Category: globalvoices
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Morning street scenes from Puxi, Shanghai
Shelly went out early this morning and captured about twenty images of street scenes in the neighborhood outside our hotel in Puxi, Shanghai. Today is the first cloudy, rainy day since we’ve been in China. I think Shelly has a good “photographer’s eye” for capturing interesting scenes. Some images from this series would make a…
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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…
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Creating globally connected, rigorous and highly motivated assignments by Alan November
These are my notes from session 3 at the Learning 2.0 conference in Shanghai with Alan November. I am recording this session with permission from Alan and will post it here later as a podcast. – you had to construct your own learning – you thought you knew how to do something, but via a…
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Software and hardware recommendations for an offline elementary school?
A friend and co-worker is about to travel to Costa Rica on special trip, inspired by a friendship his wife established with a peace corps volunteer working there. A rural elementary school they are going to visit has recently received several computers and electrical power. My friend and his wife are bringing an older computer…
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100 new Internet users per minute?!
The August 29, 2007, edition of the NPR Technology podcast included an episode on game addiction in China. Louisa Lim’s August 28th article “Gamers Find Gaps in China’s Anti-Addiction Efforts” was the same story, I think. One of the attention-grabbing statistics shared in the episode was that every minute, 100 new people in China are…
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Maintaining perspective and changing the world
If you are not a reader of Tom Hemingway’s “Tryangulation” blog, I’d recommend checking out his thoughts. Tom has lived in Turkey for the past eight years, but has had a rich array of experiences living in working in many different countries. One of the best things about the blogosphere is the way it can…
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Videoconferencing coming cell phones near you
AT&T’s Video Share technology is a harbinger of technologies rapidly coming to a cell phone near you. According to a June 19, 2007 press release: Ultimately, services such as Video Share will be accessible over any of the three primary screens that customers use most frequently — the wireless device, the PC and the television.…
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Podcast173: Voices of NECC 2007 Part 2 (Liberian Renaissance Education Complex, Creating iStories for Travel, and TeacherTube)
This podcast features recordings from attendees and participants at the National Education Computing Conference (NECC) 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia in June 2007. This podcast includes an interview with Dr. Dennis Harper, founder of Generation Y, about the Liberian Renaissance Education Project, Dr. Michael Searson discussing the use of digital tools to document and share international…
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Podcast170: Reinventing Project-Based Learning by Jane Krauss and Suzie Boss
This podcast is a recording of the NECC 2007 presentation “Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age” by Jane Krauss and Suzie Boss, along with several other educators who joined the session via Skype. As the authors of an upcoming book on project-based learning with the same title as…