Category: socialnetworking
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Learning about Digital Citizenship with Carl Hooker
The past two days, Carl Hooker (@mrhooker) shared a series of outstanding presentations on digital citizenship with students, parents, faculty and staff at my school (Casady School) in Oklahoma City. I have known Carl for many years, and had a chance to participate in his amazing iPadPalooza conference in Austin in 2014. I attended his Miami Device 2015 session…
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Inside and Outside Digital Sharing
This past Friday, my wife (@sfryer) and I facilitated a full-day, hands-on workshop about ways to use iPads in the classroom with students to “show what they know with media.” 164 teachers participated in the workshop, which was held in two adjacent ballrooms of the Alumni Center at Kansas State University. The event, iCamp iPad…
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Podcast 436: The Technology Director Speaks
11 topics in 67 minutes! In this podcast recording, Dr. Wesley Fryer shares some updates about his new position this year as a school technology director, previews “iPad Media Camp in a box” for summer 2016, shares his current favorite podcasts and audiobooks, discusses lessons learned about fiber optic cabling, and lessons learned from seven videoconferences…
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Our Daughter Plays Minecraft with International YouTubers
Our youngest daughter, Rachel, has become a pretty amazing Minecraft guru in the past year. I initially taught her to play, but the HOURS she has invested in playing, watching Minecraft YouTuber videos, and creating her own videos have catapulted her far beyond my own meager Minecraft skills into the digital stratosphere. She’s recorded some…
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Podcast 434: Discovering Useful New Ideas as a Connected Educator (October 2015)
This podcast primarily features a recording from the October 22, 2015, OACTE, OEQA, OATE Fall Conference in Edmond, Oklahoma, held at the University of Central Oklahoma. The recorded session was my breakout presentation titled, “Discovering Useful New Ideas as a Connected Educator: Tips for Using Flipboard, Pocket, Twitter and Nuzzel.” Check out the podcast shownotes…
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July 11, 2015: Student Journalism / Storychaser Club 101 Workshop
(cross-posted from Storychasers.org) Please register soon for a remarkable opportunity: A 4 hour, hands-on workshop including $150 of digital media production equipment, for just $20! This workshop will be held in Oklahoma City on Saturday, July 11, 2015, from 9 am to 1 pm at the Oklahoma Public School Resource Center. The OPSRC is located at…
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Digital Neighborhood Watch (Nextdoor.com) & Model Use of Twitter by Local Police
Today Rachel and I have been in Manhattan, Kansas, visiting my parents, and we participated in their annual neighborhood picnic. It’s officially “Manhattan Day,” since it’s the first Saturday in June, and neighborhoods around the city are encouraged to get together and celebrate with potluck picnics. The City of Manhattan supports these events by granting free permits…
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Clear Signs of Digitally Connected School Leaders
Are the leaders in your school and/or school district digitally connected? Being a connected educator today is one of the most important hallmarks of effective twenty-first century leadership. How do you know if your school leaders are connected educators? The links and “interactive channels” provided to social media accounts on official school websites can provide…
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Thanks to Donors Choose Supporters of Classroom Sphero Project
Today I finalized the thank you letter and submitted photos for our fall classroom Sphero project on Donor’s Choose. Thanks to the generosity of our donors we now have THREE additional Sphero robotic balls to use in Makers Studio during STEM class. Here’s the letter I submitted to our donors along with six photographs. If…
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Thanks OKeducationTruths (Rick Cobb) For Your Courage & Leadership
Tonight was a momentous evening for Oklahoma education. Not only was it one of the most lively #OklaEd twitter chats in which I’ve participated to date, it also was the evening the author of the extremely important and influential blog, OKeducationTruths revealed his true identity. Tailgating before the big reveal #oklaed pic.twitter.com/Rn3n0dTjIx — okeducationtruths (@okeducation) January 19,…