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Cross-posted to the Storychasers blog. This week Oklahoma educators participated in our 29th “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” workshop since 2008, and created some fantastic digital stories about the history, geography, and people of our great state. Did you know Oklahoma is home to a growing black bear population and just had its first open hunting season for bears [...]

This is an excellent thirteen minute video of ideas from Alan November about transforming our schools into the learning spaces we need in the 21st century. Find more videos like this on NL Connect Among many things, Alan says: We need to redefine learners as contributors. This requires a fundamental shift in our thinking about schools. [...]

Please join educators worldwide TONIGHT/TODAY on November 18, 2009 at 22:30GMT/ 3:30pmPST/ 4:30pmMST/ 5:30pmCST/ 6:30pmEST for a live event of the 2009 K12Online Conference On November 18, the K12Online Conference is hosting a LAN party from 6:30PM to 8:30PM EST. We invite everyone to gather at the LAN party site with colleagues in order to view two [...]

Greg Thompson in his post, “The Landscape of Educational Culture” has it right. We must re-imagine our schools and end the madness of high stakes testing as well as “standards-based” educational reform. He writes: We can’t have both. We can’t create a thriving, innovative, creative, vibrant learning environment and pair it with common standards supported by [...]

Last week Tom Krazit reported for CNET that Google has confirmed its purchase of Gizmo5. This was confirmed on the official Google Voice blog the same day. The old Gizmo Project website (www.gizmoproject.com) now directs to Google (www.google.com/gizmo5) and new memberships have been temporarily suspended. According to Tom’s article: Gizmo5 is a Web-based VoIP client that [...]

The Oklahoma State Department of Education announced last week via a letter to superintendents in our state a “1:1 Digital Classroom Project Applicant’s Leadership Conference” scheduled for Monday, November 30, 2009. The conference will be held at Metro Technology Center in Oklahoma City, and registration is open for three individuals per eligible site on the [...]

I learned this morning video content from the September 30th symposium at UCO in Edmond, Oklahoma, “A New Renaissance: A Revolution of Creativity and Learning” is available for download via iTunes. Here is a direct link to the event’s iTunesU site, which is part of UCO’s iTunes site. A link to the event’s mobile site [...]

I received the following comment today on my August 21, 2009 post, “Questioning the potential value of Skype and videoconferencing in the classroom?” from Ricky. He began his comment by quoting a sentence of my post with which he took issue, and then shared his views: “we need to make sure that networks work FOR THE [...]

Our 15 year old babysitter recently showed my kids the YouTube video, Potter Puppet Pals in “The Mysterious Ticking Noise.” This 2 minute and 6 second video has had over 71 million views to date. If your students have access at home to YouTube, chances are good many of them have seen this. My 11 year [...]

It’s unfortunate but true that in many US schools as well as some countries (like China) “web shortener” URLs like tinyurl.com, bit.ly, ow.ly, etc are BLOCKED. If you’re in this boat, give Untiny a try. If this site is unblocked, you can enter the shortened URL into Untiny and it will convert / extract / [...]

This functionality has been available on Google Documents for awhile, but this evening I finally took some time to try it for myself. Like commercial survey services like SurveyMonkey, Google Forms (a feature of Google Spreadsheets on Google Docs) now supports branching, or conditional survey questions! This means you can ask a question, and route survey [...]

Check out this past Thursday’s Seedlings webcast (available as an audio podcast) when Maria Knee discussed the upcoming 2009 K-12 Online Conference! They also discussed what Maria’s been doing the past 6 months, H1N1, and Monarchs in Space! Cross-posted to the K-12 Online Conference Blog. Technorati Tags: k12online, k12online09, webcast

Today at the TIC TAC Conference in Tonganoxie, Kansas, I shared a breakout session titled, “Crafting Your Digital Footprint.” My 9 year old, Sarah, led this session several weeks ago in Maine at the ACTEM09 Conference. Thanks to TWiT Podcast 218, I learned this week (in advance of the session in Tonganoxie) that Google Profiles now [...]

These are my notes from the panel presentation, “Unlocking the Past: Techniques for Conducting Meaningful Interviews” at the “Oral History for the 21st Century” Symposium in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This conference is sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Oklahoma History Center, Oklahoma Historical Records Advisory Board, Oklahoma Humanities Council, Oklahoma Museums Association, and Oklahoma [...]

These are my notes from Donald Ritchie’s presentation, “Fast Forward: Oral History in the 21st Century” on November 12, 2009, at the “Oral History for the 21st Century” Symposium in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This conference is sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Oklahoma History Center, Oklahoma Historical Records Advisory Board, Oklahoma Humanities Council, Oklahoma [...]