Year: 2007
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Differing views on EduBlog awards and competition
I’ve continued my thinking about the 2007 EduBlog Awards over on the TechLearning blog in the post, “Questioning competition and self-promotion.” Technorati Tags: edublog, awards, education, school, competition
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2007 EduBlog Awards nomination
Thanks to the person(s) who nominated my blog for the 2007 EduBlog Awards in the category “Best individual edublog.” If you find my blog helpful and interesting on a somewhat regular basis I’d appreciate your vote! 🙂 Over 500 different blogs were nominated for the awards this year, so it is a honor to just…
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International and domestic US travel / contact maps
I reviewed my Flickr profile page this evening and noticed I hadn’t updated my “Visited Countries” map since making the trek to Shanghai in September. I went ahead and added Japan as well, but (like Australia) I don’t really think a mere visit to the airport should qualify as a “visit.” create your own visited…
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Olympus WS-110 voice recorder rocks!
I am spending time this week collaboratively creating new educator workshop curriculum for the Celebrate Oklahoma Voices project. As our centennial year draws to a close, we are transitioning the project from the “Oklahoma Digital Centennial Project” to “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices.” As I noted over Thanksgiving, statehood for Oklahoma was not a reason for all…
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Planetary magnetic fields and auroras
My wife and I watched an amazing 2004 NOVA special from NetFlix last night called “Magnetic Storm.” We love watching these types of science specials from time to time. I knew a few things about magnetic fields as they apply to earth science, but learned several new things in this special too that are amazing.…
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Thoughts about educational change inspired by videos and blog conversations
I recently caught up with discussions surrounding Gary Stager’s critique of Michael Wesch’s video, “A Vision of Students Today.” Gary posted his thoughts to his blogger site in the post “Are We Impressed Because College Students Can Use Google Docs?” and to the DA Pulse blog in the post “Hey Mom! Look What I Made…
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Mobile Digital Storytelling
I have written a new article for the winter edition of the TechEdge, the journal of the Texas Computer Education Association. Normally I publish these articles on my “Tools for the TEKS” website, but since my version of Dreamweaver no longer works with my upgraded operating system I have to delay linking this article from…
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Ideas for student research and digital stories in 2008: Controversial topics
One of the main things which distinguishes digital stories like those created by Marco Torres and his students, or by Mabry Middle School students the past 7 years in their digital storytelling contests led by the vision of of Dr. Tim Tyson, is TOPIC SELECTION. Most of these topics are compelling because they are real,…
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In the carpool with Kevin
Friday morning after Thanksgiving day Kevin Honeycutt and I spent some time “in the carpool” via Skype discussing educational technology tools for which I am thankful and other topics. Kevin’s description of the skypecast conversation is: In this carpool, Wesley Fryer shares some of the tech tools he is thankful for. Besides being back in…
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1963 to 2007: Broadcasting has come a long way
This Thanksgiving I’ve been looking at some of my Dad’s college yearbook photos from 1963. The context for this is an upcoming memorial ceremony for one of Dad’s classmates (Pat Wynne) who was shot down over North Vietnam in 1966, declared MIA, and later declared KIA in 1977. As I was looking through his senior…