Year: 2007
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Changing the Face of Our Educational Practice Using Web 2.0 Technologies
THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM MARTIN LEVIN’S PRESENTATION AT EDUCOMM 2007. MARTIN IS THE TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR OF THE ARMIDALE SCHOOL IN AUSTRALIA. This preso is NC-17 – bare facts, course language, and textual references, extreme violence We live between Brisbane and Sydney in Australia We were seeing kids doing all kinds of interesting things: example…
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Building Schoolwide Online Collaboration
THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM SCOTT PERLOFF’S PRESENTATION AT EDUCOMM 07. MY IDEAS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Scott is with the Milken Community High School found the combination of a web 2.0 application and someone who “owns” the event locally leads to much better results with online collaboration Computer supportive collaborative work and collaborative learning…
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Megamedia in Your Pocket: Nuts and Bolts of iPods, A/V and Education
THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM HALL DAVIDSON’S PRESENTATION AT EDUCOMM 2007. MY OWN REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Hall’s PPT for this session is available for download. (19.7 MB) Hall showed first clip from “Planet Earth” from his iPod – is included in the “plus package” of UnitedStreaming from DiscoveryEducation can do an entire PowerPoint…
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Reinventing PBL
I am a strong supporter of project-based learning and problem-based learning in educational contexts. On Monday before my flight to California, I was interviewed on the phone by Suzie Boss, Executive Editor of The Learning Innovation and Technology Consortium. The sidebar quotation of the LITC is one of my favorites from Margaret Mead: Never doubt…
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Audio Production, Music Composition and MIDI Across the Curriculum and the Globe
THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM KEN JOHNSON’S (EDUCATION DIRECTOR FOR M-AUDIO) PRESENTATION AT EDUCOMM 07. I GOT TO THIS PRESO LATE, SO THESE NOTES ARE INCOMPLETE. I AM NOT MAKING AN AUDIO RECORDING, BUT A STREAMING VIDEO VERSION SHOULD BE AVAILABLE LATER FROM THE EDUCOMM WEBSITE. Reasons for audio interfaces – we are getting more…
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Web cam proctor? Give me a break!
I may be in the minority with this view, but I find the facts and assumptions contained in yesterday’s CNN article “Web cam exam proctors are latest cheating deterrent” ridiculous and sad. The gist of the article is that some universities are requiring students to buy a special web cam which verifies they are not…
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K-12 Online proposal deadline extended
The deadline for submitting K-12 Online Conference 2007 proposals has been extended to Friday, June 22nd. Unfortunately, there was a glitch in the settings for our online proposal form (this was my fault and oversight) which only permitted one submission from an IP address. This meant that some people (or possibly some schools) who submitted…
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Planning, Funding and Sustaining Strategies for Successful 1:1 Computing (K-12) by Bruce Dixon
THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM BRUCE’S SESSION AT EDUCOMM 2007, I’M RECORDING AND HAVE PERMISSION FROM BRUCE TO POST LATER AS A PODCAST Bruce Dixon: Founder & President, Anytime, Anywhere Learning Foundation Anywhere Anytime Learning, nonprofit the hardware is the easy part – our mission really is about what happens next – we are still…
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Kicking Your Digital Photography UP a notch by Lesa Snider King
THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM LESA’S PRESENTATION AT EDUCOMM ’07. I AM RECORDING THIS SESSION AS AN AUDIO PODCAST AND WILL PUBLISH THAT HERE SUBSEQUENTLY. Lesa is very published, and is David Pogue’s assistant (he’s the keynote tomorrow!) – Lessa is the Chief Evangelist for iStockphoto – no membership fees – 31,870 images now with…
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Notes from Alan Kay’s keynote at EduComm07
THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM ALAN KAY’S KEYNOTE ON 19 JUNE 2007 AT EDUCOMM. ALAN GAVE ME PERMISSION TO RECORD THIS AS AN AUDIO PODCAST, WHICH I WILL PUBLISH HERE LATER TONIGHT. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Alan Kay has an amazing bio: Amazing lifetime achievements. An amazing thinker, creator, and inventor. “the best…