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Category: web 2.0

  • THINK Global School: Education without Walls by Janice Cheng

    These are my notes from Janice Cheng’s presentation, “THINK Global School: Education without Walls” at the 21st Century Learning @ the West Lake Expo held Oct 31 – Nov 3, 2009 at Xi Hu, China, also known as West Lake. West Lake is in the center of Hangzhou, China, which is about an hour by…

  • The dilemma presented by China’s content filtering of my current handouts website

    It’s a great pleasure and honor to be in China again, this time for the 21st Century Learning @ the West Lake Expo held Oct 31 – Nov 3, 2009 in Hangzhou, China. This is my 3rd visit to China– I was in Hong Kong this past September, and in Shanghai in 2007. This current…

  • Rate your Chinese police officer’s performance in immigration

    This was a bit of an unusual sight in the Shanghai customs line: A push-button interface at the immigration station for travelers to rate the performance of the Chinese police officer who was reviewing your passport and visa. There were four different levels of satisfaction, designated by the smiley faces and text labels underneath each…

  • The Digital Generation: Up Close and Personal by Milton Chen

    These are my notes from Milton Chen’s presentation, “The Digital Generation: Up Close and Personal” at the 21st Century Learning @ the West Lake Expo held Oct 31 – Nov 3, 2009 at Xi Hu, China, also known as West Lake. West Lake is in the center of Hangzhou, China, which is about an hour…

  • ISTE’s Global Digital-Age Learning, Teaching, and Education Leadership Skills by Don Knezek

    These are my notes from the opening speeches and Don Knezek’s opening keynote address at the 21st Century Learning @ the West Lake Expo, titled “ISTE’s Global Digital-Age Learning, Teaching, and Education Leadership Skills.” This conference is taking place at Xi Hu, China, also known as West Lake. West Lake is in the center of…

  • Is your nonprofit leveraging the power of YouTube?

    Now that I’m the executive director of Story Chasers Inc., an Oklahoma nonprofit focused on digital storytelling and our state oral history project, I definitely am more attuned to issues related to nonprofits and effective “story sharing.” Thanks to Beth Kanter, I learned today about Michael Hoffman‘s recent presentation (available via a Slidecast on SlideShare)…

  • Bob Sprankle’s Reflections on our Podcasting Journeys in Podcast 100

    Bob Sprankle, who I had the great pleasure of meeting in person AT LAST two weeks ago at ACTEM09 in Maine, published his 100th podcast on Bit-by-Bit last week. Bob reflected on “the podcasting journey” with Scott Lockman, Cheryl Oakes, Alice Barr, and yours truly. I’m honored to be included in this august group of…

  • OKC WordPress User’s Group Meeting – Oct 2009

    These are my notes from the Oklahoma City WordPress User’s Group Meeting on 26 October 2009. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS, EVERYTHING ELSE IS NOTES TAKEN DURING THE SESSION. In attendance tonight. David North (user group organizer) Burt Bones burtbone.com – builds WordPress sites for other people Chris Jean – chrisjean.com –…

  • Podcast332: WordPress Saves Lives – Learn How #actem09

    This podcast is a recording of the ACTEM 2009 conference breakout session, “WordPress Saves Lives – Learn How,” by Wesley Fryer on October 16, 2009. ACTEM is the Association of Computer Technology Educators in Maine, and their 2009 conference was held in Augusta. The official conference description for this session was: WordPress is a free,…

  • Visualizing social media publishing – LIVE

    Social media is growing quickly, but just HOW quickly? Gary Hayes has created an embeddable widget which helps visualize the explosive, real-time growth of social media. I’m going to share this with teachers during my keynote tomorrow morning at the 2009 Kansas Association of Teachers of English (KATE) conference in Wichita. The conference theme this…