Category: blogs
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Why is voting cool now?
Our education committee for the Oklahoma Creativity Project had an interesting discussion during our monthly meeting regarding today’s U.S. elections. Why is voting “cool” now, in the perception of many people in our country? Certainly participatory technologies have played a role in these changing perceptions. The CNN-YouTube presidential debates were a big part of this.…
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Professional development submission requests integrated in K12Online08 blog
I am SO, SO pleased to announce at long last that participants in the K12Online08 conference can now submit reflections for professional development credit on the conference blog as comments and receive an email PD certificate. Please read the post “Receive professional development credits” on the K-12 Online Conference blog for more details. Note that…
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Combining RSS feeds with Yahoo Pipes
I’ve known about Yahoo Pipes for many months, but finally found a good reason to use it today. I created a combined RSS feed from the presentations and critiques RSS feeds of the notk12onlineconference.org website, and then created a javascript badge (again using Yahoo Pipes) which I embedded on the left side of the K-12…
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NowPublic Citizen Journalism and intellectual property
The power to “publish at will,” digital citizenship, citizen journalism, a working understanding of intellectual property rights, and digital ethics are all important topics for 21st century learners. Subjects from each of these areas were raised by the following NowPublic.com request I received recently via FlickrMail from Terri Potratz in Vancouver, Canada: Terri wanted to…
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NECC 2009 proposals are in!
My proposals are in at last for NECC 2009!
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Follow tonight’s Presidential debate on OETA’s Political Pulse Blog
As you may know, the first U.S. Presidential debate of the 2008 campaign is scheduled for this evening (September 26, 2008) at 8 pm CDT. Here in Oklahoma, our public television network (OETA) has created the Oklahoma Votes 2008 website to provide dynamic election coverage. One of the site’s resources is the Political Pulse blog,…
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Delicious visual tag clouds, Classroom eZines, Wikis as files and Creating the Universe with Spore
I learned about several new sites and tools this morning thanks to conversations with James Deaton and Eric Hileman. Wordle can be used to view a tag cloud of a delicious.com user’s contributions, so you can get a quick, visual picture of the ways that person tags the web. Here’s my current Wordle delicious.com tag…
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Good morning, your WordPress blog has been hacked
Many, many thanks to Marino Ceccotti for his recent comment on my blog “about” page letting me know my WordPress installation had been hacked. These are the times it can be a little unnerving to be your own technical support department. Somehow, hundreds of invisible links were being appended at the bottom of each page…
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PodCorps.org, Citizen Journalism and StoryChasers
This is a cross-post from TechLearning today. Affiliated with the 501(c)(3) non-profit Conversations Network, PodCorps is a: …worldwide team of producers who record and publish interviews and spoken-word events that would otherwise be lost forever. Podcasters and videobloggers join PodCorps.org to learn, share experience with others and give back to their communities. This sounds like…