Year: 2007
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ProfCast summer stories contest
ProfCast is an excellent program for Mac OS X which makes creation of enhanced podcasts including PowerPoint or Keynote slides synchronized to audio narration relatively straightforward. I’ve used ProfCast several times with good results, including last December when I recorded a “draft” of my presentation on cultivating digital literacy skills via blogging and pocasting for…
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K-12 Online DEN Presentation on Slideshare
Darren Kuropatwa and Lani Ritter-Hall will be presenting a webinar in an hour (at 7 pm Eastern Time today) for Discovery Education about the collaborative possibilities available via the FREE upcoming K-12 Online conference. Darren published their presentation slide deck to Slideshare today and it was immediately selected as a “featured slideshow!” I had wanted…
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Back in the USA, our travel day continues
It is great to be back in the USA! We were able to take off from Shanghai before the typhoon made landfall. It ended up making landfall south of Shanghai and not doing much damage to the city, but still caused flooding and damage in other parts of China. Fox News has an image of…
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Notes from Gary Stager’s Learning 2.0 Session: 10 things to do with a laptop
I AM CURRENTLY ON THE FLIGHT FROM SHANGHAI TO TOKYO. THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM THE PODCAST OF GARY STAGER’S FINAL SESSION AT THE LEARNING 2.0 CONFERENCE IN SHANGHAI LAST WEEKEND. (TYPHOON WIPHA SLOWED DOWN AS IT APPROACHED THE COAST OF CHINA, AND WE WERE ABLE TO TAKE OFF IN SLIGHTLY ELEVATED WINDS BUT OTHERWISE…
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Update on Typhoon Wipha
It’s 5 am local time in Shanghai, the city is overcast but not rainy yet. Yesterday we had intermittent rain all day, with periods of VERY heavy downpours which seemed to suggest “we were in for it” as far as tropical storms go. Our flight for Tokyo and then Detroit, Northwest 26, is scheduled to…
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Typhoons do include a lot of rain
Well, what are the chances? We’ve come to China for the first time in our lives, and we’re here in Shanghai fairly close to landfall for a category 5 typhoon! This is the current location of the typhoon relative to us in Shanghai: When we left to explore the city this morning there was light,…
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Morning street scenes from Puxi, Shanghai
Shelly went out early this morning and captured about twenty images of street scenes in the neighborhood outside our hotel in Puxi, Shanghai. Today is the first cloudy, rainy day since we’ve been in China. I think Shelly has a good “photographer’s eye” for capturing interesting scenes. Some images from this series would make a…
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Photos and Impressions of Puxi, Shanghai
Well, my Shanghai wifi connection seems to be a bit faster and the Flickr uploader finally worked, although I had to upload these images from today in two batches. Here are a few highlights: This Citibank ATM machine worked like a charm today. How amazing is it to use a foreign ATM halfway around the…
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Amazing adventures in Shanghai continue
The Learning 2.0 conference in Shanghai concluded around noon on Sunday. Since then, I’ve been thoroughly enjoying some time to explore Shanghai with our wonderful host Jeff Utech. There is SO MUCH to share and reflect on that I’m not sure where to begin, but since the WiFi connection I’m using is rather slow I’ll…