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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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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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
I'm working on a new podcasting project that I'm excited about. "Conference Connections" is a new podcast channel hosted at the Apple Learning Interchange. I'm at FETC in Orlando right now getting ready to record sessions and other interviews from the conference. I'll be at TCEA in Austin, TX in ...
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
I got the following tidbit in an email from ISTE today.
*Visit ISTE on MySpace*
Known to most people as the premier social networking site, MySpace is home to tens of millions of users. People of all ages use this free service to communicate with one another through pictures, videos, blogs, ...
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Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
A professor of mine, Dr. Scott McLeod, was apparently bitten by the blogging bug recently and has started a great new blog called Dangerously Irrelevant about educational technology leadership. This blog was long overdue because Scott is never short on opinions and he has an approachable, thought-provoking way of presenting ...
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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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Thursday, April 21st, 2005
I'm happy to announce that the Hopkins Information Technology Standards for Students (HITS) are now available for all the world to see on the Web under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license. These standards are the product of many talented Hopkins educators. From the HITS Web page:The Hopkins Instructional Technology Standards ...
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Monday, February 14th, 2005
I'm in Rochester today and tomorrow working as a mentor with teams of technology leaders from school districts here in southeast Minnesota. According to the ISTE Institute Web site, I'm an "expert mentor" who will be helping the teams put the NETS to work in their schools. The participants will ...
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Monday, December 6th, 2004
This session is presented by my colleague Jon Berry who, in cooperation with our district's staff development and mentorship coordinator, Debbie Ondov, developed a set of technology standards for our district's non-tenured teachers. They combined Charlotte Danielson's Framework for effective teaching and ISTE's NETS-T standards.
The Danielson framework has four domains ...
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2004
I've been meaning to put in a plug for TeacherHosting.com since getting back from NECC. I get questions occasionally from teachers who want to know how to get started with blogs, and I've usually recommended Typepad. That's a great system, but TeacherHosting.com has even better prices for an unlimited number ...
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