (Download links to the slides of…