Category: disruptive-technology
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Why Celebrate Oklahoma Voices Matters
Today was day one of our first Celebrate Oklahoma Voices 3 day workshop for educators in 2008. The project team is facilitating five of these workshops during spring and summer 2008 at different five locations in our state. Of all the topics I have addressed in professional development workshops over the past two years, digital…
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Boundaries of IM and SMS messaging with students
Yesterday I had a 40 minute commute each way to the school district where I was sharing workshops, and enjoyed listening to Show #30 from The Seedlings, the “snow day” show, on my iPod. (I absolutely LOVE snow days, btw. For more on this, see my post from Feb 2005, “Snow Days are the Best…
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Good morning, your workshop materials have been blocked
BYOB is not just convenient, it can mean survival in the 21st century educational technology and information landscape. After trying to pull up my workshop curriculum and handouts site today at the school where I’m presenting 4 workshops this morning, I was greeted by the following screen:After trying 1 more time to reach the root…
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Discussing Copyright, Creative Commons, IP and Education
Steve Hargadon facilitated a great conference call this afternoon about copyright issues in education on his Talkshoe Channel for Classroom 2.0. The recorded conversation is available now (15 minutes after the conversation ended) as a mp3 file. I had never participated in a TalkShoe audio conference before, and I really liked it– especially the way…
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The Future is Unwritten by Miguel Guhlin
These are my notes from Miguel Guhlin’s OTA 2008 keynote, “The Future is Unwritten.” In my free time, I serve as instructional technology director for San Antonio ISD All resources from today’s session: http://snipurl.com/ota2008 My core values #1 share more In New Zealand last year, Jenny Litchfield – has a face that tells a story…
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The dream is alive: Online at OTA via AT&T Wireless
I had my first experiences with a USB-based cell phone data access card this past December in Pearl Harbor when I helped facilitate our USS Oklahoma Memorial Dedication Videoconferencing and Digital Learning Project. That was a real “a-ha” moment for me. Although in that particular location (the center of Pearl Harbor) on that particular cell…
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Opening minds about cell phones for learning
In preparation for the series of of workshops I’ll be sharing here in Oklahoma at both the OU K-20 Center’s Midwinter conference tomorrow, the Oklahoma Technology Association’s annual conference next week, as well as a district technology day in Yukon and NCCE later in the month, I reviewed the 26 minute film “Mobile Phones, Mobile…
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Podcast219: Powerful Tools, Powerful Possibilities
This podcast is a recording of my keynote address at the STARtech: Technology for the Next Generation conference at Salina South High School in Salina, Kansas, on January 21, 2008. An amazing array of digital tools are now available for anyone connected to the Internet to use and share his/her voice with the world using…