Year: 2007
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Pay attention to the natives
Great video posted to YouTube and the Jordan T4 district website similar to Karl Fisch’s “Did You Know” preso focused on the importance of engaging digital natives, utilizing available technologies like cell phones, etc: I really liked the way the authors cited sources at the bottom of the screen for various statements that were made.…
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Choosing forgiveness and grace over hate and revenge
A blog post from Marina Cantacuzino brought The Forgiveness Project to my attention today for the first time, and permitted me to hear the thoughts of people like Desmond Tutu and others who have both been touched by unimaginable hatred and freed from a destructive cycle of bitterness through forgiveness and grace. The following paragraph…
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Promoting blogosphere civility
Today’s NYT article “A Call for Manners in the World of Nasty Blogs” includes some details about work being done by different folks relating to “blog codes of conduct.” I had heard about the troubles Kathy Sierra faced recently which led to the “Stop Cyberbullying” day Friday before-last, but not the stories of someone creating…
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The landscape of commercial eLearning curriculum options
An amazing array of eLearning curriculum options continues to proliferate on the web, and I would like to get my head around both the choices and the way those choices are differentiated from each other. I would love to see a screencast or podcast presentation where a knowledgeable, third-party source (not someone directly affiliated with…
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Flash format screencasts
I attended and took notes at the presentation “Screencasting @ Your Library” by Becky Rathgeber and Linda Uchida at the November 2006 Hawaii Library Association conference, and ran across the handout today which included the following recommended settings for Flash formatted screencasts. These were apparently suggested to them by Greg Notess: Lower quality for smaller…
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MySpace defamation suit highlights important issues
Saturday’s article from Pennsylvania “Hermitage principal sues over MySpace parody” highlights issues of ongoing importance relating to user-created content, defamation, free speech, and appropriate/ethical uses of digital technologies. According to the article: A school principal sued four former students who he contends posted parody MySpace.com profiles saying he smoked pot, kept beer at school and…
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Reflecting on helping kids develop their own ethical filters
I’ve posted a new podcast for “Digital Dialog” that I created this past week with my wife, Shelly. Our conversation focuses on chapter 1 of the 2007 book “Children’s Ministry in the 21st Century” by Craig Jutila, Jim Wideman, and Pat Verbal. Link to our “Digital Dialog” Ning social network on digitaldialog.ning.com. I had previously…
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First NetFlix streamed movie
Well, I’m sure doing what we did tonight will seem like old hat in 10 years, but it was really amazing at this point: We watched our first Internet-streamed movie from NetFlix! Glen Bull blogged about this a couple of weeks ago, and thanks to him bringing this capability to my attention we enjoyed “the…
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Cyber compliment day
Jen has called for a cyber-compliment day today! Thanks to Helen Mowers for bringing this to my attention! 🙂 Technorati Tags: CyberCompliment