Category: design
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Great quotations about learning with images
I invited Karen Montgomery to join the Great quotes about Learning and Change Flickr group, and she added images she’d previously uploaded into her “Quotes” Flickr set. Here are three of my favorites! H/T to Darren Kuropatwa, who reminded me about the Great quotes about Learning and Change Flickr group in his wonderful METC 2010 presentation,…
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Design Matters by Darren Kuropatwa at METC 2010
These are my notes from “Design Matters” by Darren Kuropatwa at METC 2010 today. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Darren is the most amazing math teacher I have ever met personally, and one of the most visionary teacher-leaders alive today. He walks the talk of blended, project-based, engaged learning like few educators do today.…
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Predictions for the iSlate on Wednesday: Apple Gambling Big to Redefine Digital Literacy
Before sharing more of my own speculations about Apple’s highly anticipated product announcement coming this Wednesday, I’ll echo those of John Siracusa in his New Year’s post, “Antacid tablet:” I have no inside information. All of the predictions below are purely speculative. If you don’t want to read yet another blog post about what someone…
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Get ready for an exciting year to read (and share) media
Will 2010 be “The Year of the Tablet?” New York Times blogger Nick Bilton thinks so. Two days ago he wrote: Like almost all the people covering technology, I have no doubt that Apple will release a tabletlike device in 2010; there are too many signs that point in this direction. Let’s put all the…
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KFC and McDonalds Reinvent Themselves – Why Not Our Schools?
In the past couple of years, have you noticed how many fast food chain restaurants have undergone a complete facelift? This is a photograph, taken with the Pano application on my iPhone, of our Oklahoma City KFC restaurant on 23rd street. Wow! What a change from the “typical” fast food restaurant! The physical environment has…
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Meet Jonney Shih, Netbook innovator
As a blog reader, you’re most likely familiar with names like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Steve Ballmer. How about Jonney Shih? If you have no idea who Shih is, you’re probably not alone. Currently there is not an English WikiPedia article for him, despite the fact that his vision and work are reshaping the…
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Designing for Learning: Engaging Students and Teachers from the Arctic to Australia by Aaron Doering
These are my notes from Aaron Doering’s presentation, “Designing for Learning: Engaging Students and Teachers from the Arctic to Australia” at the 21st Century Learning @ the West Lake Expo held Oct 31 – Nov 3, 2009 at Xi Hu, China, also known as West Lake. West Lake is in the center of Hangzhou, China,…
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OKC WordPress User’s Group Meeting – Oct 2009
These are my notes from the Oklahoma City WordPress User’s Group Meeting on 26 October 2009. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS, EVERYTHING ELSE IS NOTES TAKEN DURING THE SESSION. In attendance tonight. David North (user group organizer) Burt Bones burtbone.com – builds WordPress sites for other people Chris Jean – chrisjean.com –…
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Marco Torres at ACTEM 09
These are my notes from Marco Torres‘ keynote at ACTEM 2009 in Augusta, Maine, on 16 October 2009. MY COMMENTS AND THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The last time I was able to hear Marco speak and hang out a bit with him was in February 2009. See my post, “Marco Torres Keynote: ITSC 2009…
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An Exemplary Interactive Mobile Conference Website (Vision 2020 Conference)
Update 1/24/2012: MobileAP is now available on github.com/akinspe/mobilAP. Last week in Hong Kong, I virtually applauded high school students from Hong Kong International School who built an iPhone/iTouch compatible website to support the 21st Century Learning at Hong Kong conference in just two weeks, using the free tool jQTouch. The student team blogged about this on…