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Category: web 2.0

  • Getting a Global Perspective – The Power of Collaborative Projects by Dyane Smokorowski

    These are my notes from “Getting a Global Perspective – The Power of Collaborative Projects” by Dyane Smokorowski at the PodStock09 conference in Wichita, Kansas. Her wiki with links for this session is on: http://podstock.wik.is MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. THIS IS VERY SIMILAR STRUCTURE WISE TO DR JUDY HARRIS’ TELECOMPUTING PROJECTS FRAMEWORK WHICH…

  • Visualizing Twitter

    I created the following image using Twitter Mosaic and stitched the images together from separate screen captures using SeaShore. This is rather overwhelming, particularly when I consider how FEW educators (overall) are utilizing social networking tools like Twitter currently. Thanks to everyone in my Twitter PLN who replied to my inquiry / tweet today about…

  • Podcast313: Top 10 Reasons to Be a StoryChaser

    Storychasing is using digital recording devices to create, archive and share digital stories on the web. Story Chasers, Inc. is a new nonprofit, educational organization incorporated in the state of Oklahoma which presents the Celebrate Oklahoma Voices oral history project in partnership with a variety of other Oklahoma organizations. In this podcast, recorded on the…

  • Ideas for proactively planning for a school crisis with message mapping

    These are my notes on Jay Garant‘s opening session “27 Words-9 Seconds-3 Messages: Message Mapping” at the Oklahoma School Public Relations Association conference on 23 April 2009 at Quartz Mountain Resort. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Jay Garant is the Coordinator of Business and Community Partnerships for Fairfax County Public Schools –…

  • Advice and wisdom on school public relations

    These are a few notes I jotted down on my iPhone using EverNote during our opening “networking” activity at the Oklahoma School Public Relations Association conference today at Quartz Mountain. This was the format: Everyone was given a slip of paper with a number and seven different numbers in a random order, which corresponded to…

  • Advice for a higher education digital learning advocacy presentation

    A friend of mine and higher education professor I greatly respect, Dr. Cyndi Danner-Kuhn, is sharing a presentation in two weeks at the Dean’s Leadership Symposium at the University of Missouri for other professors. She asked me for some ideas and suggestions for her presentation. These are my thoughts. photo credit: vectorfunk Focus on content…

  • A Slidecast on Designing School 2.0

    I’ve added a mp3 audio recording to my previously posted Slideshare of my eTechOhio09 keynote, “Reinventing Education for the 21st Century (Designing School 2.0.)” I used the provided, web-based syncrhonization tools on SlideShare to sync my slides with the audio, so this presentation is now available as a “Slidecast.” Reinventing Education for the 21st Century…

  • Podcast312: Reinventing Education for the 21st Century (Designing School 2.0)

    This podcast is a recording of my opening keynote session at the 2009 eTechOhio conference, held in Columbus, Ohio, on February 2, 2009. This is the audio-only mp3 version, a video podcast version is available on the eTechOhio09 portal in iTunesU Ohio. Check the podcast shownotes for a direct link to iTunes. The official conference…

  • Podcast311: Digital Magic Tricks – An ecclectic series of digital learning tools and techniques

    This podcast is a recording of my presentation at the Oklahoma Technology Association (OTA) conference on February 11, 2009, in Oklahoma City. Check the podcast shownotes for links to the session wiki, which includes referenced websites and tools as well as others we didn’t have time to address in this session. The official program description…

  • Geo-StoryChasing and Gabcast call limits

    I’ve created a new presentation and workshop I’m calling, “Geo-StoryChasing.” I’ve listed a variety of mobile audio, video, and photo sharing options (many supporting geolocation) on the wiki curriculum page I started. If you know of others I should include, please let me know by commenting here. This is the short description for this session:…