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Social Media in the Classroom: Amplifying our Students by Jennie Magiera & Autumn Laidler

These are my notes from Jennie Magiera and Autumn Laidler‘s ISTE 2013 breakout session, “Social Media in the Classroom: Amplifying our Students.” Subscribe to Autumn’s blog, “Science in the City,” and Jennie’s blog, “Teaching Like It’s 2999.” I’m audio recording this session to podcast later, MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Lots of…

June 26, 2013
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…

June 7, 2013
Student “Confession Pages” Trend Highlights Free Speech Issues & Need to Address Ethics / Digital Citizenship

This past Thursday during our second “Mapping Media to the Common Core” Montana cohort class meeting via videoconference, I learned about the trend of “student confession pages” among high school as well as college/university students in some places. I was first alerted to this thanks to a discussion in the ePUB ebook chapter I wrote…

March 16, 2013
Using TweetChat to Follow Educational Twitter Chats

This evening we had our second Oklahoma Education Chat on Twitter, using the #oklaEd hashtag. We’re meeting at 8 pm CST on Sunday nights, which is a great time but also a popular one for Twitter Chats. Our first EdCampOKC was the catalyst for these ongoing education Twitter chats a week ago on February 23rd,…

March 3, 2013
Designing Out-of-the-Box College Course Assignments that Students Care About

These are my notes from Caleb Lack‘s “Lunch and Think Talk” at the 2013 Heartland eLearning Conference in Edmond, Oklahoma, at the University of Central Oklahoma. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Caleb’s YouTube channel is professorlack. Typical college course writing process 1- student writes 2- teacher reads 3- no one cares I wanted to…

February 25, 2013
Open Sharing Leads to eBook Inspiration: Indonesia to Minnesota to Oklahoma

This evening I responded to Alan Levine’s call for video contributions to his wonderful project, “True Stories of Open Sharing.” My 5 minute submission is titled, “Open Sharing Leads to eBook Inspiration: Indonesia to Minnesota to Oklahoma.” These are the links I included in the YouTube video description: Twitter collaborators in this story include: http://twitter.com/thehomeworkdog…

February 25, 2013
Podcast399: Cell Phone Digital Storytelling with Narrable – An Interview with Dustin Curzon

This podcast is an audio recording of an interview with Dustin Curzon, one of the co-founders of Narrable. According to Dustin, “Narrable is for intergenerational stories that matter.” Dustin is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Together with Narrable co-founders in Phoenix, Arizona, and the development team in Bangalore, India, Narrable is growing into a platform which…

February 19, 2013
Playing with FeedWordPress: Planning for the Classroom Newspaper of Now

Clay Shirky contends what many people perceive as “information overload” in their lives today is actually “filter failure.” Immense quantities of information criss-cross our planet at the speed of light 24/7, so our abilities to effectively filter and purposefully direct flows of information have become important literacy skills. In this post, I’m going to share…

February 4, 2013
FREE Playing with Media Meetups in Oklahoma City in 2013

To share ideas, apps, and tools for creating different kinds of multimedia products with teachers, parents, homeschoolers and students, I’m going to start offering monthly “Playing with Media Meetups” in Oklahoma City starting in January 2013.

December 31, 2012
AudioBoo Websites and Ports to Unblock on Your School Internet Content Filter

AudioBoo is a fantastic, free website and mobile app for students to use to create “narrated art” as well as other kinds of short audio recordings about their curricular assignments. If you want to use AudioBoo on a school network, however, you need to be sure the following websites and “ports” are UNBLOCKED on your…

December 10, 2012

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