Category: disruptive-technology
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University students positive on podcasting
Dr. David Miller is a psychology professor at the University of Connecticut who produces the weekly, interactive iCube podcast for his students. I learned about Dr. Miller’s innovative podcast last week and updated my post on “Higher Ed Podcast Purposes & Examples” to include a fifth category called “Interactive and Reflective Q&A.” iCube podcasts don’t…
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Web 2.0 Audio Conversations
For several weeks now I have been having fun playing with the fantastic web 2.0 tool Yackpack. Last night and today, I finally setup a family “pack” and turned my kids loose on it. I could hardly get them to stop! My youngest even caught the contagious enthusiasm and had to get in the act…
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Classroom podcasting benefits
Several weeks ago I put into words many of the ideas I had read, listened to, and thought about relating to the benefits of classroom podcasting in the article “Classroom Audio Podcasting.” Today I listened to David Warlick’s 1.5 hour podcast presentation from PodcasterCon2006, and several things struck me as major benefits or aspects of…
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Amazed by Skype and Web 2.0
I just finished the most amazing experience of my brief lifetime using educational technology. Darren Kuropatwa in Canada, Ewan McIntosh in Scotland, along with Miguel Guhlin and I in the United States all had an hour long skype conversation discussing some critical questions relating to web 2.0. I have just put the recorded skype conversation…
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Downhill Battle
This t-shirt from the website “Downhill Battle – Music Activism” is rather amusing: Downhill Battle’s “reasons to get rid of the major record labels” include: Music diversity will grow. Pay-for-play radio will end. Independent music won’t be marginalized. The lawsuits will stop. Artistic freedom will expand. Musicians will make a better living. All of these…
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Luddite criticisms of technology and modernism
I had a wonderful Skype conversation with Miguel Guhlin this evening for an hour and a half. We were discussing presentation ideas for an April 3rd “Improving Student Learning through Technology-Best Practices” administrator in-service in Fort Worth where we are both speaking. Much of our conversation tonight focused on frustration with systemic-level school reform efforts,…
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VOIP options
Commercial VOIP services like Vontage seem to be more visible and commercially available now, at least here in stores like Radio Shack and Best Buy in Lubbock, Texas. Just search Google News for “VOIP” to see what a hot news topic this is. At some point in the not too distant future, I am considering…
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Einstein Endorsement
Hey, is this cool or what?! Thanks to Andrew, a Flickr contact from Bejing, for alerting me to the amazing website archive where I discovered this image tonight! This one is also potential poster-material for a K-16 classroom near you! 🙂 Go ahead, make your own version! Playing in the web 2.0 world is equivalent…
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Educational Banner Evangelism
I think I need to re-write my “Macintosh evangelist” page linked at the bottom of all my blog entries and most of my other personal webpages, and change it to “21st Century Educational Banner Evangelism” on the following issues. This is not because I am dumping the Mac OS in lieu of Linux or because…
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2nd rejected TechEdge article
For the second time this fall, the Texas Computer Education Association has rejected an article I have written and submitted about educational technology. I have been a regular columnist for TCEA since the fall of 1997, with an article published in every issue of the TechEdge (37 articles to date.) These are all archived online…