Year: 2007
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Overt and covert messages in signs
I admit I can be a bit of a cynic. Here are a few photos I’ve taken the past few weeks, with a few ideas of what the implications or logical conclusions of these photographed declaratory statements might be… along with a few “more positive” images and messages! So teachers and administrators need to purchase…
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Pleased with Plaxo
As I’ve related previously, I continue to find myself in a situation where I need to sync my calendar and contacts across three different platforms: My Outlook account on MS Exchange / Windows XP, my Yahoo online account, and my MacBook (now running OS 10.5.) By getting my Yahoo contacts synced as well as iCal…
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Astronaut courage and NASA ingenuity shown again
Think the ability to think fast and solve problems with the materials on hand was just something NASA astronauts and design engineers needed back in the early days of the U.S. space program in the 1960s and 1970s? Think again. According to Wednesday’s CNN article, “Discovery lands after challenging mission:” Even before the mission began…
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iMovie HD: Initial Impressions
I upgraded my iLife applications to iLife ’08 several weeks ago, but until this week hadn’t had an opportunity to work with iMovie HD (the new version of iMovie included in iLife ’08) with much depth. This past Thursday night, I taught a workshop for teachers in Mid-Del Schools on using both Garageband ’08 and…
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Marketing in the Attention Economy
Earlier this fall I shared a three part podcast series about the “attention economy” and its implications for schools. These were titled Podcast174: Relevance in the Attention Economy Part 1: Key Ideas, Podcast187: Implications of the Attention Economy for Schools (Part 2 of 3), and Podcast190: Implications of the Attention Economy for Schools (Part 3…
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The outboard brain, memory, transfer and learning
I’ve read a couple articles recently about memory, the brain, and the fundamental ways our access to information and knowledge has changed which have me thinking. Clive Thompson referred to the idea that “the information/knowledge is in the network” in his September article in Wired magazine titled, “Your Outboard Brain Knows All.” Thompson cited Cory…
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Digital audio alternatives by Will Birchett
These are my notes from a presentation by Will Birchett of the University of Oklahoma on “Digital audio alternatives” at the ODLA 2007 conference. What is digital audio – bits and bytes – not analog – when an analog audio signal is converted into electrical on/off pulses everything in analog audio is voltages – digital…
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How Can I Create a Podcast? Let Me Count the Ways! (notes from Lance Ford’s preso)
These are my notes from Lance Ford’s ODLA 2007 presentation, “How Can I Create a Podcast? Let Me Count the Ways!” Part of this session is archived and recorded on the Howe Public Schools’ Tandberg Content Server. (Lance created this podcast DURING our workshop today, because he is using the latest version of the Tandberg…
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Lance Ford, Live on Podcasting
Lance Ford from Howe Public Schools (Oklahoma) is about to start his workshop on “How Can I Create a Podcast? Let Me Count the Ways!” at ODLA 2007. Watch his preso live via the Howe Public Schools’ Tandberg Content Server: http://164.58.224.88/tcs/ I am recording his session with audio and will post subsequently as a podcast…