Tag: technology

  • Heartland eLearning Conference: PI4BL Workshop

    This morning I’m sharing a 3 hour pre-conference workshop at the Heartland eLearning Conference at UCO in Edmond, Oklahoma, on Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning. This workshop is customized for eLearning specialists and online instructors. To preserve past versions of this workshop, Karen Montgomery and I are archiving those versions as separate, saved pages on…

  • Learning from Angela, Kern and Konrad

    These are my notes from several K12Online09 presentation videos I watched this evening riding the Heartland Flyer Amtrak train from Fort Worth, Texas, back to Oklahoma City on my iPhone. This post was blogged on my netbook running Win7 using free Windows Live Writer software, downloadable from Microsoft as part of Windows Live Essentials. A…

  • K12Online09 on The Heartland Flyer

    It is January 1, 2010, and I am riding on the Heartland Flyer Amtrak train from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth, Texas. I have been watching presentations from the 2009 K-12 Online Conference on my iPhone. Thanks to the available podcast channels in iTunes and the presentation transcoding functionality provided by the conference Blip.tv account,…

  • Join the K12Online08 flashback and K12Online09 preview – LIVE this Saturday on EdTechTalk!

    Planning for the 2009 K-12 Online Conference has continued steadily throughout this summer and early fall. I’m pleased join others in announcing, thanks to the hard work of the K12Online09 Live Events Committee, the first official LIVE event of the 2009 conference! More details are available on the K12Online09 LAN Party Wiki. Here’s a repost…

  • Technology Professional Development and Chocolate Cake

    [NOTE: Though I had hair his hair color when I was a kid, I am not Wes Fryer.  I’m just a guy who Wes bribed into guest blogging.  Actually, I’m Jon Becker and I usually blog over at Educational Insanity. If you subscribe to Wes’ blog and/or you like Wes’ writing, you’ll like mine better;-)]…

  • Blogging TCEA 2006: Create, Share & Access

    In the fall of 2005, I was surprised when leaders of the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) decided not to publish one of the articles I’d submitted for their quarterly magazine, The TechEdge. I’d faithfully contributed to and published in the TechEdge since 1996-97, and this was the first time I’d ever been told, “No.…

  • Whitelist for next week’s OKCPS Tech Day Presentations

    I’m presenting three times next week at Oklahoma City Public Schools’ annual “Tech Day” conference. This is the list of websites I’ve requested be “whitelisted” on the district content filter (at least for the day) so I can share them during my sessions. My sessions (on Wednesday, June 3rd) include “Digital Storytelling on a Shoestring,”…

  • Podcast312: Reinventing Education for the 21st Century (Designing School 2.0)

    This podcast is a recording of my opening keynote session at the 2009 eTechOhio conference, held in Columbus, Ohio, on February 2, 2009. This is the audio-only mp3 version, a video podcast version is available on the eTechOhio09 portal in iTunesU Ohio. Check the podcast shownotes for a direct link to iTunes. The official conference…

  • EdTechTalk: Join our conversation about Netflix-style social networking about books for KIDS!

    You’re invited to join in the conversation this evening at 9 pm US Eastern time (8 pm Central) on the Teachers Teaching Teachers channel of EdTechTalk, discussing (among other things I’m sure) the ideas raised in last Saturday’s ITM blog post, “A Quest for NetFlix Plus Functionality for Books – for Young Readers!” as well…