Year: 2007
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Avoiding shock and awe in Plato’s cave
I’ve felt a bit like E.T. recently landing on planet earth, speaking to a group of humans who had never seen or heard an extraterrestrial before. According to WikiPedia, “shock and awe” is: a military doctrine based on the use of “overwhelming decisive force”, “dominant battlefield awareness”, “dominant maneuvers”, and “spectacular displays of power” to…
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Administrator Movie
I had a great time substitute teaching a graduate class tonight on “Technology for Administrators” at the University of Central Oklahoma here in Edmond, where I live. Links to the resources we discussed are available on a new wiki page I created today for “Technology Leadership.” As proposed last week (and inspired by Marco Torres)…
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So when is daylight savings time?
My 6 year old and I have a father-daughter dance this weekend, and she was concerned this morning that daylight savings time might cause us some problems. (She’s been learning about DST at school lately.) We looked up daylight savings time on WikiPedia, and learned a great deal about the history of this time change…
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WOW2 podcast interview available
The Women of Web 2.0 skypecast from last week (Wednesday night to be exact) that included an interview with me as a featured guest is available online. There were a few technical problems with some echo effects and Skype bandwidth (I think related to my hotel connection in St Louis) but overall the interview went…
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Obscure movies face a great future
Bryan Reesman may not have heard about NetFlix, iTunes, Amazon, eBay, U-verse and The Long Tail— or at least considered how they relate to the present and future of home movie entertainment. If he has, for some reason he didn’t mention any of these online digital outlets or concepts in his article “For Obscure DVDs,…
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ADE Deadline Tomorrow
Interested in becoming an Apple Distinguished Educator? The deadline for applications for the class of 2007 is tomorrow, March 5, 2007. There’s still time to get your application in! 🙂 (Teachers in the U.S. as well as in other international locations can apply.)
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Multimedia Planning! by Marco Torres
These are my notes from Marco’s session today. Documentary style movies are powerful and do-able – so are mocu-mentories When I start a multimedia project with my kids, we first brainstorm all the things that other filmmakers might do or use for the guidelines of the movie – then we decide not to do those…
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An iPhone for every student?!
Great new video podcast on the Infinite Thinking Machine from MacWorld 2007— including reflections from many (including yours truly) on what it would mean for learning if every student had an iPhone! My comment for the podcast that wasn’t included was that 1:1 learning with small, powerful devices like the iPhone IS and WILL BE…
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“When I Become an Administrator” movie ideas
One of my favorite videos to show teachers during professional development sessions is Marco Torres’ Teacher Movie. Marco’s keynote today and this evening’s conversation with other MACE conference attendees inspired a project idea for next Monday– and I’d love to hear your input on this. Monday night (March 5th) I’ll be teaching a three hour…