Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Category: 1:1

  • Left to Their Own Devices

    Have you noticed a pattern of change with electrical plug usage in your kitchen and bedrooms at your house in the past few years? The number of Internet-connected devices in the world is exploding, and this is visible in many households today via an increase in power chargers plugged into available outlets. In the past…

  • Newsweek Going All Digital

    Newsweek Magazine announced this week it is discontinuing its print version at the end of the year. The key statements in the article for me were the following: Tablet-use has grown rapidly among our readers and with it the opportunity to sustain editorial excellence through swift, easy digital distribution—a superb global platform for our award-winning…

  • Superb Teachers, What makes you tick?

    I work in a small, rural PK-8 district, Grand View. Grand View consists of and early childhood center, elementary, and middle school all close and comfy with one another on one site just north of Tahlequah city limits in Northeastern Oklahoma. Recently, our superintendent announced that he’d be interviewing applicants for a few different teaching…

  • #Playingwithmedia: a continuation of learning

    Thank you to Wes Fryer for asking me to participate as a guest blogger. This is cross posted at The View From My WIndow. I work at Yarmouth High School as the Instructional Technology Integrator. In March, we had the pleasure of having Wes come present a full day of learning #PlayingWIthMedia to our district…

  • Grand View THUNDERS UP! #playingwithmedia

    As a 1:1 educator and educational technology integration specialist, when Wes asked me if I’d like to contribute a #playingwithmedia post for his blog I jumped on the opportunity. I work at Grand View, a rural PK-8 district in Cherokee County, Oklahoma. Our summer camp is in full swing, and we have students working to…

  • iPad Media Camp July 11-13, 2012: 50% Discounts for ISTE, OTA, ODLA, OK A+, CCOSA, TCEA & MACE

    Several registration discounts are available for iPad Media Camp in Oklahoma City July 11, 12 and 13, 2012. This is a BYOI (bring your own iPad) training event. A 25% early bird discount is available to anyone registering through June 15, 2012. An alternative (not additional) 50% discount is available to current members of: the…

  • iPad Media Camp in Oklahoma City: July 11, 12 & 13, 2012

    I’d like to be the first to personally invite you to iPad Media Camp in Oklahoma City July 11, 12 and 13, 2012! iPad Media Camp is a three day series of hands-on workshops designed to inspire and equip educators to facilitate student media projects using iPads. Read more about each day’s planned learning activities…

  • eBook Won’t Open in iBooks (Closing & ReOpening an iPad App)

    (Cross-posted to Instructional FAQs for Yukon PS) Question: I’m using an iPad to try and view an eBook created by a student with the Book Creator app. The finished eBook is posted on Posterous.com. It downloaded to my iPad and shows up in the iBooks app, but it won’t open. What should I do? Answer:…

  • iGeography by Jenny Ashby (Workflows for Learning with iPads)

    These are my notes from Jenny Ashby‘s breakout session, “iGeography” at the 2012 Mobile Learning Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 13, 2012. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The official conference session description was: Students today have the world in their hands. Geography couldn’t be easier using various apps on the iPad.…

  • Combining 21st Century Skills, Project Based Learning, and iPads

    These are my notes from Felix Jacomino and Inge Wassmann‘s breakout session, “Combining 21st Century Skills, Project Based Learning, and iPads” at the 2012 Mobile Learning Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 13, 2012. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The official conference session description was: “The only way to make sense out…