Category: globalvoices
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Podcast268: Conversations with Scott Swanson and April Hope about the first OLPC High School Student Chapter, 1 to 1 Laptop Immersion with Tablet PCs, and EduBloggerCon 2008 Student Reflections
This podcast includes interviews with Scott Swanson, the Strategic Technology Coordinator at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora, Illinois, recorded in March and July of 2008, as well as April Hope, a 2008 graduate of IMSA and Scott’s current intern. They discuss the activities of IMSA students in forming the first OLPC (XO…
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Podcast266: Open Minds, Open Education, and a View of Open Culture by David Thornburg (NECC 2008)
This podcast features a recording of David Thornburg’s NECC 2008 presentation “Open Minds, Open Education, and a View of Open Culture.” The official conference program description and purpose / objectives for this session were: This talk explores how open education and culture are supported by 1:1 computing facilitated with open source tools, worldwide. True universal…
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Notes from Jim Carleton And Mali Bickley’s keynote at NECC 2008
These are my notes from notes from Jim Carleton And Mali Bickley’s keynote at NECC 2008 in San Antonio on 1 July 2008. Jim and Mali were introduced by Lester Hope, and Lester facilitated a television-style interview “show” with them as a NECC keynote. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. According to the…
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Open Minds: Open Education and Open Culture by David Thornburg
These are my notes from David Thornburg’s NECC 2008 presentation “Open Minds: Open Education and Open Culture” on June 30, 2008. David has granted me permission to non-commercially record and share this presentation subsequently. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. dthornburg [at] aol [dot] com David has handouts not related to this session,…
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Updates on OLPC (June 2008)
The June 5, 2008, BusinessWeek article “One Laptop Meets Big Business: The big idea of giving PCs to poor children has been challenged by educators and business. Here, follow the misadventures of One Laptop per Child” includes a variety of updates about OLPC, which I regard as the most important educational technology initiative in the…
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Juarez violence trivialized by some media headlines
The headline of today’s AP article, “Violence no worse than usual in Ciudad Juarez” trivializes a ridiculous and unacceptably violent situation in the border town across from El Paso, Texas. The second paragraph in the article reads: But violence did not appear to be worse than usual in Ciudad Juarez, home base of the powerful…
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A growing global audience
This evening I took some time to review the ClustrMaps for my blog over the course of the past month (April 2008.) ClustrMaps is a wonderful website which provides code people can insert onto their blog or other website to track (by IP address) the general locations of people who are accessing and viewing content…
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Kids making the case for classroom blogging
Thanks to Lee Anne of The Eighth Floor in Tulsa, Oklahoma for drawing my attention today to the marvelous TeacherTube video “6 & 7 Year Olds and BLOGS” (from Nelson Central School in New Zealand) via her post, “What About Blogs?” My favorite responses from the students to the question “Why do you like having…
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Tales from an adventurer living off the grid
A couple of years ago when our family spent time in and around Jemez Springs, New Mexico, I met several local residents who aspired to “live off the grid.” By “the grid,” they meant the electricity grid to which most of us in the “developed world” are connected every minute of our lives, and without…