Monday, May 12th, 2008
At the most recent meeting of the Minnesota Education Media Organization Technology Special Interest Division (I couldn't resist writing that out) I learned about a cool professional development opportunity called 23 Things On a Stick. Curious about the name? If you've visited the Minnesota State Fair you'd know how we ...
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Monday, May 7th, 2007
Here's part of an email I received recently:
I'm trying to find a way to work with a wiki with my students. We're trying to do some collaborative writing type activities. I want them to work in real time in the same document so a wiki seemed perfect. However, because ...
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Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
Personal Computing In the Classroom and Beyond!
Jim Hirsch, Plano, TX
Jim is talking about how to reach every student in the classroom no matter how limited the technology resources might be. He says "the future is here already, it's just not widely distributed yet." I think that's a Tim O'Reilly quote ...
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Monday, December 4th, 2006
Here are the links for the open source tools that I mention in my talk at the TIES Conference.
Moodle, online learning management system
Audacity, audio editing
Inkscape, vector drawing
Scribus, desktop publishing
OpenOffice.org, office suite
NeoOffice, Mac version of OpenOffice.org
Linux, free Unix-like OS
Creative Commons
Open Source
Flickr, online photo sharing
Wikipedia, world's biggest encyclopedia
VLC, media player
Drupal, content management ...
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Friday, September 29th, 2006
This week's Inside the Net with Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone featured Digication, a new online learning site. The main product is Digication Campus which the creator describes as:
… a web-based classroom for teachers and students. You can post assignments. Share ideas. Talk. Listen. Learn collaboratively. Get and give help. ...
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Monday, August 7th, 2006
What do you do when your technology isn't enough to set you apart? How about making questionable patent claims and suing your chief competitors? That seems to be Blackboard's new strategy.
In a nutshell, Blackboard has apparently received a broad patent that seems to cover almost all learning management system concepts ...
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
Moodle fans everywhere rejoiced yesterday with the release of version 1.6. The new version brings some significant improvements. Here are a few of the ones that matter most to me:
"My Moodle" page now presents a summary of all the work going on in whatever courses a student is enrolled. We ...
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Monday, April 17th, 2006
I had the privilege of participating in a Web 2.0 panel discussion sponsored by the Digital Media Center at the U. of Minnesota recently. My fellow panelists were David Ernst from the College of Education, Shane Nackerud from the U. library, and Clancy Ratliff from the Department of Rhetoric.
Dave introduced ...
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Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
Click the podcast title for a direct download.
Bernajean Porter: Digital Storytelling, Part 3
May 12, 2006
MinneBar: Paul Cantrell on the future of art
May 10, 2006
Minnebar: Mark McCahill on virtual worlds
May 8, 2006
Bernajean Porter: Digital Storytelling, Part 2
April 18, 2006
Joe Lambert: Digital Storytelling, Part 1
Mar 14, 2006
Savvy Technologist Podcast program update
Feb 23, 2006
Aaron Doering: ...
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Sunday, January 1st, 2006
Thanks to the StatTraq product for WordPress, it's easy to look back and see what blog visitors are reading. Here are two top 5 lists from 2005:
Top 5 podcasts:
5. Michael Searson: Pre-service teacher education
4. STP #8: A chat with the gang
3. Scott McLeod: Data-driven Decision Making
2. Comic Life: A talk ...
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
I sat down with David Glick recently at a local library that just happens to have a coffee shop. We talked about online learning while I sipped my chai latté. Dave has been consulting with organizations that are developing online learning programs for a couple years now, and before that ...
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2005
Moodle is the biggest open source course management system in the world. It competes head-to-head with Blackboard on features and crushes the commercial competition on price. I've posted about the use of Moodle in my school district in the past, and anyone who's read any of those posts knows that ...
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