Category: workshops
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Conference blogging and next year’s personal / professional development
As you look forward to 2008, consider the role conference blog posts and conference blogging can play in your own personal / professional development and in the PD of other educators within your personal learning community. There are at least five different ways you can utilize and promote the effective utilization of conference blog posts…
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K12Online07 recommendations for Bud’s Peer Teacher
Bud the Teacher has asked for recommendations of K12Online07 presentations for a social studies teacher at his school. His blog rejected my comment (probably because I included so many links) so I’m posting it here and then reference linking this post as a comment on his blog. Bud: Several of my top recommendations for the…
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Podcast208: Blending Learning with Powerful Ingredients
This podcast is a keynote address I shared on December 12, 2007, with teachers at the Good Shephard Episcopal School in Dallas, Texas, over skype as a videoconference to kick off a day of professional development focused on distance learning. We discussed the ways audio recording and podcasting technologies can be viewed as disruptive and…
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Olympus WS-110 voice recorder rocks!
I am spending time this week collaboratively creating new educator workshop curriculum for the Celebrate Oklahoma Voices project. As our centennial year draws to a close, we are transitioning the project from the “Oklahoma Digital Centennial Project” to “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices.” As I noted over Thanksgiving, statehood for Oklahoma was not a reason for all…
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Podcast207: An Inspirational Message from Songwriter, Musician and Educator Monte Selby
This podcast features a recording of songwriter and educator Monte Selby’s keynote at the Oklahoma Alternative Education Student Conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on November 7, 2007. Monte is an amazingly talented guitarist, songwriter, and singer. As a former teacher, middle school principal, and college professor, Monte shares unique perspectives on creativity, artistic expression, learning, and…
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Stager and Richardson Keynote
Thanks to Brian Smith’s Flickr photos (and links he provided in the photo descriptions) I found the link today to the Ustream video of Will Richardson and Gary Stager’s closing keynote yesterday at the New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education conference. Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach gave me a heads-up earlier this week over…
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Podcast205: Innovation, Integration and the K-20 Center: Why Educational Leadership Needs Technology (Quyen Arana)
This podcast features a recording of the luncheon presentation by Quyen Arana at the Oklahoma Distance Learning Association’s Conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on November 6, 2007. The title of Quyen’s presentation was, Innovation, Integration and the K-20 Center: Why Educational Leadership Needs Technology. The program description of his presentation was: The K20 Center at the…
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Connection info for Friday’s Web 2.0 Webinar
If you’ve had any trouble registering for Friday’s free webinar I’m co-presenting with Vicki Allen (which I mentioned in last night’s post “Join us Friday for a webinar on Web 2.0”) you can use the following information and links to join us directly: Nov 14th Webinar info Participant Information When: Friday, November 16, 2007 1:00…
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Digital audio alternatives by Will Birchett
These are my notes from a presentation by Will Birchett of the University of Oklahoma on “Digital audio alternatives” at the ODLA 2007 conference. What is digital audio – bits and bytes – not analog – when an analog audio signal is converted into electrical on/off pulses everything in analog audio is voltages – digital…
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How Can I Create a Podcast? Let Me Count the Ways! (notes from Lance Ford’s preso)
These are my notes from Lance Ford’s ODLA 2007 presentation, “How Can I Create a Podcast? Let Me Count the Ways!” Part of this session is archived and recorded on the Howe Public Schools’ Tandberg Content Server. (Lance created this podcast DURING our workshop today, because he is using the latest version of the Tandberg…