Category: web 2.0
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Featured speaker at Oklahoma Encyclo-Media
I was happy to see the program (PDF) for our upcoming state librarian and media specialist conference in Oklahoma, “Encyclo-Media,” that I am listed (on page 7) as a “featured speaker.” This may not sound like a big deal, since I have had the opportunity to keynote and provide spotlight presentations at various conferences the…
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Whitelisting websites – what a pain!
It’s a shame I have to do this, but c’est la vie with current content filtering methods in many school districts. This whitelist is for Monday’s workshops on “Digital Storytelling” and “Using Google and Yahoo Tools for Educational Research and Collaboration.”
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Report from EduComm 2007
An article I wrote in June for District Administration magazine titled “Report from EduComm 2007” is now online at their site. The photo on page 2 of the article next to the heading “The Power of Digital Photography and Music” is of Scott Perloff (another EduComm ’07 presenter) giving me a fast lesson in MicroWorlds…
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1st Scratch Lesson with Alexander
Alexander (my 9 year old) gave me my first lesson on how to program in Scratch today – WOW! I am so amazed. Our first lesson lasted 45 minutes long. Alexander is the “expert” on Scratch in our house because he’s spent a total of 4-5 hours playing with the program so far. I had…
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Let’s work together, shall we?!
I love this new Creative Commons film about working together! I also love the website where I found it: dotSUB, an all-volunteer effort to encourage multi-language closed captioning of video content. Give the video a try: It is currently 100% available in 12 languages, and the German version is about one-third complete. Click the arrows…
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VoiceThread versus BubbleShare
Inspired by Bob Sprankle and his posted VoiceThread for BLC 2007, I played with VoiceThread myself for the first time recently and created a narrated slideshow of images taken at NECC 2007 and shared on Flickr. You can both view and leave comments (via text and audio) to this VoiceThread. VERY cool! Voicethread is very…
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Make eBooks, webpages, quizzes and other content iPod-mobile!
We wrapped up our 3 day “Digital Learning Academy” yesterday with teachers in Mustang, Oklahoma and in St. Louis, Missouri, with teachers sharing the results and learning points from their collaborative projects at the end of the day via a H.323 videoconference connection. Teachers used del.icio.us, Ning, Flickr, and/or PBWiki to create three different projects…
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Tell a story with 5 photos for educators
In the second day of our digital learning academy workshop in St Louis, Missouri, and Mustang, Oklahoma, teachers at each site did an activity we called “Tell a story with 5 photos.” Rather than join the existing Flickr group “Tell a story in 5 frames (Visual story telling)” we created and joined a new Flickr…
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Digital Twitter Olympics
Here’s a new thought: As a conference presentation or an educator workshop activity, why don’t people start holding “Digital Twitter Olympics?” I’ve written up the basic ideas and guidelines on the following wiki: http://twitterolympics.pbwiki.com Please take a look and edit/change the guidelines you see there, and also comment here to share your thoughts. The password…