Category: disruptive-technology
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$15 fine for cell phone use during class
Don’t use your cell phone during class if you’re a student at Canyon High School, in Canyon, Texas. This prominently displayed sign around the school puts everyone on notice (I assume this does not apply to teachers, however) they’ll face a $15 fine for violating the district cell phone use policy. A few years ago…
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Using text messaging to prevent school violence (and other crimes)
The following poster is on display at Canyon High School in Canyon, Texas: Students (and adults) are invited to use text messaging to alert the authorities about weapons at school or other criminal behavior. This project is sponsored by “Student Crime Stoppers of Amarillo.” The official organizational website explains how this works with text messaging:…
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From 671 trains in a day to six: Transformations in travel and learning
This afternoon my girls and I were able to spend about an hour at Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, along with my sister and nephew. In addition to having some fun taking composite cartwheel pictures using Pano, we also learned a bit about the amazing history of Union Station and trains in the Kansas…
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Podcast353: Free, Online K-12 Education Options for ALL Oklahoma Students via Epic One on One Charter School
This podcast is an interview with David Chaney of Epic Charter Schools in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on June 25, 2010. In early-June 2010, Oklahoma governor Brad Henry signed Senate Bill 2319 into law which radically changes the groundrules for online, virtual learning in Oklahoma. In this podcast, David discusses the model of virtual learning which…
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Online video editing with Kaltura and Stroome
Following up on my browser-based video editing experiments with Jaycut earlier in the week, this evening I used the website Stroome.com to edit a short, four minute video about an outreach project of our local church in Edmond, Oklahoma. Stroome uses the open source Kaltura video editor, and this was my first time to use…
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Thinking today’s college eTextbooks are cheaper? Maybe not
This evening on the University of Central Oklahoma’s main announcements page on the faculty/staff/students portal, I noticed a message titled, “Textbook Rental Program Available Fall 2010.” It reads: Beginning with the Fall 2010 semester, Central students will have the option of renting textbooks from the UCO Barnes and Noble Bookstore. Students will have the option…
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ODLA 2010: Technology Trends
These are the slides for my presentation tomorrow at the 2010 Oklahoma Distance Learning Association‘s spring conference, on “Technology Trends in Higher Education.” This is a slightly tweaked version of the presentation I created from scratch and shared in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, on April 9th. That version is available as a poorly synchronized SlideCast on…
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A morning of Skype connections
Earlier this week I was contacted by Dave Winter in Hamilton, New Zealand, via a Skype-forwarded voicemail. Dave wanted to visit about Google Sites and how we’ve used it to configure our project wiki for Celebrate Oklahoma Voices. This morning I got on Skype and was able to visit “live” with Dave briefly before he…
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Podcast344: Technology Trends in Higher Education (April 2010)
What are the technology trends in April 2010 which college faculty need to understand and leverage to extend opportunities for student learning? This podcast is a recording of a presentation shared by Wesley Fryer at Northeastern State University in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, on 9 April 2010. This presentation addresses the following topics: Tablets, Cloud Computing,…