Year: 2007
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Options for podcast publishing and web feed creation
On May 28th I wrote about the importance of podcast publishers including details about each episode in their podcast file meta data and actual RSS feed, and not just on their website links to each show, in the post “The Joy of Juice Receiver and PodNova.” One of the great podcast feeds I mentioned as…
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Outlook to iPhone sync process working
I use MS Outlook running on Windows XP for my professional calendar, but now that I have an iPhone I (of course) want to have an updated (and editable) version of my calendar on the iPhone. As far as I can tell, there is not yet a direct way to set this up, so I’m…
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Videoconferencing coming cell phones near you
AT&T’s Video Share technology is a harbinger of technologies rapidly coming to a cell phone near you. According to a June 19, 2007 press release: Ultimately, services such as Video Share will be accessible over any of the three primary screens that customers use most frequently — the wireless device, the PC and the television.…
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Advice for web 1.0 to 2.0 (WordPress) page conversion?
Geeky but important question: Has anyone had luck batch converting a large number of similar, static webpages into a format that is importable into WordPress? I’m thinking a program like TextWrangler which supports batch grep search and replace commands might work, but that would be a pretty geeky / technical way to do this. Anyone…
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Rising treehouse expectations
Wow. Yesterday after picking up our two oldest children in Kansas (where they had both spent a week with relatives) we stopped by the remarkably creative Kevin Honeycutt’s house. We went to meet his family, but also to have a guided tour of the AMAZING treehouse Kevin built with his son Ben several years ago.…
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Second life as a bleeding edge PD environment
I’m quick to admit I’m no expert on Second Life. I’ve spent relatively little time there in the past year, and although I have dabbled in SL use enough to pen the post “Reasons to explore Second Life” for TechLearning earlier this year, I really feel inadequately experienced in SL to try and offer my…
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Unstructured practice can be a key to excellence
The June 2007 issue of Wired Magazine includes some great articles. The cover article “Elon Musk Is Betting His Fortune on a Mission Beyond Earth’s Orbit,” suggests our present age may be an even more exciting one for true rocket scientists (and those aspiring to rocket science) than the space race decade of the 1960s.…
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VoiceThread versus BubbleShare
Inspired by Bob Sprankle and his posted VoiceThread for BLC 2007, I played with VoiceThread myself for the first time recently and created a narrated slideshow of images taken at NECC 2007 and shared on Flickr. You can both view and leave comments (via text and audio) to this VoiceThread. VERY cool! Voicethread is very…
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Email becoming irrelevant? Not for most teachers!
For the past two years I’ve used the commercial service Pobox.com. For $20 per year, they provide you with an email address you can share publicly and then redirect to any other email address you choose. I like doing this because it provides another layer of spam protection for my personal email, which is certainly…
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Make eBooks, webpages, quizzes and other content iPod-mobile!
We wrapped up our 3 day “Digital Learning Academy” yesterday with teachers in Mustang, Oklahoma and in St. Louis, Missouri, with teachers sharing the results and learning points from their collaborative projects at the end of the day via a H.323 videoconference connection. Teachers used del.icio.us, Ning, Flickr, and/or PBWiki to create three different projects…