Category: web 2.0
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Podcast201: So The World Is Flat. Now What?
This podcast is a recording of my keynote address at the TechForum Southwest conference sponsored by Technology and Learning on November 2, 2007. Schools need to change to better prepare students for the dynamic challenges and opportunities of the 21st century “flat world” highlighted by Tom Friedman in his book “The World is Flat.” The…
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How Can I Create a Podcast? Let Me Count the Ways! (notes from Lance Ford’s preso)
These are my notes from Lance Ford’s ODLA 2007 presentation, “How Can I Create a Podcast? Let Me Count the Ways!” Part of this session is archived and recorded on the Howe Public Schools’ Tandberg Content Server. (Lance created this podcast DURING our workshop today, because he is using the latest version of the Tandberg…
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Lance Ford, Live on Podcasting
Lance Ford from Howe Public Schools (Oklahoma) is about to start his workshop on “How Can I Create a Podcast? Let Me Count the Ways!” at ODLA 2007. Watch his preso live via the Howe Public Schools’ Tandberg Content Server: http://164.58.224.88/tcs/ I am recording his session with audio and will post subsequently as a podcast…
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Listening to Jeff Utecht from Kuala Lumpur
This is just amazing. Thanks to Jeff Utecht’s update on twitter, my daughter and I are watching him present to administrators now in Kuala Lumpur about using RSS and news readers. Wow. As I said today in my keynote for ODLA 2007 today, “For those with access, the world is flatter than ever.”
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Social Bookmarking with Del.icio.us: It’s about Information, Collaboration, and Access
These are my notes from the presentation “Social Bookmarking with Del.icio.us: It’s about Information, Collaboration, and Access” by Lee Anne Morris and Scot Ertl at the ODLA 2007 conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Nov 5, 2007. My comments/refelctions are ALL IN CAPS. Lee Anne and Scott are with “The Eighth Floor: A Technology and Learning…
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Free web-based audio conferencing
These are my notes from Dr. Gary Loving and Kun Huang’s presentation on “Free web-based audio conferencing” at ODLA 2007. involves a voice stream and a data stream going to use Yugma and Skype in our demos today Needs – increasing online course offerings – asynchronous online communication does not satisfy all instructional needs —…
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No Ustream today
Well, the wireless connection at the ODLA conference isn’t permitting a connection to Ustream, so we won’t have a live stream of the keynote today. The ODLA folks are videotaping the presentation for subsequent posting online, and I will make an audio recording to publish later as a podcast. Sorry, no live feed today. Technorati…
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ODLA Keynote Monday – Live and Recorded
I’m sharing the keynote address Monday morning in Tulsa at the Oklahoma Distance Learning Association’s annual conference. The theme of the conference is “Web 2.0 in Education,” and the title of my keynote is “Inventing the Future: Safely Empowering Learners In the Read/Write Society.” This is a completely different rewrite of the session I shared…
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Creating geographic information connections with Google Maps
This afternoon and evening I spent about three hours with my 9 year old son, and about 4 hours on my own, exploring and creating with the new features of Google Maps. I was inspired to do so by David Jakes, who gave a WONDERFUL presentation on Friday at TechForum in Austin about both Google…