Musings on Education, Technology, Pop Culture, Religion & Staying Curious
Recently The Chronicle of Higher Education said it more emphatically with the headline: “A Tech-Happy Professor Reboots After Hearing His Teaching Advice Isn’t Working.” According to the Chronicle, it seems that Internet superstar/Youtube ethnographer, Professor Michael Wesch of Kansas State University is rethinking his anti-chalk-and-talk tech-infused simulation-styled classroom. It would seem that many are following [...]
Social-centric news website Mashable recently ran an article on SoapBox with the headline: New App Tells Teachers When Students Are Confused. Those who have vague memories of spending their days in class daydreaming and those have spent the past few years battling students who secretly spend their class time texting their friends, might respond, “What [...]
by Robin Worley, Ed.D. Pepperdine co-conspirator and digital-equity advocate Robin Worley has found a way to take the easy-of-use and multimedia functions of iBooks Author and make to resulting e-Book accessible to any device that can use Adobe Acrobat ereader software. Enjoy. I wanted to make a multimedia etext for students, but ran into a [...]
FullSail/EMDT graduate, Peter Binskin is back at it with the following video. Enjoy. And happy Presidents Day! Uploaded by PPGfreak62 on Feb 13, 2012 http://www.facebook.com/ListOfPresidents This link is for the associated fanpage on Facebook. This is the second of the Presidents Day songs and was written in response to requests for more songs for elementary [...]
TT9102: Visual Note-Taking with the iPad (10:00am) Speaker: Rachel Smith, Director, Digital Facilitation Services, The Grove Consultants The iPad is the perfect tool for digital visual note-taking. Rachel pioneered this practice at Northern Voice, a Canadian blogging conference, just after the first iPad was released, and her visual notes were an instant hit among conference attendees. [...]
TT951: Main Stage: The Future of Learning (10:00am) Speaker: Nick Floro, President, Sealworks Interactive Studios Blurb: Join us for this in-depth look at how Apple design and technologies are changing learning today and what’s just around the corner. We’ll also look at HTML5, Gamification, Personalization, Mobile, and Augmented Reality to see how learning is changing. What can [...]
Question by FullSail/EMDT grad, Nancy Melashenko: Can you still recommend Word Press for education blogging? Hmmm, interesting question. It really depends on the goal/purpose of the “educational” blogging. There are so many tools that do the community part a bit better, like the elementary school friendly edublogs, that doing a wordpress roll-your-own might not be [...]
This was my fifth macworld (2000, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012) but my first one without Apple participation or a major opening session keynote. This was also the first macworld where I was going to be a presenter (see CUE@macworld2012) so I was really looking forward to this adventure. One interesting thing that I had noted [...]
After spending the previous day traveling from Orlando to San Francisco and the previous night getting to know my CUE@macworld 2012 companions it was time to go down to the Moscone Center West for our day long series of presentations. You can follow my tweets from the day before here (addition links to tweets will be [...]
It’s a bit hard to believe that it was almost three weeks ago that I flew to San Francisco to attend Macworld|iWorld 2012 and to do my 30 minute presentation at the pre-conference CUE@macworld session. I had toyed with the idea of doing a video recording of my talk, but decided, given that this would [...]
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