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  • Build Your PLN

    by Miguel Guhlin (Find me on Plurk/Twitter at “mguhlin”) As a educator, probably one of the tougher challenges you face isn’t just keeping up with the technology, but rather understanding how to leverage it in your teaching and learning situation. While in the past, we were limited by the occasions that served as “learning experiences,” in…

  • Top Android Phone Apps

    Note: The following is a guest blog post by Miguel Guhlin, Around the Corner. Source: http://www.utahands.com/artists/miles/images/paintings_files/cheshire_cat.jpg “iPhone has tons of great apps,” argued a colleague at a conference. I stared at her hand, which held her iPhone up, waving it around to find nearby restaurants. For the life of me, I couldn’t think of an…

  • Jaycut, not YouTube, has the best online, free video editor today

    Google’s announcement last week of its beta YouTube video editor inspired me to take another look at how easy it can be to create a video ENTIRELY online, using a web browser instead of client-side software like iMovie or Windows Live MovieMaker. I last gave this a stab in July 2008 using the now defunct…

  • Mandatory Reading for School Reformers and Transformers: Alvin Toffler’s 2007 Interview in EduTopia

    James Daly’s 2007 interview with Alvin Toffler, “Reshaping Learning from the Ground Up,” should be considered mandatory reading for anyone seeking to reform and/or transform formal education in the 21st century. Toffler is clear on our need for charter schools. We MUST diversify our educational landscape. Charter schools offer one way forward when it comes…

  • Podcast346: Discussing Digital Literacy with Educators in the New Literacies Collaborative

    This podcast is a recording of a Ustream presentation by Wesley Fryer on 16 April 2010 to educators at North Carolina State in the New Literacies Collaborative. We used a Google Moderator Topic Series to solicit questions for this open forum. Tablet technologies, 1 to 1 laptop initiatives, digital literacy, and helping students improve their…

  • Alternatives to Ning if free Ning sites are all shut down?

    In yesterday’s TechCrunch article, “Ning’s Bubble Bursts: No More Free Networks, Cuts 40% Of Staff” Jason Kincaid shared an email from Jason Rosenthal, Ning’s new CEO. Rosenthal purportedly wrote: So, we are going to change our strategy to devote 100% of our resources to building the winning product [commercialized, paid Ning accounts] to capture this…

  • Install alternate operating systems and software on a netbook via a USB flash drive

    This is a guest blog post by Sherman Nicodemus. This is my fourth post in a series this week on “Moving at the Speed of Creativity.” If you have questions about this post I’ll be glad to answer them via comments here. If you purchase a netbook computer, don’t simply use the pre-installed operating system…

  • Ripping Personally Owned DVDs for iPhone or iPod Viewing: Legal and Technical Perspectives

    This is a guest blog post by Sherman Nicodemus. This is my second post in a series I’m sharing on “Moving at the Speed of Creativity” this week. If you have questions about this post I’ll be glad to answer them via comments here. The advent of digital encoding technologies has brought a revolution to…

  • “Nothing “Flat” World about this Jazz: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education by Curt Bonk #heartlandconf10

    These are my notes from Curtis Bonk’s opening keynote address, “Nothing ‘Flat’ World about this Jazz: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education” at the 2010 Heartland eLearning Conference hosted by the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The Heartland eLearning conference is on Twitter, has a conference…

  • Writing Essays and Creating New Games: Things We Should Do on Netbooks

    Walter Bender, former president of software and content for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation and founder of Sugar Labs, granted an interview in December 2009 to Wade Roush. Wade’s article is titled, “Sugar Gets Sweeter: Former OLPC Exec Walter Bender on Netbooks, E-books, Blueberry, and Cloudberry.” Bender gave the opening keynote address in…