Category: disruptive-technology
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Why I’m delaying a Netbook purchase till June
I’m enamored with Netbooks. The light weight of a Netbook is alluring, but most I’ve tried have keyboards that are just too small for my fingers. The HP Mini 1000 is the best I’ve tried, but I want to find/purchase a Netbook with even LONGER battery life. Dell is supposed to be releasing a new…
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Who Will Save Journalism? We will!
I was going to start a “no screens” time at 10:30 pm CST this evening and read more in my latest analog book, “Presentation Zen” by Garr Reynolds. Picking up our family’s iTouch and reading a bit in Google Reader (my 21st century free digital newspaper, don’t you know) changed that, however, and I feel…
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Lessons Learned: Webcasting and Live Blogging a School Board Meeting
Tonight was an evening of several personal “firsts:” My first Edmond Public Schools board meeting to attend as a parent, and the first school board meeting I’ve both webcast (via Ustream) and live-blogged via CoverItLive. The live blog included 83 comments from me as well as remote attendees, who numbered around 16 at one point…
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A projector in my pocket and a Netbook in my satchel
Could this be true? A working data projector for $300? The lumens aren’t too bright, but it does work, and I’m nothing short of AMAZED. See my ISTEconnects post, “The handheld $300 3M LED Projector” for more info. More photos are in this Flickr set. David Jakes was impressed too! 🙂 I was also enviously…
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Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (CoSN 2009 closing keynote)
These are my notes from the closing keynote at the 2009 CoSN conference, “Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns,” presented by Dr. Clayton M. Christensen (via video) and Michael Horn (in person.) MY COMMENTS AND THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I WAS ABLE TO MEET AND VISIT BRIEFLY WITH…
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Google Apps: Implementation and Changing the Way We Do Business
I was not able to attend this CoSN09 presentation in-person since it was scheduled at the same time as Cheryl Lemke’s preso on web 2.0 research, but the presentation is available online (on Google Presentations, not surprisingly) and I recorded audio from the session with presenter permission, which I’ll republish here soon. Prince George’s County…
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Netbooks prove cloud computing is a reality
Here’s my favorite quotation from Clive Thompson’s February 2009 article for Wired magazine, “The Netbook Effect: How Cheap Little Laptops Hit the Big Time.” Netbooks prove that the “cloud” is no longer just hype. It is now reasonable to design computers that outsource the difficult work somewhere else. The cloud tail is wagging the hardware…
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Creating Custom iPhone and iPod Touch Flashcards with gFlash and Google Documents
While I’m a vocal proponent of learning opportunities which focus on higher order thinking, I also readily acknowledge that in some contexts rote memorization is still important and needed. Multiplication facts are a case in point. If students do not set to memory all their multiplication facts during their late elementary years, virtually all higher…
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Cellphones in the classroom? Yes way! by Ryan Collins
These are my notes from the presentation “Cellphones in the classroom? Yes way!” by Ryan Collins at the eTechOhio 2009 conference on Feb 2nd. MY REFLECTIONS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Presentation notes are available on http://ryancollins.org/wp/etechohio09/. I AM RECORDING RYAN’S SESSION AND MAY PODCAST IT, BUT HE IS RECORDING IT AND IS DEFINITELY…
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Notes from Dr. Scott McLeod’s keynote at the OU K-20 Center’s 2009 MidWinter Conference
These are my notes from Dr. Scott McLeod’s keynote at the OU K-20 Center’s MidWinter Conference in Norman, Oklahoma, on 29 January 2009. MY REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The conference Ning is http://k20center.ning.com, and is open to anyone. All presentation content and resources from Scott’s keynote are on: scottmcleod.net/oklahoma Transitioning Oklahoma Schools… started with…