Year: 2007
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Blogging intro curriculum
I’m teaching a series of 3 workshops (the same session repeated) with Michael Kelly next week in San Antonio at the SITE conference. We’ve put together a wiki of curriculum we’re going to use for the workshop. My lengthiest contribution is the page on subscribing to web feeds with IE7 and Google Reader. Lots of…
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Flat world 1:1 learning
I’ve shared some new thoughts on the TechLearning blog this evening/morning in a post I titled, “Flat world 1:1 learning.” If you just link to one thing from this post, check out Marco Torres’ latest video from Eek, Alaska. Now that’s the type of school I want my own children attending!
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Read/Write web political disruptions
Citizen journalism took headlines recently with Phil de Vellis’s (aka ParkRidge47 on YouTube) remix of the 1984 Apple Ad as a “Vote Different” video critique of Hillary Clinton and endorsement of Barack Obama. Writing on The Huffington Post, Phil reveals his only tools to create this headline-grabbing video were his Macintosh laptop, an Internet connection,…
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Evolving online security threats deserve more attention
The networked computing environment which regularly brings new powerful, collaborative tools to the fingertips of users around the globe continues to morph and reveal more insidious, creative ways hackers, criminals and spies are using these tools for malicious purposes. Mikko Hypponen from F-Secure’s new 9.5 minute video on YouTube about “Targeted Attacks” provides a good…
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Thanks Glen!
Many thanks to Glen Bull for taking over the author’s chair here the past several days when I was offline!
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Digital History
Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK) suggests that each discipline offers unique opportunities to integrate technology into the curriculum. For example, history teachers and their students can now directly access the documents and artifacts that collectively comprise the historic record – letters, photographics, maps, illustrations, historic accounts in newspapers, etc. Projects such as Television News of…
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Digital TV – TED Talks
The TED (Technology / Entertainment / Design) conference is an invitation-only event that costs $6,000 to attend. An amazing and diverse group of thinkers present — folks like Ray Kurzweil (The Age of Spiritual Machines), Neil Gershenfend (Low-cost Fabrication), Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia Founder) Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point), and Stephen Levitt (Freakanomics). Fortunately you don’t…
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Effectiveness of Technology in Schools
The most recent issue of the CITE Journal has just been published. This online, peer-reviewed journal focuses on technology and teaching. It is jointly sponsored by five teacher educator associations representing science education, math education, language arts, social studies, and educational technology. Truth in advertising: as editor, I’m probably biased about its value. That having…
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Internet Connections
Thanks, Wes, for the opportunity to interact with the “Speed of Creativity” community. My local Internet Service Provider (ISP) has been out of service this weekend, causing me to reflect on how quickly that the web has become an integral part of our lives. It first came into widespread use in the mid-1990s. A little…
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Welcome Glen Bull
I’d like to formally welcome Dr. Glen Bull to the “Moving at the Speed of Creativity” author’s chair. Glen has generously agreed to guest blog here for the next four days while I am offline for awhile, seeking to apply and practice some of the lessons I’m learning from Carl Honore and others. Glen is…