Archive for the ‘Conferences’ Category
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
I'm doing a talk at this year's TIES Education Technology Conference called "Open Source Tools You Can Use." Here's the description:
From tech support systems to graphics applications, there are hundreds of free and open source applications that will fit easily into your school’s technology environment. Participants will learn about the ...
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Friday, July 7th, 2006
I had a great time on Thursday afternoon recording an episode of my podcast in front of a live audience.
My first guest was Sonny Portacio, geocacher and Director of Technology for the Escondido Union High School District. Sonny has been doing a ton of work with geocaching lately. He's created ...
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Friday, July 7th, 2006
I had a great time presenting at NECC on Wednesday. I captured the audio (albeit in a low-quality version) and attached my Keynote slides as an enhanced podcast. I'm also linking to a pure audio MP3 version in case your computer can't handle AAC-encoded media.
I posted the links for my ...
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Thursday, July 6th, 2006
I gave a half-day workshop this morning on iPods, iTunes, and podcasting. We generated a pretty good list of ideas for uses of this technology in classrooms and schools:
Collect field notes during a science field trip
Living museum, researching characters
"Radio shows"
Creating audio guides for local museums
Teacher powerpoints
Early language learners, (rhyming, etc.)
Staff ...
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Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
Whew! Wednesday was crazy busy at NECC. I'm exhausted. If anyone reading this will be around the convention center late on Wednesday afternoon, stop by Room 31B from 5:00–6:00 for a live Savvy Technologist Podcast. One of my guests will be Jeff Utecht of The Thinking Stick blog. Jeff is ...
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Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
Here are links to all of the sites I'll be mentioning in my talk at NECC on Wednesday (and even some ones I probably won't have time to mention). I'll post more once I'm done.
Blogging
Mabryonline.org with Dr. Tim Tyson
Lewis Elementary School (Principal Tim Lauer)
Google Maps mashups
Tour de France live updates
Gmaps ...
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Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
My family and I arrived in San Diego last night, and I'm busily putting the final touches on my presentations for this year's NECC. If you're interested in seeing a session that I'll be doing, check out one of the following:
Introducing the Read/Write Web: Challenges, Opportunities, and Implications, July 5, ...
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
Paul Cantrell is a blogger and music podcaster who also happens to be a software engineer. (I wonder which one is his superhero alter ego?) He spoke at last Saturday's MinneBar conference on "The Internet and the Future of Art." It was an interactive session which made things a bit ...
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
Mark McCahill is from the University of Minnesota and is one of the architects of the Croquet Project, an open source peer-to-peer system for building virtual worlds like those found in World of Warcraft and Second Life. Those of you who've been around the Internet block a few times might ...
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Saturday, May 6th, 2006
The turnout was huge, the sessions were great, the food was delicious, and the conversations stimulating. Total cost: $3.50 for parking all day. By any measure the first Barcamp-style (un)conference in the Twin Cities was a rousing success.
I caught a total of eight talks and demos between 10:00 a.m. and ...
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Thursday, May 4th, 2006
Here's something to consider adding to your schedule for this year's NECC.
I will be doing a live Savvy Technologist Podcast on Thursday, July 6 from 5:00–6:00 p.m. in California Gold, 31B (that's the room). I don't know exactly what I'm going to do, but I know there will be plenty ...
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Sunday, April 30th, 2006
I've been to enough conferences over the last three years to realize that the most valuable experiences are often the ones that happen over a round of beers after the day's sessions are done. The most recent example was a fantastic conversation I had at FETC. These conversations form what ...
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