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  • Educational Technology Podcasts from Kansas City: Storytelling and Visual Literacy Activity Ideas

    Yesterday I shared two breakout sessions in Kansas City, Kansas, at the district-wide “Inspiring Excellence Conference” to wrap up the year. I used a Sony ICD PX312 digital voice recorder (linked on the “Digital Backpack Contents” entry on the Storychasers FAQ page) to create “no-edit” recordings of these sessions, and last night published them to…

  • Configure KidBlog for Safe, Moderated, Interactive Student Blogging & Commenting

    (cross-posted from playingwithmedia.com) This semester I’m working on a contract basis (thanks to federal grant dollars) as an “innovative instructional coach” in Yukon Public Schools. This morning I helped one of our sixth grade teachers facilitate her first lessons using free, ad-free class blogs hosted by KidBlog.org. In this post, I’ll share some of the…

  • eBooks The New Normal: how libraries are leveraging the eBook opportunity

    Please mark your calendars now and register to attend the webinar, “EBOOKS The New Normal: how libraries are leveraging the eBook opportunity” scheduled for Wednesday, October 12, 2011 and presented by Library Journal/School Library Journal. Presentations will take place throughout the day online, from 10 am to 6 pm EDT. The official event description is:…

  • Lessons Learned & Advice for Printed Book Self-Publishers: Use @CreateSpace

    A printed, paperback version of my book, “Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing” is now available via CreateSpace for $19.99. I highly recommend the less expensive eBook versions of “Playing with Media,” but I know many people still prefer reading printed books. It’s also quite exciting, when you’re 7 years old and the…

  • Publishing eBooks to Amazon and iTunes iBookstore: Learning Curve Continues

    Yesterday was a day of great joy in the Fryer household: At long last, the eBook I’ve been rather obsessively writing for the past few months (“Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing“) was finally published in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany in the respective Kindle stores for each country. I…

  • Balancing Open and Closed Web Publishing

    As educators we should be advocates for “open web publishing.” Open web publishing is sharing content on the Internet’s World Wide Web which does NOT require a login or password to access. “Closed web publishing” is sharing digital content online which is password protected. There are good reasons to interactively share content on the closed…

  • Create a Moderated Classroom Phonecasting Channel with iPadio

    Any time teachers or librarians ask students to submit media files for web publication, it’s a good idea (conservatively speaking) to utilize tools which permit MODERATION of content. This means the educator gets to PREVIEW submitted content and approve it before it “goes live” online. VoiceThread is a great example of a web-based digital storytelling…

  • How to automatically publish blog posts to a Facebook page

    Twitterfeed is a free service which (among other things) lets users automatically publish blog posts to a Facebook page. As the name implies, Twitterfeed can also be used to automatically post content to Twitter. I’ve found its capabilities unique, however, since it allows publishing of a web feed to a Facebook PAGE instead of just…

  • iPad as an Interactive White Board for $5 or $10

    School leaders around the United States continue to spend HUGE amounts of money on interactive whiteboards for classrooms, despite the fact that these devices universally FAIL to empower students to become more independent, self-directed and engaged learners in the way mobile learning devices (like laptops, tablets or other personal digital learning tools) can. Please do…

  • Moderate comments on a Posterous Blog

    If you use a blog for any purpose, including a class blog students access, it’s VERY important to configure it with comment moderation enabled. One of the easiest (and free) ways to create a blog today and share rich media (images, audio and video) as well as text with hyperlinks is to use Posterous. When…