Category: web 2.0
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Drug violence in Mexico is bad: VERY bad
I spent a year living in Mexico City during 1992-1993 studying and writing about a variety of security issues including the U.S. led “war on drugs.” My longest paper from that research era, “US Drug Control in the Americas: Time for a Change,” reviewed historical and contemporary efforts (as of 1993) to combat the scourge…
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NECC button winner: “Here for the learning revolution!”
Dr. Scott Mcleod (over at Dangerously Irrelevant) and I have selected a winner for the button contest Scott announced back in April. That button and contest idea was inspired by my April 16th post and book title claim, “Here For The Learning Revolution.” The winning design was created by Bill Moseley: If you visit Bill’s…
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Thank you Vicki Davis!
I want to publicly thank the world-famous Vicki Davis for taking some time out of her busy schedule the last day of school today to videoconference with about 15 teachers in Asher Public School in Asher, Oklahoma. Vicki and Julie Lindsay won numerous awards (ISTE SIGTel Online Learning Award 2007, Edublog Best Wiki Award 2006,…
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K12Online08 theme and keynote selection criteria
If you have not already, be sure to mark your fall (northern hemisphere) or spring (southern hemisphere) calendar for the 2008 K-12 Online Conference. The 2008 conference theme is “Amplifying Possibilities.” This year’s conference begins with a pre-conference keynote the week of October 13, 2008. The following two weeks, October 20-24 and October 27-31, forty…
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A challenge to embrace digital texts
(I have shared the following as a new post on the TechLearning blog, but because of problems with the commenting setup there I am cross-posting here so you can leave comments if desired.) This past week, thanks to Bob Sprankle’s “geek of the week” on the May 8th edition of the Bit by Bit podcast,…
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Presentations from Richardson, Texas this morning
Both my keynote address and the session I co-presented with Vicki Allen were broadcast live over the web this morning from Richardson, Texas, and are available as archived videos. If you watched either or both of these videos “live” or view the archived versions, please leave comments and feedback here! Unfortunately the chat feature of…
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Talkin’ bout the revolution…
I’m sharing the keynote address tomorrow morning here in Richardson, Texas, for Education Service Center Region 10’s 14th Annual Technology Planning Conference. The theme this year is “Assessment for a Web 2.0 World.” I shared a keynote here two years ago titled “The Vocabulary of 21st Century Learning.” It would be interesting to compare my…
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Article consumption on the go
Many thanks to Bob Sprankle for mentioning the outstanding website readthewords.com on the most recent episode (May 4) of Bit by Bit. I’m going to be driving in a car at least fourteen hours in the next three days, and I’ve used readthewords.com to convert three articles about coursecasting into mp3 audio files I can…
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Inside the K-12 Online Conference: Episode 1
Following our conveners meeting for the 2008 K-12 Online Conference this evening over skype, we recorded a short (approx. 10 minute) discussion of the length changes for presentations in this year’s conference. Please give a listen and share your comments and feedback on the podcast blog post. 🙂 Technorati Tags: k12online08, k12online, online, learning, conference