Category: history
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Teaching History with 21st Century Technology by Eric Langhorst
My notes from Eric Langhorst’s METC 2007 presentation, “Teaching History with 21st Century Technology.” Eric is the author and producer of the fantastic Speaking of History podcast. The handout for his session (PDF) as well as his session PowerPoint are available from his blog/podcast website. I’m recording this session to post later as a podcast.…
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Ongoing Knights Templar discussion
Blogs are amazing tools for ongoing discussions. If you don’t follow my comments feed you may not realize this, but there have been continuing comments on a post I made over a year ago titled “Knights Templar.” I personally find that era of history fascinating, and it is so cool to see discussions continuing about…
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SL as the wild west?
I had an interesting conversation with someone at METC today regarding Second Life. She observed that SL right now is a lot like the wild west. If you do a search for casino, brothel, or similarly themed synonyms in SL you get a LOT of results. That seems to parallel what we read happened in…
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From telegraph to email: Insights into the mind of President Lincoln
In the grand scheme of things, the telegraph was invented yesterday. On this Presidents’ holiday in the United States, I found the Washington Post article from last week, “Lincoln Online: The Telegraph as a Window Into the Mind of the 16th President” to be both insightful about President Lincoln as well as thought provoking when…
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Oil, Corruption, Development, Violence and Hope
I have just finished reading an eye-opening and extremely depressing article in National Geographic’s February 2007 issue, “Curse of the Black Gold: Hope and Betrayal in the Niger Delta.” Generally I don’t have a problem choosing some words to start with when composing a blog post, but I am actually not sure where to begin…
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Podcast115: The Accessible Mac: Yesterday and Today
This podcast is a recording of Alan Brightman’s presentation at the K-12 Educators Market Symposium at MacWorld 2007 on January 10, 2007. The title of his presentation was The Accessible Mac: Yesterday and Today. Alan is the Senior Policy Director for Special Communities at Yahoo! where he is responsible for ensuring that Yahoo! is as…
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Podcast112: Collaborative Digital Storytelling with Memory Miner
Memory Miner is a collaborative digital storytelling application which permits users to add a wealth of meta data to photographs as well as rich media including audio and video files. The program exports a slick looking website including all included metadata and attached media files, and permits one click searching of the image archive with…
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Reflections on radio history and podcasting
I published some thoughts I’ve been ruminating on for several weeks now over at TechLearning, in a new post I titled “What are you going to do?” This relates to several different ideas, including: The centennial of the first radio broadcast (Christmas Eve, 1906) Podcasting/narrowcasting as a renaissance of radio The novelty and power of…
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Aloha from Hawa’ii
Well, yesterday was a bit of an adventure, but I ended up successfully flying standby from Oklahoma to Honolulu (after missing my initial flight) for the 2006 Hawaii Library Association’s conference. I got to the hotel in Honolulu last night at 2 am US Central time, so it was quite a long travel day, but…
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The causes of freedom and social justice
I have just finished watching DVD #4 in the fantastic PBS series “Slavery and the Making of America” titled “Challenge of Freedom.” If we think we have things bad today in politics, we should all do a history lesson and study the period of Reconstruction following the US Civil War. As one of the commentators…