Year: 2007
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Recording with multiple mics in Garageband
My son and I recorded a podcast interview today in Garageband using two different USB microphones at the same time. We had not ever done this before, but learned how by using this YouTube video from MacMost as well as this Apple Garageband support article. We’ll be posting this podcast here later today, which lasted…
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Great holiday reading on digital learning
If you’re looking for some holiday reading related to digital learning, check out this great set of free ebooks from MIT Press Journals and the MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. Thanks to Nancy McKeand, via Clarence Fisher, via Danah Boyd, for this link! What is this virtual breadcrumb trail of attribution called?…
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If gambling is bad for soldiers, isn’t it bad for non-military citizens?
In today’s CNN article “Bill would ban military slot machines,” Drew Griffin relates the story of Army Warrant Officer Aaron Walsh who “became addicted to gambling on military slot machines,” eventually resigned from the Army, and was homeless in Las Vegas for a period of time before committing suicide in 2006. Since moving to Oklahoma…
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Wrestling with website registration limits
We had an important and thought provoking conversation this evening at home regarding digital ethics. For his 10th birthday, thanks to the generosity of my in-laws who were willing to negotiate a “trade” for their old titanium G4 Powerbook, my wife and I were able to give our 10 year old son his own laptop…
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Consider 1:1 learning in Korea
Dreaming of a 1:1 learning environment with a supportive administration and good pay to boot? Consider the Korea International School in Seoul, South Korea. Clay Burell has put out a call, writing: “Teacher 2.0” types are eagerly sought. We’ve got the machines; now we need the visionaries and teachergeeks. The pay is better by far…
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Add blog post to Google Reader shared items without subscribing?
I am using Google Reader more frequently both on my laptop and iPhone to read RSS feeds, but I still find some aspects of Google Reader awkward. For example, when I find a post I’d like to share (I have the code for my shared Google Reader items in the lower right sidebar of my…
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Digital Witness from Pearl Harbor
I uploaded the last set of photos from last week’s Oklahoma Digital Learning Project trip to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii this evening. All photos are now available in a collection, and they are organized by day in each set. I need to make several additional VoiceThreads with these images. This trip was filled with powerful experiences,…
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Encouraging learners to use and author WikiPedia
Andrew Church makes a good case for teachers permitting and even encouraging students to use WikiPedia during their research projects for school. I would extend his encouragement even further, and assert that teachers should encourage students to also AUTHOR WikiPedia articles. Teachers need to author and contribute to articles themselves as well. There are multiple…
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Watching graph scales during our ice storm
I’ve been keeping watch from time to time this week on the dynamically generated graph from our power company (OG&E) showing how many Oklahoma customers have been without electricity. On an aggregate basis, according to this morning’s Daily Oklahoman newspaper (NewsOK.com) over 600,000+ people are still without electricity statewide. My first screenshot from December 10th…
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USS Oklahoma Memorial Dedication
I have uploaded the entire dedication ceremony for the USS Oklahoma Memorial from December 7, 2007, in Pearl Harbor Hawaii to the OETA ftp server for subsequent transfer and posting to the NewsOK.com “Brightcove” video server. The entire ceremony was approximately two hours long. These videos will be subsequently “chunked” into pieces that are less…