As a blog reader, you’re most likely familiar with names like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Steve Ballmer. How about Jonney Shih? If you have no idea who Shih is, you’re probably not alone. Currently there is not an English WikiPedia article for him, despite the fact [...]
Two weeks ago in Oklahoma City at the “Oral History for the 21st Century” symposium, I mentioned in my presentation that the transcription power of Google Voice suggested that exciting new transcription possibilities are on the horizon for oral historians. On November 19th, Google announced new functionality [...]
I’ve been fascinated by the reactions of different people this fall (showing my North America bias here, clearly) when I’ve broached the subject of netbooks for K-12 students in 1:1 learning settings. I’ve met educators extremely enthusiastic about the power, flexibility, and durability of netbooks, and I’ve met vendors [...]
It’s rare I have praise for a Microsoft product, but tonight I have to share my successful experience using the default scanning functionality of Windows 7. The fact that I had to resort to using Windows7 on my Netbook is less a reflection on Apple as it [...]
Cross-posted to the Storychasers blog.
This week Oklahoma educators participated in our 29th “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” workshop since 2008, and created some fantastic digital stories about the history, geography, and people of our great state.
Did you know Oklahoma is home to a growing black bear population and just had [...]
This is an excellent thirteen minute video of ideas from Alan November about transforming our schools into the learning spaces we need in the 21st century.
Find more videos like this on NL Connect
Among many things, Alan says:
We need to redefine learners as contributors. This requires a [...]
On November 18, the K12Online Conference is hosting a LAN party from 6:30PM to 8:30PM EST. We invite everyone to gather at the LAN party [...]
Greg Thompson in his post, “The Landscape of Educational Culture” has it right. We must re-imagine our schools and end the madness of high stakes testing as well as “standards-based” educational reform. He writes:
We can’t have both. We can’t create a thriving, innovative, creative, vibrant learning environment and pair [...]
Last week Tom Krazit reported for CNET that Google has confirmed its purchase of Gizmo5. This was confirmed on the official Google Voice blog the same day. The old Gizmo Project website (www.gizmoproject.com) now directs to Google (www.google.com/gizmo5) and new memberships have been temporarily suspended. According [...]
The Oklahoma State Department of Education announced last week via a letter to superintendents in our state a “1:1 Digital Classroom Project Applicant’s Leadership Conference” scheduled for Monday, November 30, 2009. The conference will be held at Metro Technology Center in Oklahoma City, and registration is open [...]
I learned this morning video content from the September 30th symposium at UCO in Edmond, Oklahoma, “A New Renaissance: A Revolution of Creativity and Learning” is available for download via iTunes. Here is a direct link to the event’s iTunesU site, which is part of UCO’s iTunes [...]
I received the following comment today on my August 21, 2009 post, “Questioning the potential value of Skype and videoconferencing in the classroom?” from Ricky. He began his comment by quoting a sentence of my post with which he took issue, and then shared his views:
“we need to make [...]
Our 15 year old babysitter recently showed my kids the YouTube video, Potter Puppet Pals in “The Mysterious Ticking Noise.”
This 2 minute and 6 second video has had over 71 million views to date. If your students have access at home to YouTube, chances are good many of them [...]
It’s unfortunate but true that in many US schools as well as some countries (like China) “web shortener” URLs like tinyurl.com, bit.ly, ow.ly, etc are BLOCKED. If you’re in this boat, give Untiny a try. If this site is unblocked, you can enter the shortened [...]
This functionality has been available on Google Documents for awhile, but this evening I finally took some time to try it for myself. Like commercial survey services like SurveyMonkey, Google Forms (a feature of Google Spreadsheets on Google Docs) now supports branching, or conditional survey questions!
Check out this past Thursday’s Seedlings webcast (available as an audio podcast) when Maria Knee discussed the upcoming 2009 K-12 Online Conference! They also discussed what Maria’s been doing the past 6 months, H1N1, and Monarchs in Space!
Cross-posted to the K-12 Online Conference Blog.
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Today at the TIC TAC Conference in Tonganoxie, Kansas, I shared a breakout session titled, “Crafting Your Digital Footprint.”
My 9 year old, Sarah, led this session several weeks ago in Maine at the ACTEM09 Conference. Thanks to [...]
These are my notes from the panel presentation, “Unlocking the Past: Techniques for Conducting Meaningful Interviews” at the “Oral History for the 21st Century” Symposium in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This conference is sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Oklahoma History Center, Oklahoma Historical Records Advisory Board, Oklahoma Humanities [...]
These are my notes from Donald Ritchie’s presentation, “Fast Forward: Oral History in the 21st Century” on November 12, 2009, at the “Oral History for the 21st Century” Symposium in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This conference is sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Oklahoma History Center, Oklahoma Historical Records [...]
Yesterday was Veteran’s Day here in the United States, and three students of Pam Henley in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, contributed videos to our statewide “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” project which pay tribute to our Oklahoma veterans.
“In Honor of My Grandfather” was created by Laney Miller, as a [...]
Today I had an opportunity to co-present with my 6 year old daughter, Rachel, at the Norman Public Library for approximately forty librarians working in the Pioneer Library System of Oklahoma. The topic of our two hour presentation was, “Digital Citizenship in Libraries: Constructively Leveraging the Power [...]
This 95 second YouTube video, “charlie brown teacher,” is a montage of school scenes from Peanuts cartoons. Among other things, it’s a reminder of how important it is for teachers to recognize students individually.
Our students deserve to be and should be recognized individually for their ideas, their contributions, their [...]
These are my notes from the presentation “Transforming Classroom Practice with 1:1″ by Jenny Wojick, Andy Marks, Janet Parkerson, Virginia Glass and Kelly Goldberg at the One to One Institute’s conference on November 10, 2009 conference in Chicago, Illinois. All are educators in Roundout School District #72, in [...]
These are my notes from Shawn Massey and Wynn Draper-Bryant’s presentation, “Classroom Basics for 1:1 Computing” at the One to One Institute’s conference on November 10, 2009 conference in Chicago, Illinois. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I am recording this session and hope to share it as a [...]
Gary Stager shared his presentation, “10 things you can do with a laptop” at the 2009 uLearn Conference in Christchurch, New Zealand, last month. Gary’s summary of this session is available on his website. This presentation is based on Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon’s 1971 paper, “[...]
If you’re not subscribed to the K-12 Online Conference blog, the K12Online Twitter feed, or Facebook page, you may not have noticed we’ve had five of our 2009 conference presenters share “teaser trailers” about their upcoming sessions! These are optional, short (30 – 60 second) advertisements [...]
These are my notes from Mark Clemente’s presentation, “NASA Resources for Millennial Learners” 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.
These are my notes from Leslie Wilson’s session, “Leadership: The Critical Factor” (for 1:1 success) 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 [...]
These are my notes from Illinois Senator Deanna Demuzio’s presentation, “Engaging all Stakeholders” 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.
History [...]
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 [...]
These are my notes from Katie Bader and Diane Bilcer’s presentation, “From One Computer Lab to 1:1 – Best Practices of Technology Integration” 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 [...]
These are the results from our PollEverywhere survey during today’s keynote address at the One to One Institute’s conference in Chicago today. These were the poll options for participants:
We have a 1:1 project in at least 1 grade, students take home laptops We have a 1:1 project in [...]The free, worldwide K-12 Online Conference is just around the corner, and this short teaser video from Maria Knee, one of our co-conveners, will whet your appetite about what is to come!
If you have not already, please join the K-12 Online Conference Ning, subscribe to the [...]
It’s coming and you won’t want to miss it! The 2010 PodStock conference will be held July 16-17, 2010, at the Old Town Hotel in Wichita, Kansas. The 2009 PodStock conference was a GREAT event, made superb by the contributions of lots of creative educators from around the midwest [...]
Last week for our last night in China, we rode the MagLev bullet train from the Pudong airport into downtown Shanghai. We could have taken a taxi ride for 45-60 minutes at a cost of about $50 US, but instead we paid the equivalant of about $7 US and [...]
Last week when I was in Hangzhou and Shanghai, China, for a higher education 21st century learning conference, I used my Boingo WiFi Hotspot login several times on the “partner login” page of ChinaMobile. I don’t have a Boingo subscription, in the past I’ve just opted for [...]
The days of photographic privacy are over. It is important for people of all ages, but especially teenagers who are most prone to rash behavior, to understand this and its implications. Chris Foresman’s November 2, 2009 article for ARS Technica, “Students suspended for racy slumber party pics, file lawsuit,” [...]
Amanda MacMillan’s article last month for CNN Health, “Internet addiction linked to ADHD, depression in teens” highlights a troubling study from Taiwan pointing to widespread Internet addiction problems faced by adults as well as youth. This paragraph really got my attention:
Our culture practically mandates time online, he (Dr. Dimitri [...]
Sylvia Martinez is spot on in her post today, “Students are not the enemy.” Shame on the vendor and vendor representative, Sophos and Chris Ridgway, for sharing an upcoming session at NYSCATE (The New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education) conference titled, “[...]
Wednesday night Shelly and I joined friends in Shanghai for a culminating dining experience at Din Tai Feng. If you ever have an opportunity to eat at one of their restaurants in China or elsewhere, don’t miss their soup dumplings. They are AMAZING!
This podcast is a reflection I recorded on a flight back to the United States from the October / November 2009 21st Century Learning Conference in Hongzhou, China. There are some issues about which I am reticent to blog, given their poliltical sensitivity in China, but want to share and [...]
Yesterday our international group (composed of educators from the UK, Australia, and the US) had the opportunity to visit both Hangzhou Normal University as well as Zhejiang University here in Hangzhou, China, just outside of Shanghai.
Thanks to our introduction by Marco Torres a couple of weeks ago in Maine for ACTEM09, I’m in love with the iPhone application Pano. For more about why I love this program and some other examples, see my October posts, “Easy iPhone Panoramic photos with Pano” [...]
These are my notes from the closing panel, “Professional Association and Publication Potentials for ICT and 21st Century Learning in the Asia / Pacific Region,” at the 21st Century Learning @ the West Lake Expo held Oct 31 – Nov 3, 2009 at Xi Hu, China, also known as [...]
These are my notes from Joe Lambert’s presentation, “The Place of Story,” at the 21st Century Learning @ the West Lake Expo held Oct 31 – Nov 3, 2009 at Xi Hu, China, also known as West Lake. West Lake is in the center of Hangzhou, China, which [...]
It’s a great pleasure and honor to be in China again, this time for the 21st Century Learning @ the West Lake Expo held Oct 31 – Nov 3, 2009 in Hangzhou, China. This is my 3rd visit to China– I was in Hong Kong this past September, [...]
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