Category: web 2.0
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Video podcast from the Konza
The Infinite Thinking Machine’s Video Podcast #4: Welcome to the Blogosphere includes a video segment my 8 year old son recorded with me on the Konza prairie near Manhattan, Kansas over Thanksgiving break. In it I reflect about how the information landscape of the 21st century is similar to the “wild west” of the North…
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Winter Interactive Educator
The Winter 2006 issue of Smart’s free Interactive Educator magazine is now available. (PDF format) My article, “Lowdown on RSS Feeds,” is on pages 42-43. Here’s the intro to the piece: The term RSS may be part of the normal vocabulary of teachers attending conferences like the National Educational Computing Conference, but mention RSS to…
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2006 Edublog Awards
Two educational blogs and blogging / professional development projects with which I’m involved have been nominated for the 2006 Edublog Awards. The educational Blogger community has nominated the K12 Online Conference blog for this year’s International Edublog Awards in the category of ‘Most Influential Post, Resource or Presentation’! The nomination of the K12 Online Conference…
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Intermediate/Advanced Topics in Podcasting
I co-taught a new workshop Friday via videoconference for teachers here in Edmond Public Schools (Oklahoma) and teachers at a distance in Rockwall ISD (Texas) titled “Intermediate/Advanced Topics in Podcasting.” Vicki Allen facilitated the group in Rockwall, which included over 30 teachers, administrators and support personnel in the district. We had just four of us…
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Professional collaborative wiki writing
NPR carried an interesting piece on November 28th titled “Using the Wiki Method to Write a Business Book.” I heard this earlier in the week as I listened to the NPR Technology Podcast, which is a great collection (about 20 minutes of audio per episode) of technology stories from different programs in the past week.…
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Computer audio help
During a workshop on podcasting I taught recently, participants had some trouble getting the microphones connected to their WindowsXP computers to work. The website www.audiohelp.info uses a browser-based Flash program to test your speakers and microphone, and works for computers running Windows or Macintosh OS X. This website is provided for free by YackPack, but…
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Online music collaboration tools
I just love articles that include phrases like, “The only limit is the teacher’s imagination!” According to last week’s eSchool News article, “Music education moves online: Web 2.0 technologies, broadband access fuel extension of music education beyond:” Using eJamming Studio 1.5, musicians can plug their MIDI-enabled digital instruments–keyboards, guitars, bass guitars, drum kits, and wind…
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K-12 Online reflections
It was a great learning experience as well as privilege to serve as a convener this fall for K-12 Online. In the weeks ahead I’m thinking I’ll be putting more ideas, reflections and responses about the conference down in writing and possibly in some podcasts. Here are a few thoughts I drafted tonight. K-12 Online…
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Dabble offers powerful webvideo search
As the number of webvideo sites continues to proliferate (as information online in general continues to grow) the most apparent challenge is wading through an overwhelmingly large quantity of content to find relevant, high quality material that is entertaining or of use for a particular purpose. This morning I discovered Dabble via a CNN Business…
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China, WikiPedia, Flickr, Web 2.0 and The Tank Man
I was pleased to learn today (via Jeremy Goldkorn) that China has chosen to unblock WikiPedia. Andrew Lih theorizes the reason for the unblock is that WikiPedia is value neutral, and the Chinese government is glimpsing the constructive power of the read/write web. He writes: I believe it was because of the argument Jimmy Wales…