Category: history
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Realize your dreams today, start virtually attending Stanford or MIT
When I was growing up and especially when I was in high school considering college options, the thought of attending a top-tier school like Stanford, Harvard, or Princeton certainly crossed my mind. Although I had been encouraged by several to pursue an engineering college track (because of the flexible preparation it would provide in equipping…
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Podcast188: The Oklahoma Digital Centennial Project
This podcast is a recording of a presentation shared by Wesley Fryer on August 25, 2007, at the EncycloMedia 2007 conference hosted by the Oklahoma Department of Education. Listen deeply. Tell stories. Engage students. Celebrate Oklahoma’s legacy both past and present. Learn how you and your students can become oral history archivists on the global…
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Thoughts on video annotation and 1:1 computing
It just amazes me to be a witness to the emerging power of digital communication technologies in the early 21st century. Despite the frustrations many of us feel for the apparent lack of broad-based change in Schools in 2007, part of me remains VERY optimistic that we are going to see the sea change we’re…
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Tragedy on the Kingfisher bridge
Our family had a remarkable day of exploration and discovery today. Our travels and conversations certainly provided much food for thought for upcoming blog posts on several topics! For now, in addition to uploading about 150 pictures to Flickr from our day, I’ll tell a sad tale we learned when we were in Kingfisher. Kingfisher,…
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Reconsidering the Bering land bridge theory
We watched a superb NOVA special from February 2007 this evening (via Netflix) titled “America’s Stone Age Explorers.” The PBS website accompanying the special includes terrific resources for additional learning on the topics addressed in the program. Remember studying in school the Bering land bridge which scientists hypothesize became the transit highway for the first…
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Podcast156: An Interview with Wylie Post (the world record holding Oklahoma aviator)
This podcast features a recording with the historical character Wylie Post, who was the first person to fly solo around the world and still holds the world record for flying solo around the world the fastest in a single engine prop aircraft. I conducted this impromptu interview with an employee of the Oklahoma History Center,…
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Teacher in Space: August 2007!
In creating a list of links related to NASA, space exploration, and Mars today (for some teachers and students making videoconference connections next week with NASA’s Digital Learning Network) I discovered that NASA’s STS-118 mission is scheduled to launch in August 2007 with the first teacher in space: Barbara Morgan. Barbara Morgan was the backup…
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Eric Langhorst shares on TeacherTube
Eric Langhorst has posted a great video to TeacherTube explaining his book blog project on “Guerrilla Season.” We need more teachers modeling and sharing their best practices with teaching via TeacherTube like Eric has done! I think we’re only getting glimpses of the power of these digital teaching resources. Great work Eric and students in…
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Podcast134: Eric Langhorst on Teaching History with 21st Century Technology
This podcast is a recording of a presentation by 8th grade U.S. history teacher, Eric Langhorst, titled “Teaching History with 21st Century Technology.” This presentation was shared at the Midwest Education Technology Conference (METC) in St. Louis on February 27, 2007. The official METC conference program description of his session was: Learn how an 8th…