Category: disruptive-technology
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Blogging the Conference: EDUCAUSE 2012 Session Notes
The past three days I’ve been in Denver, blogging sessions from the 2012 EDUCAUSE conference for iThemes. iThemes is a WordPress and web design focused company in Edmond, Oklahoma, and I’ve been blogging on a contract basis for them past few months on the iThemes Education blog. (@ithemesEd on Twitter) This was my first time…
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Newsweek Going All Digital
Newsweek Magazine announced this week it is discontinuing its print version at the end of the year. The key statements in the article for me were the following: Tablet-use has grown rapidly among our readers and with it the opportunity to sustain editorial excellence through swift, easy digital distribution—a superb global platform for our award-winning…
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Captivated by the Tesla S Series Electric Car in Portland, Oregon
Today my wife and I traveled to Portland, Oregon, enroute to the Oregon Association of School Libraries 2012 Conference in Seaside where I’ll share a keynote tomorrow on “Mapping Media to the Common Core.” A couple weeks ago I heard the NPR segment, “Tesla’s Big Gamble: Can The Electric Car Go Mainstream” on the NPR…
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Digital Textbooks using iBooks (August 2012)
These are my notes from Martin Horejsi and Jason Neiffer‘s breakout session, “Digital Textbooks using iBooks,” on August 7, 2012, at the Blackfoot Educational Technology Conference in Missoula, Montana. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Some of the referenced links/websites from this session are on www.workshophandouts.com/ibooks. Audio podcast recordings of this session are…
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Opening Remarks by Janet Barresi: Oklahoma Digital Learning Summit
These are my notes from Janet Barresi‘s opening comments at the April 19, 2012, Oklahoma Digital Learning Summit in Oklahoma City. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. SEE ALL MY POSTS TAGGED “DLsummit2012” AS WELL AS MY TWEETS TAGGED “DLsummit2012.” This event is about Oklahoma’s solutions and Oklahoma’s innovations – what we are…
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Morning discussions on digital content, textbooks, & learning
These are my notes from our initial morning discussions on March 19, 2012, at the “Beyond the Textbook” forum in Washington D.C. Participants are included on this Twitter list. Follow these continuing discussions with the Twitter hashtag #beyondthetextbook. See my post from earlier today, “Required Reading for #beyondthetextbook” for more background. what should digital textbooks…
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Your Next Textbook Will be a Palantir
In advance of next week’s #beyondthetextbook forum hosted by Discovery Education, David Warlick has posted a good “fill in the blank” challenge on his blog: “The learning device(s) that our learners will walk into their classrooms with will be more like a ________________.” After submitting “palantir” on his Google form I responded with a comment:…
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The Emerging & the Extreme by Lee Crockett
These are my notes from Lee Crockett‘s keynote, “The Emerging & the Extreme,” on March 6, 2012, at the Heartland eLearning Conference at the University of Central Oklahoma. Lee’s website is “21st Century Fluency Project.” MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The official conference description of Lee’s keynote was: The world is no…
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Underwhelmed by iBooks Author Software
This afternoon I started a new eBook project using a collection of favorite Bible verses from the Friday morning men’s group at our church. The idea is pretty simple: Include verses from the NLT and MSG translations, complying with the copyright permissions for each provided on the YouVersion.com Bible website. Along with the verses, include…