Year: 2007
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Wisdom from John Miller
I had the opportunity to hear John Miller, author of “QBQ!: The question behind the question. What to really ask yourself. Practicing personal accountability in business and life” yesterday. These are some of my notes from his session. I will first note that I wish more people would share their ideas under a Creative Commons…
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Consider the way of the educational coyote
If you are looking for a challenging and fascinating take on disruptive pedagogical approaches to learning, read Eric Hoefler’s post from yesterday, “Coyote Teaching.” My favorite paragraphs are: Tricksters are understood to be powerful creative forces, and creativity is both necessary and dangerous. It is the trickster figure who brings fire to the people, but…
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Podcasting from the Windows side
I learned this evening about Jodix.com‘s free utility to convert virtually any Windows video file into an iPod compatible QuickTime file. The website to download the utility is www.ipod-video-converter.org. This looks like a good tool to use to convert Windows-created PhotoStory3 files into iPod compatible versions. (It is allegedly malware free, and I’ve heard reports…
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Criticizing policies not people
I think there is a fine line to walk when criticizing a government policy, like the NCLB law or the war in Iraq. The line is crossed, intentionally or unintentionally, when criticism for the policy is interpreted as a criticism of the people tasked to carry out that policy. For those criticizing current U.S. war…
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Oklahoma Title I Videoconference on Cyberbullying
These are my notes from the Oklahoma Dept of Education statewide Title I Health videoconference on “Cyberbullying” on 14 Feb 2007 – I am a panelist for this videoconference, my links are on http://teachdigital.pbwiki.com Wed Mar 7 1:30 – Brand new “healthy Oklahoma manual” speaker from Oklahoma Poison Control Center FBI Parent guide to Internet…
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Failure, mistakes and NCLB
It is a tragedy the message many students receive in our schools today louder than all others is, “We have zero tolerance for mistakes or failure.” The creative process is all about being willing to take risks, fail, and learn from those mistakes as we try again. I am not saying we should celebrate failure,…
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Passionate Champions, Innovation and Multidisciplinary Teams
At the recommendation of Tim Wilson, I listened today to a podcast of the ITConversations interview with Curt Carlson, President and CEO of SRI International. The podcast runs 25 minutes. Carlson’s 2006 book (written with William Wilmot) was “Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want,” and in the podcast Carlson discusses several key…
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Gaming for Peace
Last April I shared a post titled “Racist games teach wrong values” which attracted a relatively large number of comments (at least for my blog) from a very diverse group of people with different perspectives on violent games which target particular ethnic groups. In the post I recommended championing games like Peacemaker, which seeks to…
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Podcasting KWL and Adoption-level Podcast Uses
I led a fun workshop at Bishop McGuinness High School in Oklahoma City today, working with seven lead teachers who already integrate technology into their curriculum in various ways and assist other teachers with digital teaching methods. We did a KWL activity halfway through our workshop on podcasting with Garageband, and did the last part…
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What do you run on your Mac?
A good friend of mine has just taken the plunge from the world of Windows and Linux and purchased a Macbook! 🙂 With Parallels running he’s got the best of all worlds. For his benefit, possibly my own if/when I need to reinstall apps, and yours if this is of interest, I’ve created a new…