Category: web 2.0
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Storychasing Follow Me Sunday with an iPad2 and iRig Mic
We need to encourage more people to become “storychasers” modeling ethical, responsible, and constructive uses of social media technologies. Storychasers can and should utilize mobile videography tools and “quick edit” journalism platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and blogging websites to document causes and events in our communities. This post features some examples of this kind of…
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Use a Google Docs Spreadsheet to Send Text Message Alerts to Students
SMS or cell phone text messaging alerts can be extremely handy. Research shows most people read text message alerts almost immediately, and when students have an unlimited text messaging plan no additional costs are incurred by them to receive SMS updates. The last three semesters I’ve used the lowest commercial version of TextMarks to send…
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The Roadmap to Blended Learning and the #playingwithmedia Classroom Challenge
I’m presenting a repeated workshop for teachers in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, Monday. I’ve titled the presentation, “The Roadmap to Blended Learning.” The session description is: What is blended learning and why should educators embrace it? How can we move towards a vision of blended learning in our schools? This session presents an OVERVIEW, WAYPOINTS, and…
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Capture: Setting Up Traps to Organize Mountains of Information #wildtech
These are my notes from Jason Neiffer‘s breakout presentation, “Capture: Setting Up Traps to Organize Mountains of Information,” at the 14th Annual August Institute, “Technology Runs Through It” conference at the University of Montana in Missoula. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Jason’s awesome high school debate website is bigskydebate.com Jason’s resources for…
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Transformative Personal Connections in a Hyperconnected World #blackfootETC
Since arriving in Missoula a few hours ago, I’ve noticed some slight climatic differences between Montana and Oklahoma this month. Tuesday I’ll be sharing the opening keynote at the 2011 Educational Technology Conference, “Building Human Connections in a Digital World.” Use the Twitter hashtag #blackfootetc to follow the conference the next three days. A number…
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Other People’s Photos Showing Up in my TwitPic Photo Stream
Please shed some light on this TwitPic mystery if you can. A month or so ago, my mom (who subscribes to my TwitPic account feed in her news reader) told me some strange photos were showing up in my stream. I tried to replicate what she was seeing and couldn’t. The strange photos were not…
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Explaining Telecommunications Convergence and Its Opportunities via Video
What’s the untold epiphany that inspires your project? The Internet is the ideal platform for sharing experiences. These and other messages are included in the 4.5 minute video, “How the Internet Is Changing Advertising” by Epipheo Studios. This video isn’t just about marketing. It’s about technological and communications convergence, the ways we’re increasingly processing digital,…