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Everything New is Old Again BLC08

July 18th, 2008 · No Comments

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John Davitt’s Session at BLC

July 17th, 2008 · No Comments

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Marc Prensky:The Death of the Classroom and the Rebirth of Learning in the 21st Century

July 17th, 2008 · No Comments

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BLC Keynote Day 2-John Davitt

July 17th, 2008 · No Comments

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End of Day 1 Notes-Alan November

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Alan November decided that he wanted to have an influencial girl he met at NECC present instead. She is an elevn year old from Hong Kong, to protect her I will not provide her name.

She is definitely a 21st Century kid. She has a homepage that engaging. She is an informaiton prosumer. She collects podcasts, writes blog entires, creates slideshows, interacts with people from around the world.

She is motivated to write outside of her schoolwork. She feels that she is not outside of the norm compared to classmates, which got a chuckle form the crowd. The crowd was asked to answer a questions that goes something like…if she were to enroll in our school next year would you be able to engage her to the extent that she is use to. Answer went from we can catch her up to not a chance. The response the from crowd was slightly less or no way. Which is scary to think that she would have to repreat a year to make up for the time in the US.

She can control the level of viewership of her page. She has facebook and connects through facebook and CLC (her school toolset).

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Promise into Practice BLC08

July 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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BCL Session 2

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments

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Checking Out Lively

July 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Today Google announced their entry into a virtual world, Lively. So far it is only for XP users. To register you need to have a Google account, big surprise there. Here is a screenshot showing the interface.

lively-hangout Checking Out Lively

Lively lives within the browser so you don’t need to run a separate application.  It is very similar to Second Life where you can chat, create rooms (rent-free), decorate, and move around.  Users can add friends and go from place to place by clicking on links.

Based on my initial review you can embed the room into a web page.

As I get a chance to play more with the product I will blog about for your reading pleasure.

Just a reminder that EduBloggerCon East/BLC is coming up on Monday.

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This I Believe…

June 10th, 2008 · No Comments

I got what I deserved.  I recently tagged Alice Barr and tonight she returned the favor.  This I Believe was started by Barry Bachenheimer.  So here is my list

  • I believe we get so caught up in a routine we forget how exciting it is to discover something new.
  • I believe we need to be reminded of what is best for children and not ourselves when it comes to teaching.
  • I believe that technology can enhance not replace many aspects of what we do daily.
  • I believe the operating system has little to do with the quality of the tool.
  • I believe students can be empowered to do more than we give them credit for each day.
  • I believe professionals need to be treated like professionals.
  • I believe people need to follow their passions and dreams and not settle.

To pay it forward…

Dan and Jeff at Wicked Decent Learning
Cathy Wolinsky
Sharon Betts

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Email attachments without the hassle

June 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The Scribd Blog

Have you ever sent an attachment to someone and realized they don’t have the necessary program to open it? I’m guilty. Part of my job as a troubleshooter is to help staff open documents that are in unique formats. Most of the time my Macintosh helps out XP users (no this is not a platform bashing entry) but there are time s that I I can’t seem to opn it. Lately I’ve been using Zamzar but so are many others and the service has slowed down to a crawl. Tonight I realized that Scribd’s ipaper can help out.

From their blog…

Simply add ipaper@scribd.com to the cc: field of your email along with one or more attachments, and send it off. Scribd will automatically convert your document attachments to iPaper, and then forward you and your email’s recipients a link to the document on Scribd. Your iPaper attachment will be marked private, so only you and your recipients will be able to view it.

Here is a video to help show off the feature.

I envision using this when someone sends me let’s say a Word 2007 file. I would simply email myself and use the ipaper cc to convert it. This could come in handy with assignments done in M$Works or WordPerfect (yes some people still use these programs).

Last night Jott made my life easier and tonight Scribd has become a lifeline. What will tomorrow bring? I can’t wait to find out.

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