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  • 365 Photo Blog: Posterous, WordPress or just Flickr?

    Bob Sprankle has (along with others like Alan Levine) inspired me to start a 365 photo blog in 2011. I’m contemplating options for setting up the blog, and am wondering whether a Posterous blog or a WordPress blog (probably on a subdomain of speedofcreativity.org) would be my best choice? Bob uses WordPress (bobsprankle.com/365) and Alan…

  • 2010 EduBlog Award Nominations: Please Vote!

    Annual EduBlog Award voting is upon us again, and I’m honored “Moving at the Speed of Creativity” has been nominated in three categories this year: Best Individual Edublog Best Resource Sharing Blog Lifetime Achievement Please take some time and cast your votes in these and other categories. One vote per IP per category is allowed.…

  • iPad Blogging with Posterous

    The easiest way to blog on an iPad, which I have used to date, is to: – Type notes in Notes (free, comes on the iPad) – Email your notes to post@posterous.com That’s it! It is possible to configure your Posterous website to cross-post to other websites and locations, but that is not required. I…

  • Archive of today/tonight’s #globaled10 Elluminate session: Share Your Ideas

    If you missed the live Elluminate session of my keynote tonight during the 2010 Global Education Conference, “Share Your Ideas: Platforms for Publishing,” you can check out the full, archived recording. Like all the sessions in the conference, it’s entirely free. In all we had 52 people from around the world attend at least part…

  • Share Your Ideas: Platforms for Publishing #globaled10

    Please join me tomorrow at 6 pm CST (Fri 19 Nov 12:00AM GMT) for my keynote during the 2010 Global Education Conference. The session title is, “Share Your Ideas: Platforms for Publishing.” This is a LIVE, online presentation hosted by Elluminate. This is the link to the Elluminate session room, which will open one hour…

  • iPad Doorprizes, Clearly Announced Conference Recording Permissions, & Ustreaming #micon

    If you ever have an opportunity to attend one of the conferences or workshops sponsored by The Martin Institute in Memphis, Tennessee, definitely go! This past September at their conference, educators in attendance won FIVE brand new Apple iPads along with several Flip Video cameras as door prizes. Now that’s what you call Christmas in…

  • Why blog when you can Glog?

    These are my notes from an unconference session on Glogster in the classroom at the “Co-teaching and Collaboration Conference” in St Paul, Minnesota on 11 Nov 2010, at the School Community of Excellence. This session was facilitated by Angie Wrobleski. Glogster is an internet website where you can make a poster, add text, audio, videos,…

  • Platforms for Interactively Sharing Student Work

    This is a short article I wrote for the November Educational Technology Newsletter of Gadsten City Schools in Alabama. Feel free to republish this with attribution. Personal computers have been with us for over thirty years.1 In the last five years, mobile devices like smartphones and mp3 players have become much more common in our…

  • phpBB for my School Reform Book Forum?

    I’m hoping to publish my first “blog book” soon and am thinking about the best options for facilitating online conversations about it. I did work around the mySQL database problems I wrote about recently, by downgrading an offline copy of my blog to WordPress 2.9 running off a local MAMP install and exporting all my…

  • Do the Mash: Mixing Tools to Create a Custom Cloud-Based Learning Tool

    These are my notes from Stephen Best‘s presentation, “Do the Mash: Mixing Tools to Create a Custom Cloud-Based Learning Tool” at the “Teaching and Learning in the Cloud Conference” in Holland, Michigan on 21 Oct 2010. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. All of Stephen’s resources are listed on his conference session page. THIS IS…