Category: distributed-learning
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Join K-12 Online Organizers Tomorrow (Sat Oct 5) on Classroom 2.0 Live
The amazing and free 2013 K-12 Online Conference is just a few weeks away, and tomorrow (Saturday, October 5 at Noon Eastern / 11 am Central / 10 am Mountain / 9 am Pacific) organizers will be talking about it on Classroom 2.0 Live! Please join us to learn more about the conference Saturday morning.…
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Playing BowSpleef with a Friend in Minecraft
We are getting ever-closer to the dream of gameplay on the holodeck of Star Trek. Last night my 10th grade son, who LOVES Minecraft, played some Minecraft mini-games on a shared server with a school friend. They audio skyped so they could talk as they played, since they were not physically together but playing from…
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Two Rising Stars In Africa: eLearning and the Kuali ERP
In 1997, while still working in Oklahoma, I attended a best practice site visit at the Colorado Community College system. The president of the system opened our visit by saying, “We have had requests from schools in your state to bring in classes….we are coming and there is nothing you can do about it.” I…
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Meet MacBookMaestro.com – A Free Digital Badge Powered Learning Site
This past week I shared three workshops for teachers in Yukon Public Schools on “MacBook Basics” and intermediate Mac OS X skills. All 500+ K-12 teachers in the district received new MacBook Air laptops last year, but most didn’t have many opportunities to learn new tips and tricks in Mac OS X. To provide more…
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Open Learning, Outside Learning, Leading Learning, & Building Learning
Have you participated in the K-12 Online Conference? It’s a free, annual online conference featuring some of the most innovative and inspiring educators from around the world – sharing great ideas for engaging students in deep learning using technology tools. The call for proposals, dates, and strands for the 2013 K-12 Online Conference have been…
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How Can I Webstream an Event?
This evening, in response to a Twitter question from Justin Staub, I created a 12 part MentorMob article series (technically it includes 11 articles and 1 audio podcast) addressing the question, “How Can I Webstream an Event?” There are multiple answers to this question, of course, which are appropriate for different situations depending on available…
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Emerging Insights on Learning, Technology, and the Road Ahead in Education
These are my notes from Mark Milliron‘s keynote, “Emerging Insights on Learning, Technology, and the Road Ahead in Education” and the 2013 Heartland eLearning Conference at the University of Central Oklahoma. Mark’s site: markmilliron.com Emerging insights – completion matters – swirl and blend – upward mobility is possible – get serious about play – learning…
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An Attempt to Redefine “Educationally Appropriate Online Courses” in Oklahoma
This evening I was scanning new education legislation proposed by Oklahoma representatives and senators in this year’s legislative session on LegiScan, and found Oklahoma Senate Bill 419 which was proposed last week on February 12th. I am NOT “fully” up to date on the landscape of K-12 virtual education options in Oklahoma, but I’m not…
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An #etmooc Distributed Digital Storytelling Activity about Beauty
Thanks to a tweet from Alec Couros, I joined in a wonderful 60 minute webinar shared by Darren Kuropatwa today about digital storytelling. This session is part of etmooc: A Massive Open Online Course on Educational Technology and Media. Topic #2 of #etmooc (for Feb 3-16) is Digital Storytelling. In the session Darren shared all…