Archive for the ‘Conferences’ Category
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
The Blue Skunk himself put in an appearance at this year's TIES conference. Doug is presenting about the social web and some issues that schools encounter trying to understand it. Doug's handouts are posted on his blog. In particular, a large list of links are on this PDF version of ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
We've been preparing to implement the ITIL standards in my district for about a year now. Now that five of us have achieved the foundation certification, I think we're poised to make some significant headway this year. This presentation from the TIES Conference is a description of some of the ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Kurt Steinhaus is Deputy Cabinet Secretary of Education in New Mexico. (He's also a marathoner who ran 4:38 at the 2007 Duke City Marathon.) The title of his talk is "Enjoying T-Time by the Sip or by the Gulp?". His slides will be available on the conference wiki.
Kurt wants us ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Here are some notes from my presentation about virtualization technology. I'll update this post after my session to cover some of the topics that come up in the discussion.
Learn more about virtualization
An Introduction to Virtualization by Amit Singh
The Pros and Cons of Virtualization
Server virtualization at InfoWorld
Intro to Virtualizaton and Virtualization ...
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
I'll be at this year's TIES Conference next Monday and Tuesday doing a couple presentations, connecting with old friends and colleagues, and scoping out the vendors. If you're in the neighborhood, here's the info on my presentations. I decided to go a little more geeky for a change this year. ...
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Saturday, October 6th, 2007
I did a 45-minute podcasting presentation at MEMO yesterday which focused on some of the practical aspects of podcasting. One of the things we talked a bit about was equipment for video podcasting. (I really don't like the "vodcasting" or "vlogging" name.) I'm thinking about starting a video podcast, so ...
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
The crew at Mashable put together a really useful post entitled Podcasting Toolbox: 70+ Podcasting Tools and Resources last July. I get a lot of questions about the production and publication side of podcasting, and I've started sending people to that list because it's really a comprehensive collection of all ...
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
Joe Morelock and I are presenting a podcasting workshop at this year's NECC. Here are some links to various things we mentioned:
Podcast examples
Radio WillowWeb
Grammar Girl
Equipment
Rode Podcaster microphone
M-Audio MicroTrack
Marantz PMD-670
Copyright
Creative Commons and ccMixter
Freeplaymusic.com
I'll update some more after this afternoon's session.
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
If you want to catch a lot of great content from this year's NECC, make sure you subscribe to Conference Connections. This is the podcast channel that has taken all my attention away from my own podcasting for the past 6–9 months or so. I'm really stoked that we're the ...
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
7:16 a.m. Ugh. That's a bit earlier than I like for air travel departures. But at least I have several days of interesting conversations and endless audio editing to look forward to.
NECC is back and in Atlanta this year. I'll be doing two identical half-day workshops (Podcasting—The New Voice for ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2007
I'll be in San Francisco this weekend for the National School Boards Assocation annual conference. I don't think I'll be doing any podcast recording, but I'll be hanging out at the Apple booth talking with people about podcasting. I'm working the morning shift on Saturday and Sunday, and I'd love ...
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Here are links to all of the sites I'll be mentioning in my talk at IL-TCE on Thursday and Friday.
Blogging
The Savvy Technologist
Lewis Elementary School (Principal Tim Lauer)
Getting started with blogging: Wordpress.com, Blogger
Google Maps mashups
Housing Maps
Chicago Crime
Tag searching
IL-TCE postings
...
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