Year: 2007
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Feed river options
I’ve posted some new thoughts over at TechLearning in a post I titled, “Changing information processing routines.”
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Blog tools keep getting better
Last night I setup a new podcast blog for a church project on wordpress.com, and I was very pleased with how easy the process was and the new features which are available there for free. Unlike a WordPress blog you host yourself, you can’t upload and install plug-ins to a blog on wordpress.com, but you…
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MIDI keyboard advice?
Ever since I became awed with the power and flexibility of Gargeband software listening and learning from Marco Torres at our ADE academy in July 2005, I’ve wanted to purchase my own MIDI controller keyboard to take the program and my quite limited musical creativity to another level. Last October I had a chance to…
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Good teaching with technology DOES make a difference
Today’s AP article “Study eyes effect of tech on classroom” is yet another example of media oversimplification of “wicked challenges” that are faced by teachers every day, particularly when it comes to the use of educational technology. According to the article: Going high-tech doesn’t lead to higher math and reading scores, according to a federal…
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Creativity and disaster response
I heard the following statement recently in a conversation about disaster planning and recovery: Failure in disaster planning almost always results from a lack of imagination. I found that statement to be particularly thought provoking. Too often we assume that top-down, technocratic / centralized-planning style leadership is the only thing that can “save us” when…
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Great sound resources for podcasts
I received a question recently about resources for free sound effects online. The best list I’ve seen lately is Hall Davidson’s, which he has shared as a Word document and linked from his Kit Building page. Another resource to know about is Acid Planet’s free 8 packs of loops. They share a new 8 pack…
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KidCast Podcasting Awards
Know a great student-created or teacher-created podcast? Nominate your favorite for the 2007 KidCast Podcasting Awards. Technorati Tags: podcasting
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OLPC and the IDC test (innovation, differentiation & collaboration)
This short, 3 minute video from CES about the OLPC (one laptop per child) prototype is amazing! What fun it would be (will be?) to teach a group of students equipped with such a powerful learning device! This video published by the same author details the mesh networking capabilities of the OLPC technology: The following…
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Ruckus, DRM and IP (intellectual property)
Ruckus is billed as “free music for college students: Unlimited access to over 2 million tracks and growing.” In the varied efforts to stop illegal file sharing on college campuses by students, Ruckus’ approach is interesting: Get universities to partner with a commercial online music service and then encourage their students to channel their music-downloading…
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The boss button
Live streaming web coverage of some of the 2007 Master’s golf tournament will be available online later this week. I was quite amused to see a “boss button” in the upper right corner of the screen: Clicking the “boss button” fills your screen with an innocuous-looking Excel spreadsheet: