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Category: blogs

  • Podcast139: Powerful and Meaningful Connections from Blogging International Students, MilBloggers, and Others (An interview with Angie Fryer)

    This podcast features an interview with my mother, Angie Fryer, recorded in a coffeeshop in Manhattan, Kansas on March 2, 2007, following the MACE conference. For several years now, my mother has read and subscribed to a number of blogs from a diverse group of people including U.S. students studying abroad in other countries, milbloggers…

  • Differentiating instruction, using blogs for student sharing

    What’s the right word to describe the virtual pathway you follow to find a resource or idea? I am not sure, but whatever that word is… my pathway to the following resources included: – David Warlick’s Hitchhikr site for METC2007 — Rob Jacklin’s blog post on and podcast of Amy Vejraska’s METC 2007 preso “If…

  • Thinking big as the world grows smaller by Hall Davidson

    Update on 29 July 2016: Viddler (@viddler) is referenced in this post from 10 years ago and has shifted its business model/focus in a different direction. These are my notes from Hall Davidson’s keynote at METC today. (My own commments and reflections are included in ALL CAPS.) I’m recording this to post as a podcast…

  • Podcast136: Policy, Privacy and Practical Legal Issues for Teachers, IT and Others

    This podcast is a recording of a presentation by Celynda Brashner, an attorney, at the METC Conference in St. Louis today. The conference program description of her presentation was: Presentation will be addressing practical policy and legal issues associated with the use of technology in the schools. This is intended to be an interactive process.…

  • Podcast134: Eric Langhorst on Teaching History with 21st Century Technology

    This podcast is a recording of a presentation by 8th grade U.S. history teacher, Eric Langhorst, titled “Teaching History with 21st Century Technology.” This presentation was shared at the Midwest Education Technology Conference (METC) in St. Louis on February 27, 2007. The official METC conference program description of his session was: Learn how an 8th…

  • Teaching History with 21st Century Technology by Eric Langhorst

    My notes from Eric Langhorst’s METC 2007 presentation, “Teaching History with 21st Century Technology.” Eric is the author and producer of the fantastic Speaking of History podcast. The handout for his session (PDF) as well as his session PowerPoint are available from his blog/podcast website. I’m recording this session to post later as a podcast.…

  • Ongoing Knights Templar discussion

    Blogs are amazing tools for ongoing discussions. If you don’t follow my comments feed you may not realize this, but there have been continuing comments on a post I made over a year ago titled “Knights Templar.” I personally find that era of history fascinating, and it is so cool to see discussions continuing about…

  • Power of digital text

    Dr. Michael Wesch from Kansas State University has posted a great five minute video exploring the power of digital and hyperlinked text to connect ideas and people to YouTube: Use the free YouTube downloader if you want want an offline copy saved to your hard drive that you can share with others when you are…

  • Bloglines Imagewall backlash

    Miguel Guhlin is calling for a boycott on Bloglines based on their newly announced “Image Wall” feature which dynamically updates a page with fresh, user-contributed/posted images from the web. Before you actually view the imagewall, users have to agree to the following AUP: As Audrey, the first commenter to Miguel’s post noted, clicking on any…

  • 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…