Category: workshops
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Podcast309: Google Apps – Implementation and Changing the Way We Do Business (from CoSN09)
This podcast is a recording of a session presented by Meghen Ehrich and Sharon Tompson, school technology support staff members from Prince George’s County Public Schools in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. This session was shared on March 10, 2009, at the CoSN 2009 conference in Austin, Texas. The official conference program description for this session was: …
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Plan to attend PodStock May 1-2, 2009 in Wichita, Kansas!
Check your calendar for Friday, May 1st and Saturday, May 2nd, 2009. If at all possible, please plan to join the learning and fun at the first PodStock conference to be held in Wichita, Kansas. According to the PodStock website: Podstock is a brand new conference designed to bring podcast creators and those who see…
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Live from the OK State Superintendent’s Dropout Summit
I’m attending the Oklahoma State Superintendent’s Dropout Summit this afternoon at Oklahoma Christian University. I’m experimenting with the Ustream Mobile broadcaster to provide a live video stream of the event, as well as CoverItLive. I’ve virtually “attended” events previously via CoverItLive but haven’t used it myself until today. Feel free to join in the chat…
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Feedback via Gabcast, VoiceThread and Qik from ITSC 2009
Yesterday and today I led half-day workshops on “Cell Phone Digital Storytelling” at the 2009 ITSC (Instructional Technologies Strategies Conference) in Portland, Oregon. We focused on using the websites GabCast and VoiceThread. This is the VoiceThread participants created, sharing their feedback about Sir Ken Robinson’s Sunday night keynote as well as their overall “takeaways” from…
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Opening Session: Oklahoma Technology Association Conference 2009
These are my notes from the Oklahoma Technology Association (OTA) 2009 Conference opening session on 10 Feb 2009. Will Richardson is our keynote speaker this morning. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Opening comments from Oklahoma State Superintendent Sandy Garrett Mid-1980s: I was the first director of rural education and technology – not…
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ISTEconnects: Cell Phone Audio Recordings and another NECC Travel $ Opportunity
I shared two new posts on ISTEconnects this weekend: Cell Phones as Audio Recorders Attend NECC for free on ISTE If you have any topics you’d like to see addressed on ISTEconnects, or if you’re interested in writing a blog post there, please let me know. Technorati Tags: necc, necc09#, necc09, iste
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eTechOhio, School Reform Ideas and Smaller PDF Files
I’ve been making a few last-minute tweaks for my keynote tomorrow at eTechOhio 2009, titled “Reinventing Education for the 21st Century (Designing School 2.0).” Today enroute to Columbus I read more of Clayton Christensen’s book “Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns” and watched (in the Chicago Midway airport) the…
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How should EduCon influence NECC?
Based on conversations during tonight’s “Teachers Teaching Teachers” webcast, I posted “EduCon 2.1 Lessons for NECC?” on ISTEconnects. Please share your thoughts! Technorati Tags: #necc09, necc, necc2009, educon, educon21, technology, education, conference
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Reflections on EduCon 2.1 via an EdTechTalk Webcast
These are my notes from “Teachers Teaching Teachers” on EdTechTalk Live this evening, discussing the recent EduCon 2.1 conference in Philadelphia. There were some problems with Skype and delays in the connection tonight, but I learned a great deal none-the-less from the participants. Thanks to Paul Allison for his tweet earlier in the night which…
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AMTRAK discount for NECC 2009
I just posted “TAKE A TRAIN TO NECC 2009!” on the ISTEconnects blog. Could this be our first opportunity to realize the dream of the Storychaser’s Peace Train? 🙂 Technorati Tags: necc09#, necc09, necc2009, iste, train, travel, storychaser, storychasers, peacetrain, peace