Category: workshops
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LoTi: Elevating Expectations, Performance and Accountability
These are my notes from Dean Mantz’s presentation “LoTi: Elevating Expectations, Performance and Accountability” at the TTT Conference in Wichita, Kansas, on 12 June 2008. From my work in Kentucky, rather than calling LoTi “levels of technology implementation” we started to call it “levels of technology innovation” LoTi goes back to 1994, developed by Dr.…
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Trends, Tools and Tactics for 21st Century Learning (keynote by Kevin Honeycutt)
These are my notes from the keynote address by Kevin Honeycutt, titled “Trends, Tools and Tactics for 21st Century Learning” on June 12, 2008, in Wichita, Kansas, at the summer educational technology conference sponsored by ESSDACK (Educational Services and Staff Development Association of Central Kansas.) MY OWN THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. KEVIN…
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Trends, Tools, and Tactics for 21st Century Learning
If you live anywhere near Wichita, Kansas, get yourself and your teacher peers to the “Trends, Tools, and Tactics for 21st Century Learning” conference in The Hotel at Old Town this Thursday and Friday, June 12-13, 2008. I just learned about this conference tonight thanks to my uncle, Ron Henley. Wichita is just under three…
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K12Online08 theme and keynote selection criteria
If you have not already, be sure to mark your fall (northern hemisphere) or spring (southern hemisphere) calendar for the 2008 K-12 Online Conference. The 2008 conference theme is “Amplifying Possibilities.” This year’s conference begins with a pre-conference keynote the week of October 13, 2008. The following two weeks, October 20-24 and October 27-31, forty…
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Podcast250: An Overview of Streaming Video Formats, Standards, Technologies, and Considerations from John Copeland of VBrick
This podcast is a recording of a presentation shared by John Copeland of VBrick at the Oklahoma Distance Learning Association (ODLA) spring conference on April 28, 2008, in Oklahoma City at MetroTech Springlake. John discussed the company VBrick as well as their products, but also provided an excellent overview of streaming video formats, standards, technologies,…
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Sierra Wireless saved my life tonight
I co-presented a 1.5 hour class this evening in Oklahoma City at a local church entitled “Tech Talk,” which addressed a wide variety of questions people had about digital photography, DVRs, iPods, Internet searching, and more. I had presented for this “Discoveries” class series previously, but addressed Internet Safety. During those sessions, I utilized the…
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Podcast239: 21st Century Learning: Embedding New Skills and Assessments by Dr. Richard Hersh (COSN 2008 Keynote)
This podcast features a recording of Dr. Richard Hersh’s comments on March 10, 2008, at the COSN Conference in Washington D.C. in the opening keynote panel discussion. Dr. Hersh currently serves as the Co-Director of the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) the College and Work Readiness Assessment (CWRA.) He is focused on encouraging educators (as well…
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Thanks to Marco Torres for the term “quick victories”
I’ve added a link to the top of my blog today to a webinar I’m sharing on May 7, 2008, for the CILC (Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration) entitled, “Quick Victories for Blended Learning.” I first heard the term “quick victories” from Marco Torres, during or after one of his presentations at the MACE…