Category: disruptive-technology
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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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Cell phones in Cuba today, political changes tomorrow?
CNN is reporting “ordinary Cubans” are going to be allowed to have cell phones, something not permitted when Fidel Castro was the leader of Cuba. Fidel’s brother, Raul, made this decision. I think it is likely to have major effects on the Cuban economy, political culture, and society in general. Limiting access to information and…
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A vision of the mobile, connected college experience – Today in Abilene, Texas
About a month ago I heard about the newly announced iPhone higher education mobility project at Abilene Christian University, in Abilene, Texas. The ACU website “Mobile Learning and the Connected Campus” includes a link to the fifteen and a half minute movie “Connected,” which is a vision of how iPhones are being deployed today at…
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Lessons Learned from two more Ustream.tv remote webcasts
My son and I conducted our third and fourth live webcasts over Ustream.tv today from the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles International Airport, about 30 miles outside of Washington D.C. Udvar-Hazy is an extension of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum which opened four years ago, and houses a wonderful array of…
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Spinning history and the means of publication
It has been a wonderful opportunity to be in Washington DC this week for many reasons. This is the fifth time I’ve had a chance to visit this area in my short lifetime, and I think I’m learning more than ever. As we age and gain more experiences, I think we obtain more background knowledge…
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Partial victory web-casting from the Smithsonian
As previously mentioned, today at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. my son and I successfully conducted two short web-casts over my Ustream.tv channel using an AT&T / Sierra Wireless USB laptop data connection device (it’s not a true “card,” so I’m not sure what else to call it), my MacBook, a…
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Live over UStream from COSN in Washington D.C.
Assuming a reasonably fast Internet connection is available Monday at the COSN conference in Washington D.C., I’m hoping to broadcast both my concurrent sessions as well as the “vendor demo” I’m sharing about using cell phones for learning over UStream.tv on my “Moving at the Speed of Creativity Live” channel. Throughout the week (hopefully, pending…
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Engage Me or Enrage Me: Educating Today’s Digital Native Learners
These are my notes from Marc Prensky’s NCCE 2008 opening keynote. My thoughts and comments are in ALL CAPS. I heard Marc share this presentation in 2006 at TCEA, and my notes from that preso remain online / available. NCCE is recording a video of Marc’s presentation which they will be posting later as a…
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Mobile Phone Media Collection and VoiceThread
I just wrapped up my second workshop at NCCE in Seattle, titled “Cell Phones for Learning.” Participants learned how to use Gabcast to record audio interviews “in the field” as well as Flickr upload by email to share digital photos. We took the photos (from Flickr) and web-posted mp3 files (from a new Gabcast channel…
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Knowledge and learning require both transmission and construction
I’m finalizing my session materials for NCCE in Seattle later this week, and want to include a reference to Thomas Edison’s sweeping pronouncements in the 1870s about how the phonograph (one of his inventions) was going to revolutionize education forever. I heard Marco Torres make reference to this in March 2007, when he shared the…