Category: disruptive-technology
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Beware: YouTube video annotations may be inappropriately disruptive
I had a big surprise today during our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices “partner’s workshop.” For fun and to make some serious points, to kick off our discussion of copyright and intellectual property issues as they relate to digital storytelling I started to show a YouTube version of the 1992 video “Don’t Copy That Floppy.” This was…
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Advancing eBook technologies
Electronic texts are consumable today with a variety of hardware devices, but the size, power, and versatility of today’s devices is likely to be laughable in ten to twenty years. Now that I have an iPhone, I find it easier than ever to catch up on news and blog posts using Google Reader’s site customized…
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iTunes Installation Guide and Implications of the 4th Screen
This evening was the 2nd of 5 sessions in the adult class “Lifelong Learning with iTunes University” which I’m teaching on Wednesday nights in October and November at our church. In the first five session class I taught on Google Earth, I failed (or more accurately chose not) to provide step-by-step handouts for participants. This…
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NowPublic Citizen Journalism and intellectual property
The power to “publish at will,” digital citizenship, citizen journalism, a working understanding of intellectual property rights, and digital ethics are all important topics for 21st century learners. Subjects from each of these areas were raised by the following NowPublic.com request I received recently via FlickrMail from Terri Potratz in Vancouver, Canada: Terri wanted to…
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Podcast286: Learning about Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Powered Vehicles from Dr. Peter Sherwood of Oklahoma State University
This podcast features an impromptu interview with Dr. Peter Sherwood of Oklahoma State University, who is the proud owner of a 2004 Chevrolet Cavalier automobile powered by both CNG (Compressed Natual Gas) as well as regular gasoline. Dr. Sherwood explained how he came to purchase this amazing car and the benefits of it (CNG is…
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The practical car of the future today: Natural gas AND gasoline powered!
We’ve got lots of amazing people in the great state of Oklahoma, and I met another one today who drives a fantastic car. If you were reading my blog back in November, you probably recall my post “The Mac Jedi’s Homebrew Mobile Commander” and podcast “Pimp My Ride (digitally) Southeast Oklahoma Style (An Interview with…
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The Educational Technology Influence Nexus
I had a thought provoking conversation recently with Karen Montgomery about some terms and dynamics relating to educational technology in our schools. Vicki Allen had shared this after talking to a Tandberg system engineer. In our schools, we have “obtainers” and “maintainers” when it comes to educational technologies. The obtainers are teachers, instructional technology directors…
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This is why we have so few laptop initiatives in Oklahoma
I shared this entry as a new post on the TechLearning blog, but am cross-posting here because of problems we’ve had with the commenting features over there. Feel free to comment on that post (if you can) or here. I had a conversation this evening with a professor from Oklahoma Christian University (OC) that broke…
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RadioShack advertising and School cell phone policies: A slight contradiction
I’ve shared a new post on the Infinite Thinking Machine blog titled, “Behold the clash of civilizations.” Technorati Tags: cellphone, school, ban, cell, education, clash, civilization, policy, learning, distruptive, technology
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Podcast269: Background and Formative Ideas for the Storychasers Project
This podcast is a recorded skype conversation between Cheryl Lykowski and Wesley Fryer, discussing a new idea for a collaborative project titled “StoryChasers.” The current (but evolving) “about” page for the StoryChasers website states: Storychasers is a multi-state (and potentially multi-national) educational collaborative empowering students and teachers to responsibly record and share stories of local,…