Category: globalvoices
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NECC 2008 Button Contest: The Learning Revolution
Scott McLeod has announced an official contest to develop a logo for the phrase, “I’m here for the learning revolution.” Scott’s idea for these buttons in advance of NECC 2008 and this contest was a motivator for my post last week about wanting to write a book with this title. Scott’s center (CASTLE) is paying…
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Can we fathom the reality of the Katrina disaster?
This weekend our family rode the Heartland Flyer from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth, Texas, and fell in love with travel by train. I was not only reminded of the messages of Carl Honore in his book “In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed,” but I actually watched his TedTalk again during the…
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Podcast244: Stories of Life on the High Seas by Jonathan Gayton in Perth, Australia to Oklahoma Over Skype
This podcast is a recording of a wonderful videoconference conversation with Jonathan Gayton and Sue Waters from the Western Australia Maritime Training Centre in Perth, Australia, with our family in Edmond, Oklahoma. At the time of this videoconference, it was 8:30 pm on Thursday, April 10, 2008 in Oklahoma (US Central time.) It was 9:30…
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The power of digital storytelling to help students understand immigration, sacrifices and war
I was both impressed and thrilled by the quality of the digital stories created a couple weeks ago by the largest group of teachers we’ve had participate together to date in our statewide digital storytelling project, “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices.” My interest in and passion for digital storytelling has been fueled by multiple people and experiences,…
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10,000 miles apart and learning
Out of failure (or at least a little public embarrassment) comes opportunity. You are welcome to join Sue Waters, an Australian sea captain, my family and I in an interactive videoconference over Ustream.tv at 1:30 am GMT on Friday, April 11th. That will be Thursday evening, April 10th at 8:30 pm for us here in…
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Cell phones in Cuba today, political changes tomorrow?
CNN is reporting “ordinary Cubans” are going to be allowed to have cell phones, something not permitted when Fidel Castro was the leader of Cuba. Fidel’s brother, Raul, made this decision. I think it is likely to have major effects on the Cuban economy, political culture, and society in general. Limiting access to information and…
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Reflections on changing history, national identity, and cultural events in the American midwest
I did quite a bit of driving this past week, traveling to and from Tulsa, Oklahoma, on both Wednesday and Friday. It’s about two hours of driving one-way from where I live north of Oklahoma City, so that’s almost eight hours of driving in two days. One of my favorite things to do when commuting…
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Podcast231: Global Voices – Using Synchronous and Asynchronous VOIP Applications for Worldwide Classroom Collaborations
This podcast is a recording of my final presentation at the NCCE 2008 conference in Seattle, Washington, on February 29, 2008. We were fortunate to have Dr. Scott Mcleod join us over Skype for the first ten minutes of this session from Mubai, India! The program description of my session was: Amazing new voice technologies…
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The Corporation documentary: A big eye opener
These are my notes I took this evening watching “The Corporation Film.” For more background on the documentary, check out the English WikiPedia page for it. The article goes through the film segment by segment, in a much more thorough way than I have here with my own notes. I added this video to our…
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Podcast225: The K-12 Online Conference – Free, World-Class Professional Development for Educators about Web 2.0 Tools for Learning
This podcast is a recording of my spotlight presentation at the Oklahoma Technology Association’s annual conference on February 5, 2008, about the K-12 Online Conference. The program description for this session stated: The K-12 Online Conference offers a fantastic, free opportunity for educators around the world to learn together about innovative and effective ways web…