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  • Paper Slide Video: Your Next (or First) BYOD Technology Integration Project

    Paper-Slide Videos are one practical type of technology integration project which can work well in a BYOD setting, and in this post I’d like to share some lessons learned from last week when I helped one of the 7th grade geography teachers in our district facilitate a three day paper-slide video project which ultimately culminated…

  • Interactively Explore Population Pyramids

    Today was the second day of a three-day “Paper Slide Video” project I’m helping a 7th grade geography teacher facilitate. This morning during first period class we recorded a sample paper-slide video (following the rubric we created together) on China’s One Child Policy. For the slides I drew, I utilized the wonderful website populationpyramid.net. It…

  • AudioBoo Websites and Ports to Unblock on Your School Internet Content Filter

    AudioBoo is a fantastic, free website and mobile app for students to use to create “narrated art” as well as other kinds of short audio recordings about their curricular assignments. If you want to use AudioBoo on a school network, however, you need to be sure the following websites and “ports” are UNBLOCKED on your…

  • Encouraging Creativity in Education through Community & Technology

    These are my notes from the breakout session, “Encouraging Creativity in Education through Community and Technology” at the 2012 State of Creativity Forum in Oklahoma City on November 13, 2012. Presenters are Ken Parker, Erik Guzik and Helen Soule. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Follow conference conversations today on Twitter with the…

  • Security Tips for WordPress: Understanding Network Attacks

    These are my notes from the April 20, 2012, Oklahoma City WordPress User’s Group meeting which focused on “Security Tips for WordPress.” The security portion of our meet up tonight was shared by Chris Dodds, whose website is FocusFire. (@focusfirebiz on Twitter) MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. We met at The Div…

  • Academic Integrity on a Digital Campus by Berlin Fang

    These are my notes from Berlin Fang‘s breakout session, “Academic Integrity on a Digital Campus,” on March 6, 2012, at the Heartland eLearning Conference at the University of Central Oklahoma. Berlin’s blogs on “ni.oc.edu/author/berlinfang.” MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The official conference description of Berlin’s presentation was: In this presentation, we will…

  • The Emerging & the Extreme by Lee Crockett

    These are my notes from Lee Crockett‘s keynote, “The Emerging & the Extreme,” on March 6, 2012, at the Heartland eLearning Conference at the University of Central Oklahoma. Lee’s website is “21st Century Fluency Project.” MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The official conference description of Lee’s keynote was: The world is no…

  • Moveable Feast Offers Tools for Multimedia, Mobile Walking Tours

    (cross-posted to Storychasers.org) The free iOS app Moveable and its complementary web tool by Moveable Feast (currently invite-only) allow anyone to create and share “multimedia narratives.” These can be walking tours of a historic area in your community, for example, including text, images, and videos all connected to GPS coordinates and a “virtual trail” people…

  • Pennsylvania Newspaper Article / School Tech Director Misrepresents CIPA

    (cross-posted from balancedfiltering.org) Update 11/16: Note the original title of this article has been changed, my intent in writing this is not to personally attack the reporter who wrote the article, but rather call attention to these issues which desperately need clarifying in our communities. Update 11/17: After reaching out to the newspaper reporter via…

  • Great Ideas from the Fall 2011 DEN Virtual Conference (part 2)

    This is my part 2 of my notes from the Discovery Educators Network Fall Virtual Conference (“Tech or Treat”) on October 22, 2011. If you haven’t already, check out part 1. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. (I cooked brunch and ate with my family during Joe Brennan‘s session, “Digital Storytelling: Get it…