Presidents Day: Mr. Lincoln [music video by Peter Binskin]
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...
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No iPad? No problem. Make a multimedia etext with iAuthor and share it with...
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...
View ArticleSoapBox – Technology Bridge to Assist Learning or Just Another EdTech Gadget?
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...
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Sometimes What’s Broke in Education Can’t Be Fixed by Tech, says Michael Wesch
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...
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Sometimes What’s Broke in Education Can’t Be Fixed by Tech, Part 2: What...
Just before Apple announced it’s e-textbook/education event in late January, 9to5mac ran an article that harkened back to a 1996 Wired Magazine interview during which Steve Jobs famously said, “What’s...
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What Education Misses By Its Fear of Mistakes
Soon-to-be EMDT Graduate and freelance photographer, Drew Fulton wrote the following blog post as a reflection on our course reading, The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin...
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How the iPad will change education by Nick La Fountain
After the original iPad was released (back in 2010), one of my students wrote the following blog post about how the iPad will change education. How will the iPad change education? By Nick La Fountain...
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Passion Is What Gets You Through the Fear by Drew Fulton
Soon-to-be EMDT Graduate and freelance photographer, Drew Fulton wrote the following blog post as a reflection on our course reading, The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin...
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NGLB – No Gamer Left Behind
This is a blast from the past, going back over five-year ago, before anyone had heard of “gamification” or any such nonsense. The George Lucas Foundation as part of an Edutopia documentary explored the...
View ArticleVideo Fridays: Jane McGonigal: Gaming Can Make a Better World
I guess it’s gaming week. This selection, game designer, Jane McGonigal, goes well beyond the idea that gaming isn’t just a waste of time, but a part of human evolution and should be tapped to actually...
View ArticleThe Oregon Trail: Official Movie Trailer
The more you know about the nascent computer education game the funnier this trailer is. I can’t tell you how many times I watched fourth graders lose everyone in their travel party because they shot...
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Reclaiming Testing as Part of the Learning Process
Several weeks ago i got an invitation to comment on what’s working and what could be done better by the Obama campaign… Oh yeah. So, that got the brain going. As an educator with over 16-years...
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The BYOD Option & Addressing Gary Stager’s Objections to BYOD
This post is based on a portion of the talk on the mobile-tech invasion of our classrooms that I gave at CUE@macworld2012 this past January. Enjoy. Speakers notes and references following the video....
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What Are We Really Risking When We Cut Music and Art from Education?
tyranny of beethoven and his moonlight sonata by woodleywonderworks This past month I heard from a former student, a music teacher, who had just heard that her contract was not being renewed for the...
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What Do Online Educators Do: Tools of the Trade
Image: jscreationzs / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Many years ago, when I was describing my job as a tech specialist at my school to an in-law she responded with a dismissive, Oh, so you’re not really a...
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What Do Online Educators Do: More Connected and Not Limited to Any Place or Time
As I mentioned in the previous post, there appears to be a lot confusion about what education is supposed to look like today, adding an online spin to the subject only makes matters worse. It should...
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What Do Online Educators Do: The Mythical Boundary between Personal Life and...
You don’t have to be an online educator to have boundary issue betweens ones work life and personal life. I’ve known my fair share of educators, elementary educators, who seemed to only have their work...
View ArticleWhat Do Online Educators Do: Teacher Appreciation/What Do You Make? [video...
None of these videos are directly about online education or online educators, but then, you should know that whatever qualities that are thank-worthy with traditional teachers holds true for online...
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Too Much Information: The Value of Organized Education in the Era of...
In June of 2008, when I first began working at Full Sail, I ran across an article about a Texas professor who decided to make his whole course available online because he believed that just having...
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Mistakes Were Made: End the Black Box Fallacy & Give Teaching Back to Teachers
Mistakes were made: Education… yeah, that’s not a very big target… How did we get to the point where the institution of education needs to be rescued? Before we dive into this one, I don’t mean to ask...
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