Category: web 2.0
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161 Museums in Oklahoma!
I had a great visit this evening with Jason Schubert, a friend of mine from Lubbock who is the interim-director of the J.M. Davis Arms and Historical Museum in Claremore, Oklahoma. Jason told me about the Oklahoma Museums Association, which lists 161 Oklahoma-based museums on its website. This is an amazing list! I knew we…
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Will Richardson’s OTA09 Breakout – RSS: Connecting Ideas and Knowledge
These are my notes from Will Richardson’s first breakout session at OTA 2009 on February 10, 2009, in Oklahoma City, titled “RSS: Connecting Ideas and Knowledge.” MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Showing how he can add tags to different blog posts he follows in Google Reader – separating tags with commas –…
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Opening Session: Oklahoma Technology Association Conference 2009
These are my notes from the Oklahoma Technology Association (OTA) 2009 Conference opening session on 10 Feb 2009. Will Richardson is our keynote speaker this morning. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Opening comments from Oklahoma State Superintendent Sandy Garrett Mid-1980s: I was the first director of rural education and technology – not…
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eTechOhio, School Reform Ideas and Smaller PDF Files
I’ve been making a few last-minute tweaks for my keynote tomorrow at eTechOhio 2009, titled “Reinventing Education for the 21st Century (Designing School 2.0).” Today enroute to Columbus I read more of Clayton Christensen’s book “Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns” and watched (in the Chicago Midway airport) the…
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AMTRAK discount for NECC 2009
I just posted “TAKE A TRAIN TO NECC 2009!” on the ISTEconnects blog. Could this be our first opportunity to realize the dream of the Storychaser’s Peace Train? 🙂 Technorati Tags: necc09#, necc09, necc2009, iste, train, travel, storychaser, storychasers, peacetrain, peace
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Feedburner stats drop after Google account merge
Last night I logged into Feedburner and heeded the site’s recommendation to “update” my account by merging it to use the standard Google authentication scheme. I probably should have done more background reading first. Back in September, Alex Chitu described some of the problems others have had with the Google-Feedburner marriage. This evening I glanced…
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Student Storychasers in Washington DC this week
I’ve just shared the post “Colorado students blog inauguration experiences” on the ISTEconnects blog, which includes some background about the fantastic “When History Happens” project affiliated with the larger “Teaching with Primary Sources – Colorado” initiative. The U.S. Library of Congress is a partner in this collaboration. I’m thrilled this initiative has started in Oklahoma…
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Podcast299: Dreaming of the Storychaser’s Peace Train
This podcast is a bit of an ecclectic mix of ideas, song snippets, and educational project ideas. Foundationally, these relate to the idea that we’re going to have an enduring need to help younger students as well as older learners use digital tools in powerful, appropriate, and constructive ways. Whether we use the words citizen…
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Keep family and friends informed of hospital and health updates with CaringBridge
In December of 2007 a friend of mine was diagnosed with cancer, and spent essentially all of 2008 battling it in a fight for her life. Thankfully, after a bone marrow transplant and a multitude of other treatments, she made it through that dark valley in her life and is doing very well now. This…