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macworld 2012, Visual Note-Taking with the iPad

Yes, I just spent the past week at macworld|iworld 2012 and after a two-year break from my previous macworlds and my first participation as a presenter I can say that my mind is fully blown. I created a website for my presentation and play to post the full slide show REAL SOON NOW. You can …

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What Does a Tech-Savvy 21st-Century School Look Like?

What does one expect when about to tour a public school described as innovative and tech-savvy? Classrooms filled with rows and rows of white gleaming tables populated by endless computer monitors under antiseptic white fluorescent lights? Giant wall monitors in the office and all common areas with the day’s activities scrolling below a looping-video of …

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What Are You Getting for Your College Education Dollars?

  A link showed up in my twitter-stream to a website dedicated to the belief that they got ripped off attending the university where I teach. It was more than a tad depressing to have my university called a diploma mill or that it’s accredited by the same organization that accredits dog grooming schools. I’d …

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PBS Digital Media – New Learners Of The 21st Century

Watch the full episode. See more Digital Media – New Learners Of The 21st Century. Watching this as a educator and knowing how little “the public” seems to understand whats happening makes me think of the title: Education: It’s Complicated. Thanks emdt student, John Carter for the heads-up.

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There are more of us out there than you think

  I just had a chat with Karl Peterson, current month 12 student, he called to share that he’d met a professor, Jim Groom, at the University of Mary Washington who’s doing a course on Digital Storytelling as an open university course. According to Peterson, Groom has no formal ed tech training but is mirroring …

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The Battle for Wisconsin: $$$ vs. Education/Unions

I have several students and a number of friends in Madison and I am so glad that they are there speaking up for what’s right and not accepting the misguided plans of Gov. Walker. I love in these videos that those who would not have been effected by Walker’s bill, the fire and police unions, …

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Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

Why do we do what we do? Some might respond that asking such questions is a typical first-world problem, that it’s the modern equivalent to trying to figure out how many angels can dance on the head because with so many people going hungry in the world and in our own country, how dare we …

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FilmRiot: Videographer’s Resource

Those interested in taking their videos up to the next level of film-making need to subscribe to this video podcast: film riot. It’s a quick how-to series that packs a lot of helpful info into very short segments in an entertaining and crazy way. Check it out, Now! Oh yeah, be warned, these guys think …