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| Moving at the Speed of Creativity Updated : Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:44:22 +0000 Phenomenal Math Curriculum Makeover Video by Dan Meyer Dan Meyer's twelve minute talk at TEDxNYED in March 2010 is one of the best videos I've seen not only discussing how multimedia can be used effectively by math teachers to bring "real world" problem solving into the classroom, but even more importantly how we as math teachers can fundamentally change our PEDAGOGY to encourage [...] Publ.Date : Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:33:16 +0000 Diigo now supports screenshots This weekend I was pleased to learn the social bookmarking web service Diigo now supports the capture of browser-based screenshots. Had I been able to attend ISTE 2010 this year in Denver, I might have learned this at the beginning of July when this new capability was announced during the conference. Diigo's screenshot capture options [...] Publ.Date : Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:11:13 +0000 Convergence Media Examples from Mike Koehler of Smirk New Media This afternoon I'm learning with educators participating in the week long "Oklahoma Multimedia Teachers" workshop on convergence journalism at OU's Gaylord College of Journalism. This is the third year of the workshop here in Oklahoma, which is part of the High School Broadcast Journalism (HSBJ) Project. Earlier in the week, Mike Koehler shared a host [...] Publ.Date : Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:44:19 +0000 Summertime and the Learning is Easy? I am so honored to be asked to guest blog for Wes. Thank you so much. I am Alice Barr, the Instructional Technology Integrator for Yarmouth High School in Yarmouth, Maine. We are a 1:1 laptop school and are going in to Year 8 of the project. I love what adding laptops to our school [...] Publ.Date : Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:36:27 +0000 Think Before You Tweet My name is Beth Still and my blog is Nebraska Change Agent. I was honored when Wes invited me to guest blog during his absence. I hope this post sparks a conversation that we need to have. I recently came across this video that was created by Steve Johnson which serves as a good reminder [...] Publ.Date : Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:00:42 +0000 VERY limited cell phone reception There is a lot to be said for disconnecting from technology. This week I am partially disconnecting at Camp Alexander about 50 miles west of Colorado Springs, Colorado. The photo below shows a rock outcrop in the middle which is the only location at camp which has cell phone coverage. I climbed up this evening [...] Publ.Date : Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:20:52 +0000 Podcast353: Free, Online K-12 Education Options for ALL Oklahoma Students via Epic One on One Charter School This podcast is an interview with David Chaney of Epic Charter Schools in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on June 25, 2010. In early-June 2010, Oklahoma governor Brad Henry signed Senate Bill 2319 into law which radically changes the groundrules for online, virtual learning in Oklahoma. In this podcast, David discusses the model of virtual learning which [...] Publ.Date : Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:31:52 +0000 Publishing video to YouTube and Celebrate Kansas Voices Cross-posted to the Storychasers blog. In preparation for next week's inaugural "Celebrate Kansas Voices" (CKV) oral history and digital storytelling workshop, we've created a new two-page guide explaining how to publish videos to YouTube and embed videos in our CKV learning community / Ning site. This is included in our 24 page participant handout. (PDF) [...] Publ.Date : Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:52:10 +0000 We need a Government 2.0 Election App for Voters Campaigning for November elections here in Oklahoma is in full swing, but to date I feel largely uninformed. I want a mobile application or iOS app which lets me identify where I vote, and then provides me with information about all the candidates for whom I can vote in November. The app should also include [...] Publ.Date : Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:27:21 +0000 River Rafting in Colorado with Buffalo Joe’s on the Arkansas River Yesterday, as the culminating event of our week in Colorado for Boy Scout camp, our troop went river rafting near Buena Vista, Colorado, with Buffalo Joe's. My son, Alexander, is sitting to my left in the second row of our raft. It doesn't look like we were enjoying this at all, does it?! What a [...] Publ.Date : Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:04:06 +0000 Screentime stats for youth and the Open Learning Exchange via @fastcompany From the April 2010 article, "A Is for App: How Smartphones, Handheld Computers Sparked an Educational Revolution:" "Gemma and Eliana belong to a generation that has never known a world without ubiquitous handheld and networked technology. American children now spend 7.5 hours a day absorbing and creating media -- as much time as they spend [...] Publ.Date : Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:00:18 +0000 Wanna Hitch? Tether Your Android or Blackberry Phone Image Source: http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/4/2009/03/tether-3g.jpg Note: The following is a guest blog post from Miguel Guhlin, who blogs regularly at Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org. Tethering...a term unknown to me. I know what it means to "tether" something but what did it mean in terms of my mobile device? Apparently, it can be defined in this way: Using an application [...] Publ.Date : Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:00:00 +0000 Digital boundaries are few and far between in Technopoly This morning on The Today Show, hosts interviewed a San Diego family which was challenged to give up cell phones, computers and TV for an entire day. In addition, Tony Schwartz (author of "The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance" addressed the need we have to take proactive [...] Publ.Date : Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:42:11 +0000 Great case for Educators building PLNs for PD The following blog comment from Dan Lourcey makes a strong case for why ALL educators today need to build personal learning communities [PLNs] as 21st century learners. Posted on http://esheninger.blogspot.com/2010/07/good-vs-great-teachers-my-ravitch.html H/T Miguel Guhlin Here's the text version, shared by Dan Lourcey, in case the image version above is not readable in your location or on [...] Publ.Date : Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:26:31 +0000 Is your state department of education providing full text RSS / web feeds yet? I'm doing a bit of homework in advance of some professional development sessions I'll be sharing next month down south in Texas, and noticed today the Texas Education Agency (TEA) is providing several different web feeds of content on their main site. This is a GOOD step in the right direction, and hopefully we'll see [...] Publ.Date : Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:07:29 +0000 Podcast354: Behind the Curtain of the NORAD Tracks Santa Program This podcast is a fortuitous interview recording with Stacia Reddish, who was the US Air Force Public Affairs officer in charge of the "NORAD Tracks Santa" program for five years. Stacia was responsible for getting Google involved with NORAD Tracks Santa and taking the program (which dates from the 1950s) to the next level with [...] Publ.Date : Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:20:25 +0000 Passion-based learning in action: Brian Crosby at TEDxDenverEd Do you consider yourself a passionate person? What are the things about which you are passionate? Are you passionate about kids and helping kids learn? Are you passionate about opening up new vistas of experiences and understanding for others which - absent your intervention - they might never experience? Are you passionate about creating moments [...] Publ.Date : Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:35:07 +0000 How important are these digital skills for you as an educator? (poll) I attended a meeting today which raised my blood pressure a bit. I'll elaborate later, but for now I'll invite you to take thirty seconds and answer the following five question poll. I've created this with Google Docs, and am embedding it below. Loading... Thanks for your participation! After submitting your answers, you'll be able [...] Publ.Date : Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:26:02 +0000 Over the Pond and Through The Fiber #aha-moment BACKGROUND OF MY A-HA MOMENT WITH EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY In the spring of 2006, I had a trans-oceanic, international conversation with other educators which fundamentally changed my perceptions about communication and learning. Using the free software program Skype, I joined Canadian educator Darren Kuropatwa (in Winnipeg, Manitoba), Scottish educator Ewan McIntosh (in Edinburgh, Scotland), and U.S. [...] Publ.Date : Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:02:53 +0000 In the Middle of Different My name is Dawn Danker and I’m the Information and Academic Officer for Yukon Public Schools. I’m blessed to be in a district where we are focused on a vision for Excellence in Education through the means of providing dynamic opportunities to our students. We are building environments where our students can begin to explore [...] Publ.Date : Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:36:59 +0000 Storychasing Summer Camp Earlier this month, I had the privilege to accompany my son and his scout troop to summer camp in Colorado. Our group for the week included about 40 boys and 10 parents. Shortly after arriving at the church before our departure by charter bus, one of the other parents approached me and asked if I'd [...] Publ.Date : Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:29:24 +0000 Coming in November 2010: Harry Potter 7 (Part 1) I can't wait for November to get here and part one of the final Harry Potter movie series: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." The movie trailer looks great! In case you're wondering when the movie creators are going to split the final book to make the two movie segments, the "Story" section of the [...] Publ.Date : Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:15:10 +0000 Alan November’s website was hacked If this can happen to Alan November, it can happen to any of us using WordPress as a blogging platform on a self-hosted website. Vulnerabilities like this are not limited to WordPress, however, they can happen to any website. YouTube was hacked on July 4th this year, and Justin Bieber's videos seemed to get the [...] Publ.Date : Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:42:09 +0000 Build Your PLN by Miguel Guhlin (Find me on Plurk/Twitter at "mguhlin") As a educator, probably one of the tougher challenges you face isn’t just keeping up with the technology, but rather understanding how to leverage it in your teaching and learning situation. While in the past, we were limited by the occasions that served as “learning experiences,” in [...] Publ.Date : Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:00:59 +0000 Why email is NOT good enough for communication today Email is an example of "one to one" (or one to a defined many) communication. When you send an email, you have to specify the recipients in the TO, CC, and BCC fields of your message. While your email message COULD be forwarded on to others (resulting in a greater distribution) and along the line [...] Publ.Date : Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:00:50 +0000 Connect your iPad to a shared (ad-hoc) wifi network on an Apple laptop This evening I'm staying at a hotel where wireless Internet (wifi) is not available in my room, but a free wired Internet connection IS provided. These are the steps I followed to create a temporary, "ad-hoc" wireless network (a wifi hotspot) using my Apple laptop. After following these steps, I was able to connect my [...] Publ.Date : Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:50:00 +0000 Favorite iPad News Apps: July 2010 I LOVE reading news and blog posts on my iPad. Back in May 2010, I used Appolicious to create a "curated list" of the best news apps for the iPad and posted them here. This evening I tried to update that list and was not able to, so I renamed it "Favorite iPad News Apps [...] Publ.Date : Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:46:49 +0000 Surviving the Liberian Civil War – A Personal Story Oklahoma teacher Caroline Barchue created the 3.5 minute video, "Surviving the Liberian Civil War," as her "teacher B-side" video project this week during the Oklahoma Creativity Institute. Take a few minutes to listen to her story. It puts a lot in perspective, including the FEARS we may have as teachers about learning to teach with [...] Publ.Date : Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:34:22 +0000 Helping a six year old learn about iTunes AudioBook purchases and simple division Over the years our family has purchased various iPod models, and we tend to pass them down by age. Currently, this means my six year old daughter is the proud owner of a 2 GB second generation iPod Nano purchased in 2006. That was payment for her sister's work (who was then about to enter [...] Publ.Date : Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:28:59 +0000 Top Android Phone Apps Note: The following is a guest blog post by Miguel Guhlin, Around the Corner. Source: http://www.utahands.com/artists/miles/images/paintings_files/cheshire_cat.jpg "iPhone has tons of great apps," argued a colleague at a conference. I stared at her hand, which held her iPhone up, waving it around to find nearby restaurants. For the life of me, I couldn't think of an [...] Publ.Date : Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:01:47 +0000 |
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