Year: 2007
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Notes from 1:1 Laptop Project Videoconference: Chaminade
These are my notes from a videoconference today with educators and students at Chaminade Preparatory School in St Louis and Bishop McGuinness High School in Oklahoma City . Chaminade is a 6-12 Catholic school and has been doing a 1:1 laptop learning program for seven years. This videoconference was an opportunity for about 14 educators…
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Carpool discussions with Kevin Honeycutt
The ever creative Kevin Honeycutt interviewed me today for a video podcast he split into two parts: In the first section I discussed the background of how I started blogging and what is unique about blog conversations. In the second section we focused more on issues of cultural change in schools. This was a lot…
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Time lapse digital storytelling fun
The chain of online learning leads to an unexpected but wonderful place again today… While exploring Steve Whitaker’s website today after learning about Ustream, I discovered the free software Gawker which: is an application for Mac OS X that creates time-lapse movies using a webcam. Images from your camera can be shared, allowing other users…
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Live webcasting via Ustream
My work with educational technologies the past few years has convinced me we have entered the “publish at will” era of information sharing. This means (to me) that anyone with a computer and Internet connection can publish their thoughts via different modalities (text, audio, and video) for a global audience– without incurring additional expenses. This…
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Emphasizing informational texts via SSR with blogs
Mark Ahlness not only shared great perspectives from his classroom about “Technology and Literacy” at the recent International Reading Association’s conference in Toronto, but by presenting asynchronously via video and synchronously via a Skype chat he also shared a powerful object lesson about teaching, learning, and professional development in the 21st century. I’ve been able…
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Synchronizing contacts across 3 platforms
Keeping my personal contact lists up to date has always been a challenge. The past few years I’ve experimented with different solutions, and I’ve consistently (since 2001) had to work with platform (Mac/Windows) issues and MS Exchange. I’ve worked at times with several Palms (a Tungsten and a Treo 600) and also synced contacts with…
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A great era for rocket scientists
For those who thought the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s were the golden age for rocket scientists, think again. The June 2007 issue of Wired Magazine has several articles relating to the new “rocket boom,” and I read Carl Hoffman’s article “Elon Musk Is Betting His Fortune on a Mission Beyond Earth’s Orbit” this evening.…
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Teacher in Space: August 2007!
In creating a list of links related to NASA, space exploration, and Mars today (for some teachers and students making videoconference connections next week with NASA’s Digital Learning Network) I discovered that NASA’s STS-118 mission is scheduled to launch in August 2007 with the first teacher in space: Barbara Morgan. Barbara Morgan was the backup…
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K-12 Online 2007: Call for Proposals!
Announcing the second annual “K12 Online” conference for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice! This year’s conference is scheduled to be held over two weeks, October 15-19 and October 22-26 of 2007, and will include a preconference keynote during the week…