Category: web 2.0
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Creating Immersive Learning Environments with Mixed Media by David Jakes #pbtechconf
These are my notes from David Jakes’ presentation “Creating Immersive Learning Environments with Mixed Media” at the 12th annual Palm Beach County Schools Technology Conference. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Official session description is: This session provides participants with an understanding of how to design interactive and immersive learning environments by blending…
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19 Oklahoma Schools Receive 2010-2011 1:1 laptop grant funds via ARRA
Congratulations to the following nineteen Oklahoma public school districts, who were awarded ARRA grant funds by the Oklahoma State Department of Education on Thursday, March 26, 2010. Anadarko Public Schools Briggs Public School Catoosa Public Schools Cordell Public Schools Crescent Public Schools Depew Public Schools Drumright Public Schools Gage Public Schools Grand View Public School…
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Google Reader Play – Just in time for iPad launch
I noticed a new option in my Google Reader this evening: Google Reader Play. Turns out the creative folks at Google announced this two weeks ago. You can choose to use Google Reader Play on ALL your subscriptions, or just for a particular folder / category. As you can see at the bottom of the…
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Podcast341: Discussing Fan Fiction, Harry Potter Stories, and InstaPaper for the iPod Touch
This podcast from the road features an interview with 12 year old Alexander, who discusses his extensive use of the website FanFiction to read imaginative book chapters written by other people around the world based on characters from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter book series. In the past year, Alexander has read approximately eight different books…
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Platforms for idea sharing are essential (even family learning blogs)
Hopefully, by the time my 6th grader gets out of high school, his teachers will be using a web-based learning management system (LMS) like Moodle to receive and track student assignments. There are LOTS of reasons a LMS can make life easier for both teachers and students. A big one is it can eliminate student…
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“Nothing “Flat” World about this Jazz: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education by Curt Bonk #heartlandconf10
These are my notes from Curtis Bonk’s opening keynote address, “Nothing ‘Flat’ World about this Jazz: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education” at the 2010 Heartland eLearning Conference hosted by the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The Heartland eLearning conference is on Twitter, has a conference…
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Heartland eLearning Conference: PI4BL Workshop
This morning I’m sharing a 3 hour pre-conference workshop at the Heartland eLearning Conference at UCO in Edmond, Oklahoma, on Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning. This workshop is customized for eLearning specialists and online instructors. To preserve past versions of this workshop, Karen Montgomery and I are archiving those versions as separate, saved pages on…
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Announcing Celebrate Kansas Voices! #mace2010
On behalf of our non-profit Story Chasers Inc. I’m pleased to announce the start of the Celebrate Kansas Voices project. (CKV) Celebrate Kansas Voices is a statewide digital storytelling project empowering learners to become digital witnesses, archiving local oral history and sharing that history safely on the global stage of the Internet. Our project is…