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OKC WordPress Group 25 Jan 2010
These are my notes from our Oklahoma City WordPress User’s Group tonight. The new OC network intrusion detection system prevented everyone at the meeting except one person from accessing the Internet as a guest-user. Ugh! Very painful. We survived not having Internet access, however, thanks to prepared slides and pre-loaded browser tabs by presenters. MY…
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Things I Want To Model As Your Teacher
On the first day of class this semester in “Technology 4 Teachers” at the University of Central Oklahoma, I shared the following fifteen minute / nineteen slide presentation with my students on the topic, “Things I Want To Model As Your Teacher.” I’ve shared this as a synchronized Slidecast on SlideShare. Things I Want To…
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Netbooks or eBook Readers for Students?
I posted the following as a reply to Ken Royal’s post, “Digital Readers Make Education Sense” today: Ken: Why would you advocate that teachers get simple eReaders for students, when full-fledged Netbooks can be obtained which are less expensive and do so much more? The Ubuntu software installation image by Open 1:1 has over 100…
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Accessing Citrix from Ubuntu
I’m in Allen, Texas, today, and helped my brother in law install Ubuntu on a very old Windows system he has, to extend its useful life. We needed to see if it is possible to login to the Citrix system used by the Allen school district, however, and it turns out this IS possible. We…
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Download Fan Fiction Books and Read Offline on an iPhone / iPod Touch with Stanza
My 12 year old son recently discovered the website FanFiction.net, and today we had a discussion about eBooks which got me thinking about the possibility of creating eBooks from online FanFiction books. It turns out this is possible and free to do, using the programs Fanfiction Downloader and Stanza. Stanza is distributed as a cross-platform…
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Leadership in the Digital Age – Apple 1:1 Informational Event #ok1to1
These are my notes from the Apple 1:1 Informational Event at MetroTech in Oklahoma City on December 1, 2009. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. This is an all-day event, sponsored by Apple Computer, but I am just able to stay for the morning. Today follows the Oklahoma State Department of Education’s Pre-bidder’s…
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Saving Money on Your One-to-One Program by Alex Inman
These are my notes from Alex Inman’s presentation, “Saving Money on Your One-to-One Program,” at the One to One Institute‘s conference on November 9, 2009 conference in Chicago, Illinois. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I am recording this session and hope to share it as a podcast later. Alex in 6th year of 1:1…
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Learning about Netbooks in 1 to 1 Learning Projects from Maine Educators
Sharon Betts, Nick Azzaretti, Scott Bourgoin, Colleen Akerman, Cheryl Oakes, and David Trask published an excellent article in the September 2009 issue of ACTEM’s “Electronic Educator” newsletter titled, “Netbooks: Another Solution for Maine Students.” I recommend you read the full article, but here is an excerpt that may give you some clues about why I…
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Dell Mini10V Netbook, Ubuntu, Win7, and Hackintoshes
I spent more hours than I care to admit this past weekend working with and on my Dell Mini10V netbook, which I purchased back in August. I ordered it with Dell’s version of Ubuntu Linux pre-installed, but hadn’t tried installing other versions of Linux or other operating systems until this past Friday. Overall, this entire…
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Questioning the potential value of Skype and videoconferencing in the classroom?
Are folks in your IT department, your school administrative leaders, school board members, or others questioning the educational value of Skype and other videoconferencing solutions in the classroom? If so, I commend the following resources. Neil Stephenson‘s post on ISTEconnects this past spring, “The Many Roles of Skype in the Classroom,” provides outstanding examples of…