Category: history
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New Oklahoma Digital Stories: Integration, Boy Scouting, Italian Food Festivals and Planting Trees
This week another fantastic group of Oklahoma educators completed our 2.5 day Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital storytelling workshop, this time at Lowrey School about 30 minutes north of Tahlequah. Lowrey is one of the most innovative public schools in our state, with a 1:1 laptop program for students in grades 3-8. We have over 530…
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Iowa 1:1 Institute Presentation Resources
These are the presentation resources for the two sessions our Storychasers board members / representatives will be sharing on April 7, 2010, in Des Moines, Iowa, at the CASTLE Iowa 1:1 Institute. Note both sessions are shared as Google Presentations with embedded hyperlinks. OER: Open Educational Resources Storychasing Literacy Technorati Tags: education, i11i, iowa, laptop,…
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Announcing Celebrate Kansas Voices! #mace2010
On behalf of our non-profit Story Chasers Inc. I’m pleased to announce the start of the Celebrate Kansas Voices project. (CKV) Celebrate Kansas Voices is a statewide digital storytelling project empowering learners to become digital witnesses, archiving local oral history and sharing that history safely on the global stage of the Internet. Our project is…
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers (a book club discussion)
These are my notes from a book club meeting in Manhattan, Kansas, which focused on “The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers” by Brion McClanahan. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS HERE ARE IN ALL CAPS. Brion observes the textbooks now give topics greater or lesser amounts of importance by the people who write the textbooks.…
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Kansas Memory: Real Stories, Real People #mace2010
These are my notes from Michael Church’s presentation on “Kansas Memory: Real Stories, Real People” at the 2010 MACE (Mid-America Association for Computers in Education) Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. MY THOUGHTS AND FEEDBACK ARE IN ALL CAPS. I am audio recording this with permission from Michael and may later post this as an audio podcast.…
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Photo memories in an old box
This weekend my mom shared a box of old family photos with me, which were collected over the years by our dear friends, Fred and Alice McPherson. Lots of great memories here. Super photos to reflect and reminisce on both in person and via VoiceThread! Stay tuned! Digital technologies make our modern era, in some…
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Bribery apparently not a “new argument” for the Oklahoma Supreme Court
Today’s AP article, “Oklahoma Supreme Court rejects request to reopen rate case,” raises some interesting issues about AT&T. If a past state supreme court case was decided by a 2-1 vote, and one of the justices voting with the majority to close the case was later sentenced to prison for taking a bribe related to…
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Storychasing the 2010 Trappers Rendezvous
This weekend my son and I had a great time (despite the cold) at the 33rd annual Trappers Rendezvous near Newton, Kansas. I am going to edit together a video of the weekend, but today published most of the unedited photos and videos I took with my iPhone and Sony GSC Netsharing camera. Four of…
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Oklahoma City NAACP Freedom Center Needs Funds to Remain Open
I read Stacy Martin’s article last Wednesday in the City Sentinel newspaper of Oklahoma City, “Historic NAACP Center in danger of closing,” with great dismay. According to the article: The timing of the Jan. 18th 2010 tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. couldn’t arrive at a more ironic time for Oklahoma’s NAACP office, 2609 N.…
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Learning about Xinjiang, Urumqui, and China’s Uygur People
Matthew Teague’s December 2009 National Geographic article, “The Other Tibet,” should be considered must-reading for anyone interested in understanding modern China. In my November 5, 2009 podcast, “Reflections on Social Media, School Change, 21st Century Learning Skills, and China” I addressed some of the recent challenges the Chinese government has faced in maintaining tight control…