Category: digitalstorytelling
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Time to get on the mobile learning train!
Vanderbilt University’s iPhone content portal is an amazing information resource and reveals that the future of mobile learning is HERE for colleges and universities with leaders who understand the implications of and possibilities for convergence in higher education. (Thanks to Karen Montgomery for sharing this link!) Choices on the website include information about Admissions, Colleges…
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Podcast241: 100K of New AT&T Foundation Grant Funding for Oklahoma Digital Storytellers, Museums and Memorials
This podcast is an audio recording of a fifteen minute press conference held on April 1, 2008, at the Oklahoma Heritage Association in downtown Oklahoma City. During this event, AT&T Oklahoma President Don Cain announced $100,000 of new grant funding from the AT&T Foundation for Oklahoma non-profit organizations. These groups include the Oklahoma Heritage Association,…
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Helpful tips for PowerPoint authors
How many BAD PowerPoint slide decks have you seen and been forced to endure, relative to truly compelling multimedia presentations? My lifetime PPT history includes (unfortunately) far more bad examples than good ones. Perhaps authors of PowerPoint (or more generically we should probably say, “multimedia presentation slideshows”) could benefit from Comedian Don McMillian’s suggestions: My…
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Oklahoma City National Memorial Videos and Possible VFT
Wow. Based on my successful experiences sharing some live webcasts over Ustream.tv a couple of weeks ago in Washington DC from the National Air and Space Museum sites, I am contemplating offering/facilitating a free virtual field trip (at least one but maybe more) from the Oklahoma City National Memorial. The memorial and accompanying museum is…
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Thanks to Marco Torres for the term “quick victories”
I’ve added a link to the top of my blog today to a webinar I’m sharing on May 7, 2008, for the CILC (Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration) entitled, “Quick Victories for Blended Learning.” I first heard the term “quick victories” from Marco Torres, during or after one of his presentations at the MACE…
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Washington DC Experiences
Alexander and I spent some time this morning working together to create a VoiceThread about his experiences in Washington DC this week. Full disclosure: Alexander is 10 and in 4th grade. He selected the images for this VoiceThread, which I had imported into iPhoto from my iPhone and exported to the desktop for him. We…
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Now I can explain Twitter to my wife
Thanks to Lee and Sachi LeFever’s latest creation, “Twitter in Plain English,” my chances of effectively explaining Twitter to my wife (and others) just increased by a factor of ten! Nod to Chris Lehman! 🙂 I think these “in plain English” videos could be used to challenge students to explain complex concepts through simple, yet…
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Copyright questions and answers about iTunes, Podcasts, and Fair Use
I posted the following Q&A series to the TechLearning blog, but am cross-posting this here for my own archival purposes. Generally my TechLearning blog posts aren’t quite this long and I don’t cross-post, but in this case I’m breaking with traditions….. This could probably qualify as an article rather than a blog post! None-the-less, the…
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Podcast236: Let’s Invent the Future – A Presentation for Oklahoma Superintendents
This podcast is a recording of a presentation I shared with Oklahoma superintendents on March 5, 2008, in Oklahoma City at an Apple Leadership Institute. If the world is flat for those with connectivity, what are we going to do to change our learning environments in schools to support the development of 21st century skills…
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Podcast231: Global Voices – Using Synchronous and Asynchronous VOIP Applications for Worldwide Classroom Collaborations
This podcast is a recording of my final presentation at the NCCE 2008 conference in Seattle, Washington, on February 29, 2008. We were fortunate to have Dr. Scott Mcleod join us over Skype for the first ten minutes of this session from Mubai, India! The program description of my session was: Amazing new voice technologies…