DARPA ran a Red Balloon challenge last week to explore “the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urgent mobilization required to solve broad-scope, time-critical problems”. DARPA positioned 10 red weather balloons in different locations around the US. The first group that [...]
I have been invited to speak to the Board of Directors of the National Education Association (NEA), our nation's largest teacher union, about disruptive innovation. I'm scheduled for the morning of Saturday, December 12. I only have 20 minutes, plus another 10 minutes for questions and discussion. If' [...]
I’ve been nominated for a few Edublog Awards this year, including Best Individual Blog, Lifetime Achievement, and Best Leadership Blog (a nonexistent category!). I’m flattered that some folks think I’m worthy of nomination and am appreciative of their support of my writing.
I should be WAY [...]
Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. Chris Lehmann holds his lead over Jeff Piontek. Gary Stager continues to make his move.
I’ll try to post an update every day or two between now and December 15. Have you voted yet?
FYI, if [...]
Today I have Valery Bowen guest blogging. Please be sure to check out her unique guest post. Transition – 1. Passage from one form, state, style, or place to another.
I struggled to find the right word to decribe what I’m trying to sort through in my mind at the moment. I wanted a word to describe the middle ground between say a traditional paper based, non-digital [...]
This morning I participated in a wonderful outreach activity with members of our church at the City Rescue Mission in Oklahoma City, and I recorded the children’s program portion of the event using the free Ustream for iPhone Recorder application. These are a few of my [...]
Today because of privacy and confidentiality concerns at an event, I needed to share videos I recorded there with my iPhone on a password protected website. This is how I did it using iLife ‘09 and Mobile Me.
I recorded video of a children’s performance at a [...]
Take the opportunity to try out all the courses in iLearnsmart free throughout the month of December as a New Year Festival Offer.
Ilearnsmart currently offers academic courses in Biology, Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics for K-12 students along with the courses on Management Skills [...]
Here are four tales out of school, as relayed by parents:
Hatshepsut and Thutmose
Four questions from a study packet for a middle school World Civilizations class:
A. Nubia developed trade routes over land because:
there was not enough wood to build boats the Egyptians controlled the Nile the cataracts prevented river travel in Nubia Nubians only [...]
Take a closer look at this Guest Columnist Denise Herrenbruck.As more students turn to Oregon virtual charter schools, there's a brewing conflict between educators and parents in the K-12 community.Photo: Dreamstime
Those who are inexperienced with online learning often guess it means only one thing: [...]
Date: Thursday, Jan 14, 2010Time: 10:00 AM Pacific / 1:00 PM EasternThe advent of Web 2.0 has brought us a dazzling array of free, easy-to-use social networking technologies. These can help trainers stay connected with our learners, facilitate the growth of learning communities, and help [...]
For Moodle LMS users - PresenterCast announces 2.0 release of its eLearning application tool at www.presentercast.com.
Just look at this interesting line-up in this current issue Volume 4, No 4 - 2009 of the International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning.
This interdisciplinary journal aims to focus on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as [...]
Be sure to check out SCHOOL CIO: Strategies for K-12 Technology LeadersI’ve paid for all of the music on my laptop. And images (through istockphoto). I don’t use P2P services for sharing music or movies – as I type, I’m downloading Important Things with Demetri Martin off iTunes. I don’t mind paying for content if I find value in it. So [...]
This is great if you are a researcher and, I'd have thought, indispensable if you're a researcher in academia. Make sure your papers are included in this prediction engine of research papers, helping users find academic friends-of-a-friend and papers they might otherwise have missed. [...]
Fifty-three thousand 18th-century letters. Twenty-three thousand hours of digitized world music. The records of more than 197,000 individual trials held in Britain over 240 years. What can humanities scholars and social scientists do with such large tracts of raw material? This year the Digging Into Data Challenge invited research [...]
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We have been hearing about watching TV on our phones here in the USA for awhile, but many cell phone network towers (especially in rural areas) still can’t support the bandwidth this requires. Most cell phones today can’t stream live TV either. Today, I learned my iPhone can! Using the [...]
Monday, December 7, 2009 is a special day for several reasons. Two years ago, I had the privilege to witness memorial services for military veterans at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as part of our Oklahoma World War II Digital Learning Project. As always, I’ll be remembering our Pearl Harbor [...]
Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. Chris Lehmann holds his lead over Jeff Piontek. Gary Stager continues to climb the charts.
I’ll try to post an update every day or two between now and December 15. Have you voted yet?
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I had a short talk with my friend Paul Gilster last night while walking our dogs. As a reminder, Paul is the author of Centauri Dreams (book/blog). It’s a book, and subsequent blog, about visionary scientists who are plotting the method and means of achieving [...]
Tonight on TV3 television news they had a piece decrying children calling their teachers by their first name. You can view it yourself through this link here. The full text article can be found here.
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Rochville University, an online college lacking proper accreditation, awarded an MBA to a dog earlier this year. Yet Rochville diplomas continue to be touted by professionals on the resumes they post to the LinkedIn networking site, warns GetEducated.com.For years, colleges have awarded credit for out-of-classroom learning experiences like corporate training, independent study and volunteer activities. But many colleges can’t afford to train their faculty and staff to evaluate those experiences.
A new online service is intended to help translate outside learning into college credit, which should [...]
