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Tripline: The interface we always wanted for Google Lit Trips… and more! Mike Bryant dropped me an email last night recommending that I check out Tripline, and boy am I glad he did!  It’s another one of those sites that allows you to create custom Google Maps, but the interface and features make it stand head and shoulders above many others.  It has the social features that [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tripline: The interface we always wanted for Google Lit Trips… and more!Mike Bryant dropped me an email last night recommending that I check out Tripline, and boy am I glad he did!  It’s another one of those sites that allows you to create custom Google Maps, but the interface and features make it stand head and shoulders above many others.  It has the social features that [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast – Is three too young for an account on YouTube?Image by amandacphoto via Flickr And yes, that is a serious question. I really enjoyed doing the last podcast and had a few thoughts bouncing around the ol’ noggin yesterday afternoon. So I said, “What the heck, let’s let it roll…” Recorded another podcast during the drive home. Two in one week, will wonders never [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast – Is three too young for an account on YouTube?Image by amandacphoto via Flickr And yes, that is a serious question. I really enjoyed doing the last podcast and had a few thoughts bouncing around the ol’ noggin yesterday afternoon. So I said, “What the heck, let’s let it roll…” Recorded another podcast during the drive home. Two in one week, will wonders never [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast – Remember when nobody was on Twitter? We all do.Image via Wikipedia I guess I was feeling reflective yesterday, got the bug to create a podcast. Not a big deal, I know, people do it all the time. I think this was the first one I’ve done in about a year, so it felt like a big deal to me. I talk about that [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast – Remember when nobody was on Twitter? We all do.Image via Wikipedia I guess I was feeling reflective yesterday, got the bug to create a podcast. Not a big deal, I know, people do it all the time. I think this was the first one I’ve done in about a year, so it felt like a big deal to me. I talk about that [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Turn your iPhone into a Digital MicroscopeImage by BWJones via Flickr The camera on the iPhone 4 is pretty good, but this mod really puts it over the top. Over at the Crabfu Artworks blog, the author discovered that if you take a 13 dollar microscope and glue it to a cheap iPhone case, you can turn your iPhone into a [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Musical iPadImage by Yohei Yamashita via Flickr Remember when it was first released, how people said that the iPad is a device that can only be used to consume information? More and more, we’re finding it being embraced by artists, and in particular… musicians.  From DJ’s to students, to professional members of symphony orchestras, the iPad [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ISTE 2010 Wrapup
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This was a busy ISTE to say the least! While normally I make a point to hit at least a few sessions, this year it was all work. 3 presentations, 1 workshop, combined with booth time and a Wilkes grad course wrapping up made for a crazy hectic week. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 40 blogs were posted while you read this.
Saw this while hunting for a post on Darren Kuropatwa’s blog. You can see the complete article here, but I think the ‘ticker’ speaks for itself. And really drives home the need to teach information literacy. The amount of content being created and consumed on a daily basis is pretty unreal.
Don’t forget [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TEDxNYED and Dan Meyer
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While en route to England, I had about 8 hours of time to kill. One way that I filled it was to download all the presentations from the recent TEDxNYED and watch them on the iPad. Truly a treat to say the least.
While there were several that [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Top 10 Web 2.0 for Educators – NICE Miniconference
Will be presenting in about 10 minutes at the NICE mini conference here in Illinois. Doing a revamped version of my Top 10 Web 2.0 for Educators. Most radical change is that I don’t have an aggregator in there. Still kinda torn about that. Part of it is that time is [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Haiti 360
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With all the news about the disaster in Haiti, one of the more interesting things I’ve seen technologically recently came from there. I’ve seen 360 videos before, going all the way back to Quicktime VR and such. But this absolutely fascinates me.
This video was shot on January 18th, and [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What could you do with Augmented Reality?
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Augmented reality is one of the few technologies that have come out within the last few years that really have the ability to simply drop jaws. Primarily, it’s hung out in the marketing field, and been used in car ads and recently on the cover of Esquire magazine. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Would you blog?
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Like many other bloggers that I consider to be colleagues, my blogging has tapered off quite a bit over the years, and while some of the fault lies in myself, I put most of the blame squarely on Twitter. Why take half an hour to write several paragraphs, hyperlink [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CDWG presents: Dembo and Davidson on Web 2.0Speaking of tools (no pun intended), Hall and I had the pleasure of spending a few days in Discovery’s green screen studio recently to create a series of videos focusing on Web 2.0. They’ve been released as part of CDWG’s Conquering Technophobia mini-site, which has the videos we created as well as a slew [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What can you do with a cell phone in the classroom?Matt Monjan let me know that the Simpsons spoofed cell phones in the classroom this past weekend. Yes, it’s funny, but it’s also frustrating because there’s so many hints of truth in there. Give the segment a watch before continuing.
Yes, it’s a comedy, but comedies are only funny if there’s kernels of truth [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This is just a test for SyracuseThis is a blog post
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I was talking to a friend of mine today about different videos on YouTube, and I was astonished by how many videos that I consider to be ‘mandatory viewing’ he hadn’t seen. I’m not talking about the video of my son’s bris (although it IS compelling), I mean some of the videos [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Destination irrelevantFound via EDITing in the Dark
I’ve been a Mythbusters fan, long before I started working for Discovery. What blew me away when I had the opportunity to meet them, was that I discovered there was absolutely no acting on the show. They really are as passionate about learning as they seem to [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Little Red Riding Hood Remixed
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Found this on Dan Pink’s blog:
I mentioned before how much I love the idea of turning assignments into creative briefs.
So what happens if you take a fairy tale that’s near and dear to all our hearts, and give it a new spin? While this wasn’t done by a [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday morning video breakNo specific educational tie in to this one. Unless you think there’s more to life than test scores and that art appreciation is an important part of educating well rounded students.
Enjoy.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A few highlights from ICE09Illinois Computing Educators 2009 has come and gone! I’m too tired to write a coherant wrap up post right now, but I will say this: There was a closeness, family type of feeling there this year beyond what I’ve seen in years past. Not that it hasn’t always been a tight knit group, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Your Digital DossierAndy Carvin shared this video via tweet that does in incredible job of summing up what the New Permanent Record is, in a much more succinct way than I’ve ever managed to.
As you watch this video, consider what these students will look like when they enter your classroom. Honestly, will they care one whit [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Film on the FlyImage by Getty Images via Daylife
Janet English over at KOCE has been hard at work putting together the Film on the Fly video challenge and yesterday was the big day! Early in the day, she sent out a text message to everyone who signed up with the prompt: “Everything changed - when the box [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Net Generation Education Project and Book ClubVERY excited to share with you the latest monstrosity to come from the Davis/Lindsay labs. As you’ll see, they’ve come up with a fantastic collaborative project, and I’m thrilled to be a part of it. Read, soak it in, and then apply to become a part of it…. and join the book [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Networked Student… in plain EnglishThis CommonCraft inspired video does an excellent job of explaining what a truly networked student looks like. And more importantly, what the teachers role is for them.
Consider it your weekend video break.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Celebrate the Day of the Ninja! I always look forward to December 5th for two reasons. It happens to be my birthday, but more importantly, it’s also the Day of the Ninja! It’s the day when everybody, everywhere gets to… well… act like a ninja I guess! I’ve always been a big fan of ninjas. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Real world artImage by hoyasmeg via FlickrOver coffee today, somebody shared with me a website where peopled posted a creative brief for a logo or design they were looking for and how much they were willing to pay. Then people competed to win the ‘prize’. The site is called CrowdSPRING and what’s amazing about it [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Google Teacher Academy wrapupBeen meaning to write up some quick thoughts about Google Teacher Academy: Chicago, but realize that time is fleeting and I just didn’t see myself getting to it soon. SO, I decided to go the video route and do a quick vlog wrapup about it.
FYI, that’s the last time I use the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A CarCast, a BikeCast, and… a GovernmentCast ?It’s no secret that I’m fascinated by live video streaming. I’ve never been one to do much editing, I like my media authentic, unscripted and unfiltered. And that’s the way I’ve always podcasted, well back when I used to do it on a regular basis (more often than once year).
Well, in [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A CarCast, a BikeCast, and… a GovernmentCast ?It’s no secret that I’m fascinated by live video streaming. I’ve never been one to do much editing, I like my media authentic, unscripted and unfiltered. And that’s the way I’ve always podcasted, well back when I used to do it on a regular basis (more often than once year).
Well, in [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mobile phones in the classroom…. againPogue shared a letter that’s got me all riled up again…
I’m a high school teacher. Like all high schools, we are dealing with a problem that sucks time, energy, and resources like a black hole: cellphones. We waged a similar battle a few years back with iPods, and although stakes seem much higher now, the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: All a’Twitter about Second LifeCan you guess what’s on my mind in this podcast? That’s right, the two hottest buzzwords in the EdTech community right now. Twitter and Second Life. I’m about as bullish on Twitter as you can get, and I’m really starting to sink my teeth into SL now. On the verge of [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: My life, my feedHow many feeds do you have? I’m not asking how many you subscribe to, rather how many do you own? Do you have a blog or two? A del.icio.us account? Have you posted a YouTube video? Do you have a podcast? Share photos on Flickr? All of these [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teach42 Podcast: Twas the night before Passover…I’m not sure how many people discuss the pros and cons of allowing public blog commenting on students blogs at their seder table, but that’s what’s on my mind! The Kathy Sierra situation and Stop Cyberbullying day has left a taste in my mouth worse than matzah with a heaping helping of horseradish. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Mothers, don’t let your babies grow up to be filtered.Ladies and Gentleman, this is the third podcast in as many days. Being published a day behind, but that’s no big deal. And I do believe that I’ve now published as many podcasts this week as the last 12 months combined. Yikes!Topic: Filters… *grunt* What are they good for? Absolutely [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PhoneCast: Where’s the free stuff with the “EduSafe” sticker?Two for two! This podcast was recorded yesterday, but I didn’t get a chance to upload it till now. Audio kinda stinks, but sometimes you just have to make do with the tools you have. The fact that I could still create a podcast despite the fact that I had no equipment [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teach42 Podcast: UnpluggedI know, I know. It’s been freakin’ forever. But yes, I have uploaded a podcast. It’s about 16 minutes long. It doesn’t have a fancy intro. In fact, there’s no music or editing at all. No guests, no new resources for you, heck it probably doesn’t even merit show [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Conference versus ConversationYikes, this is starting to become a habit again! This podcast recaps a few conversations that were scattered around NECC and the DEN National Leadership Conference. I’ve heard from many people that the most valuable part of the last few conferences they’ve attended have been the conversations that have occured with other attendee’s [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Browsing the Library of Congress
If you haven’t explored the Library of Congress website lately, you should. I spent some time in their booth and NECC and was impressed by what they have to offer there. While I wasn’t impressed with the layout of the site, the content is well worth wading through. I also discovered that [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Twas the night before NECC…I know, it sounds crazy, but I’ve got a podcast to share! It’s the night before NECC and if all goes well, I’m going to have a bunch of audio to share throughout the conference. July is actually going to be a pretty busy conference month, so I should have stuff to share [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teach42 - The future is half empty?Dave Warlick posted a year end podcast containing a few hundred interviews with teachers encouraging them to think about what the classroom of 2015 would look like. Unfortunately, I have to disagree with the projections of many of the teachers. I wouldn’t go so far as to say I have a pessimistic view [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teach42 - A new podcast XP-erienceIt’s sad to say, but the Teach42 podcast is going back to the dark side. I’m selling off my Powerbook and need to figure out the best way to create a podcast in a Windows environment. I spent a few hours prior to this podcast trying out some different software. I never [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blawgthink and Open SpaceLast week I presented a little session about podcasting at Blawgthink, a conference for legal bloggers. The first day of the conference was fairly traditional, with various strands and presentations for all varieties of skill levels. The second day was entirely in the Open Space format. There were no scheduled sessions, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Back in the saddle again!Guess what’s back? The Teach42.com Podcast!Yes, that’s right. After months of silence, I finally have a microphone strapped to my skull once again. It’s nothing earth shattering, just an update about what’s been happening and me getting my feet wet once again. It sounds dumb, but there’s a ton that I [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast- -Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast- -Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast- -Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | |