Category: web 2.0
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How to Boil the Ocean: Lessons of Blogging for Online Discussions by @berlinf #heartlandconf11
These are my notes from Berlin Fang’s presentation, “How to Boil the Ocean: Lessons of Blogging for Online Discussions” at the 2011 Heartland eLearning Conference on March 8th. Follow him on Twitter: @berlinf. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. See my notes from Berlin’s preso at last year’s conference, “Putting Learning In Student…
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Cloudy is a Good Thing!: Enhancing Instruction with Tools from the Cloud #heartlandconf11
These are my notes from Kent Brooks‘ presentation, “Cloudy is a Good Thing!: Enhancing Instruction with Tools from the Cloud” at the 2011 Heartland eLearning Conference on March 8th. Follow him on Twitter: @kentbrooks. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Kent’s website is kentbrooks.ning.com. Kent is the Chief Information Officer at Western Oklahoma…
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Register for #iste11 BYOL: Simple Ideas for Powerful Sharing
Registration is OPEN for my free ISTE 2011 BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) session, Simple Ideas for Powerful Sharing. The short description is, “Let’s explore a variety of free, simple ways to share text and rich media (audio, photos, video, and geomaps) with a global audience.” This free session will be offered at the Pennsylvania…
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How to Subscribe to a Website as a Channel in Google Reader, and Categorize / Organize it in a Folder
The following three minute screencast demonstrates how to “subscribe” to a website as a new “channel” of information using Google Reader, and then organize or categorize that “feed” in a folder. Google Reader is a free news aggregator which can be used to create customized, digital newspapers. It integrates well into phenomenal applications like FlipBoard…
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Teacher Blog Controversy in Pennsylvania Points to Need for Social Media Guidelines
Don’t post profanity on a blog or any other social media website, especially if you’re a teacher in a public school. That advice shouldn’t sound outlandish to anyone, but it would apparently be news to Natalie Munroe, a currently-suspended teacher in Pennsylvania’s Central Bucks School District. According to yesterday’s Montgomery Media article, “Teacher blog controversy…
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Set Up a Moderated Class Blog on Posterous
In response to a question posted by Kansas teacher Marsha Ratzel, I created an eleven minute screencast this evening describing the steps for creating a moderated class blog (for FREE) on the website Posterous.com. One of the most significant advantages of using a Posterous blog as a class website is that rich media (text, images,…
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24-25 February 2011: Google Tools Workshops in Claremore, Oklahoma (Tulsa area)
I’m pleased to announce I’ll be repeating the two-day “Google Tools” BYOL (bring your own laptop) workshops I presented in December in Oklahoma City for educators in the Tulsa area on Thursday, February 24 and Friday, February 25th in Claremore, Oklahoma. You can attend either face-to-face or virtually. The Claremore campus of Northeast Technology Center…
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Snow Day Scratch Fun: Using the Broadcast Tag
Today is another snow day for my girls who attend in Edmond Public Schools, so this morning we spent some time learning more and playing in Scratch. I’m starting a multi-week Scratch unit with my “Technology 4 Teachers” students next week, so I needed to get back into the program and spend some time with…