Year: 2007
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FETC Podcasts
Twenty outstanding sessions from the Florida Educational Technology conference held several weeks ago in Orlando are available from the Apple Learning Interchange (keyword: FETC2007) as free podcasts that can be downloaded for offline viewing or viewed via your computer’s web browser. I have not listened to them yet, but three of the outstanding sessions from…
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How much bandwidth will that podcast consume?
As I teach various workshops relating to educational podcasting, I frequently field questions relating to bandwidth. Today I discovered this excellent comparative table of podcast lengths and encoding bit-rates which shows the approximate sizes of podcasts of different lengths recorded with different quality levels from Liberated Syndication. For my own podcasts that are primarly spoken…
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3G cell phone to H.323 videoconferencing
I shared some thoughts relating to videoconfencing on the TechLearning blog tonight in a new post titled, “The future of collaborative videoconferencing.” My thoughts on this were strongly influenced by multiple conversations over the past few weeks, including this week’s discussion with Rachel Tucker of Bonham ISD about a great idea for collaborative videoconferences between…
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Flatscreen LCD televisions instead of projectors?
Jamey Osborne posted an interesting idea concerning the purchase of flastscreen LCD televisions instead of projectors today: I was walking the exhibit floor yesterday and a thought hit me like a ton of bricks. We’re working with our schools to put projectors into classrooms as fast as we can. The revelation was that the price…
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Creative Commons: Escape the hassles of copyright infringement
These are my notes from a presentation by Jamey Osborne at TCEA 2007. Jamey is with the Ysleta ISD Instructional Technology Dept in El Paso (josborne [at] yisd [dot] net) – he is an ADE and Adobe lead teacher [JAMEY IS ALSO A GURU OF MYSQL / MYPHP DATABASES FOR EDUCATORS, GREAT WORKSHOP RESOURCES AND…
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They laughed when I told them how I beat stress!
This are my notes from Dr. Lynell Burmark’s presentation at TCEA 2007 on 2/9/2007. Lynell’s website: www.educatebetter.org All of us know that just because you fail one test you are not a failure, right?! Hopefully we’ll have some laughs and some serious moments today – also we will talk about some tools we can use…
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Students Providing Tech Support: The 21st Century A/V Club
These are my notes from a presentation by Sylvia Martinez of Generation YES at TCEA on 2/8/2007. I’m recording this session with Sylvia’s permission and will share this as a podcast later tonight. This is a GREAT model that more school leaders need to be aware of and embrace! Generation Yes: http://genyes.com What is tech…
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NASA Digital Learning Network: NASA in Your Classroom
These are my notes from this session at TCEA 2007 in Austin, Texas, on February 8, 2007. NASA – Digital Learning Network NASA’s learning network is hoping to get on Internet2, but are still working on that – now accept IP and ISDN videoconference calls The purpose of our network is to inspire the next…