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Category: web 2.0

  • Wiki feedback for a podcast on technology leadership

    Louis Loeffler is the instructor for Cardinal Stritch University’s “Technology Leadership I” course. I received an email recently from Louis that he was having trouble accessing the podcast interview I posted last May with Dr. Scott Mcleod (“Podcast151: Dr. Scott McLeod on Administrator Idea-Sharing via Blogs, Digital Social Networking, and Educating Others for the Transition…

  • Talking K12Online07 with the Seedlings

    Darren Kuropatwa and I were guests on Bob Sprankle, Cheryl Oakes and Alice Barr’s wonderful “Seedlings” live webcast / podcast yesterday afternoon. What fun! Since I was attending the Oklahoma “Last Frontier Council’s Centennial Scout Camporee” in Lawton with my son, Bob was able to “skype out” to me on my cell phone so I…

  • Consider yourself tagged for K12Online07!

    Help us spread the word about the 2007 K-12 Online Conference, starting in just a few weeks on October 8th! The PR committee started their media blitz today, and one aspect of that effort is the 3 Reasons Meme. I’ve posted my 3 reasons to the K-12 Online Conference blog. Please post yours to your…

  • Another compelling reason to work online

    I learned this evening (via Darren Kuropatwa) that Google Documents has a wonderful new feature– online collaborative presentations! Google announced this on Monday. I’m eager to give this a try. There are several presentations (most notably my session on safe digital social networking) which I’ve repeatedly shared with others. (Download links to the slides of…

  • K-12 Online DEN Presentation on Slideshare

    Darren Kuropatwa and Lani Ritter-Hall will be presenting a webinar in an hour (at 7 pm Eastern Time today) for Discovery Education about the collaborative possibilities available via the FREE upcoming K-12 Online conference. Darren published their presentation slide deck to Slideshare today and it was immediately selected as a “featured slideshow!” I had wanted…

  • Podcast194: Global Voices: Distributed Learning Projects With Interactive Podcasting and VOIP Tools

    This podcast is a recording of my final session at the Learning 2.0 conference in Shanghai, China, on September 16, 2007. The title of my session was “Global Voices: Distributed Learning Projects With Interactive Podcasting and VOIP Tools.” The description of this session in the conference program was: Amazing new voice technologies are enabling classrooms…

  • Podcast193: Inventing The Future: Safely Empowering Learners in the Read/Write Society

    This podcast is a recording of my first morning session at the Learning 2.0 conference in Shanghai, China, on September 16, 2007. The title of my session was “Inventing The Future: Safely Empowering Learners in the Read/Write Society.” The description of this session in the conference program was: As Dr. Lawrence Lessig has observed, we…

  • Obama continues to embrace social networking tools

    Dan Pink’s latest blog post concerns U.S. Presidential hopeful Barack Obama and his use of the Linked In social network to query voters with the following question: How can the next president better help small business and entrepreneurs thrive? As of this writing, Senator Obama has received over 1481 replies. Just as teachers need to…

  • A great start to Learning 2.0

    Will exaggerated just a bit…. I actually just wrote 1 blog post and completed a partial podcast on the plane… my laptop battery juice didn’t let me do much more on our 13 and 3 hour flights to Tokyo and Shanghai! It was a long blog post tho, so I probably should have chunked it…

  • Hello from Shanghai!

    We had a good night sleep after finally arriving in China last night (it was morning “body time” from North America) and are ready for our first full day. I recorded a few thoughts on nine different images with VoiceThread, to share some of the things we’ve seen and noticed so far on our trip…