Category: disruptive-technology
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Virtual Field Trip workshop
I am presenting a short workshop tomorrow on virtual field trips for teachers in Greenville School, which is located in Marietta, Oklahoma about 100 miles south of Oklahoma City. I have created a Virtual Field Trip workshop wiki that includes resources we’ll explore and discuss. As I was putting together this workshop curriculum, I realized…
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Distance learning can be disruptive
According to the Springdale Morning News’s article “Distance learning takes off, hits political arena”: An Arkansas high school student conceivably could earn almost all credits to graduate without ever meeting a teacher, a surprise to some legislators who believe face-to-face interaction is an integral part of learning. Last school year, more than 10,000 students in…
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Sightspeed VOIP
Sightspeed is another VOIP software solution for Windows and Macintosh similar to Skype. Sightspeed offers a few things Skype does not yet offer (as far as I know) including multi-party, multi-platform videoconferences (with up to 4 people) and streamlined video blogging. iChat offers 4 person videoconferencing (I participated in my first one this weekend actually…
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A Web of Connections: Why the Read/Write Web Changes Everything
Keynote by Will Richardson at MTI 2006 sponsored by MACE Winfield, KS 27 July 2006 blog: weblogged-ed.com email: weblogged at gmail dot com presentation resources: webloggedlinks.pbwiki.com (Will has granted permission for me to post an audio recording of his keynote this morning, which I’ll be posting later tonight as a podcast.) Preliminary announcements by MTI…
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The present and future of classroom videoconferencing
Alan Greenberg of Wainhouse Research released a 17 page PDF report in July 2006 titled, “Taking the Wraps off Videoconferencing in the U.S. Classroom: A State-by-State Analysis.” The study set out to answer two basic questions, “What is the extent of [videoconferencing] adoption in any particular state,” and “How many schools and classrooms are likely…
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Skype adding video
A beta version of Skype for Macintosh including “video preview” is available. The Mac version is catching up with the Windows version, which has offered one-to-one video conversations (videoconferencing) since version 2.0. This moves one step closer to what the Skype folks are working toward: Cross-platform, one-click global videoconferencing, for free over the Internet. Skype…
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Safe blogging and Classblogmeister
Mark Ahlness has written a great post he titled “The Case for Classblogmeister” that teachers and administrators contemplating options for classroom blogging should definitely check out. If you’re not familiar with David Warlick’s free Classblogmeister tool, you definitely should be. Many, many teachers are using it– and others started with it who have branched out…
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The U2 record incident, remixing media, and online publishing
Many of the digital natives in our midst want to remix media their world, not merely consume it. They also want to create original media. Check out websites like YouTube, iFilm, Revver, Vimeo, the BBC’s Video Nation, and others if you want evidence. (I’ve incidentally started a new social bookmark category for these sites, which…
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MC Hammer supports the remix culture
Headlines about the RIAA and other groups suing individual consumers for remixing copyrighted content are common. This headline from today’s USA Today Money section, “’90s star MC Hammer taps Net’s social networks to promote new album,” bucks that trend. Instead of trying to prosecute young people for remixing pop culture a la ccMixter, the Hammer…