We just saw the longest pass play in OSU history - 96 yard pass for a TD
Watching Oklahoma State play Iowa State in Stillwater
new post: Looking for cheap gas? Come to Oklahoma - http://twurl.nl/mycnka
new post: Phenomenal Oklahoma family stories from COV this week - http://twurl.nl/irlm68
@gardenglen It was great! Low key and relaxing. My wife did cook most of the day to make it all happen tho. What a treat!
New learning signs post: Favorite Halloween Photos (from tonight) - http://tinyurl.com/6cb4df
@TeachaKidd Thanks - do you have a link to that article? I am not sure I’ve seen it.
new post: Mr. T is not familiar with connectivism - http://twurl.nl/vfys2e
new post: Beware: YouTube video annotations may be inappropriately disruptive - http://twurl.nl/uuo254
new post: Free AT&T Wi-Fi access to iPhone customers - http://twurl.nl/3matdq
k12online08 week2 fireside chat in Elluminate Live is starting now! Click the link to join us! http://snurl.com/3xbc0
@ryanbretag check the k12online08 blog and the Voicethreads for each preso!
K12online08 fireside chat with week 2 presenters starts in 54 minutes!
does anyone have links to a succinct quickstart guide for iMovie? Something less than 10 pages, with the newer version (Not iMovieHD6)
@john_larkin is there an organized movement in NSW articulating a different vision of content filtering?
new video podcast/screencast: Using FeedForAll To Update K-12 Online Conference Podcast Channel Web Feeds - http://twurl.nl/ubj3jf
new post: New South Wales throws down the glove for student hackers - http://twurl.nl/ttxwm5
@jebswebs thanks - it has been interesting how many ebook references I’ve run across on TV and the web the past few days…
new podcast: Navigating Opportunities and Risks in Hyperconnected Schools (TechCon 2008 Keynote) - http://twurl.nl/8sfobp
new post: Advancing eBook technologies - http://twurl.nl/axr3md
Wall Street Journal article today: “Twitter Goes Mainstream” - http://twurl.nl/dljodu
well, it does help IF you actually update the correct podcast feed in feedburner when you resync… I did, and now all is well… :-)
the xml source feeds DO show they are updated. I wonder if something is hanging up feedburner’s update? never had this before.
strange - I have updated video and audio podcast feeds, pinged feedburner, and resynced but still no update on feedburner
just finished k12online conveners meeting… 1 more week to go…
@netTrekker that would be fine! I AM a fan of nettrekker! (and a subscriber for our family)
new post: Deterring bag shoplifters and trash depositors - http://twurl.nl/4u3w45
The PPT and video worked great for our men’s conference speaker breakfast session! MP4 video clips on his flash drive. Relief and joy!
@nickkearney yes I thought about using a forest fire image… the candle seemed better!
thanks @bobsprankle for article Students Competing For Slots At Elite Colleges Resorting To “Facebook Sabotage” - http://twurl.nl/l8j48d
On EdTechTalk live NOW with Seedlings! http://edtechtalk.com/li…
new post: The mind of a learner: Iron, Marble, Receptacle or Flame? - http://twurl.nl/x12113
@LsShanks suggested response: “No I’m sorry.”
Seedlings webcast on EdTechTalk starts in 30 minutes! We’ll be talking K12Online08! - http://edtechtalk.com/li…
ok, i figured it out, i was not logged into twitter with the right userid…
new post: Podcast interviews with Oklahoma elected officials on NCLB - http://twurl.nl/ijshdv
oops, I didn’t mean to post that link in the k12online twitter channel… any ideas how to delete it? I don’t see that option available…
new post: Step up and help classroom teachers with DonorsChoose! - http://twurl.nl/fzctr2
new post: Join in Live K12Online08 Conversations Thursday and Saturday! - http://twurl.nl/obhr5m
new post: How much free space should I leave on my iPhone? - http://twurl.nl/4sq0ib
@jdwilliams Just how cold does it get in Arizona where you live in the winter?
At Baskin Robbins with the kids after church - cold night for ice cream! First night this fall we could have a fire in the fireplace…
new post: Ohio, Oregon and New Zealand in February 2009 - http://twurl.nl/1qwmxc
@BethStill You are welcome, Beth! Primary Access is a great tool and project.
new post: Getting Started with Oral History Interviews - http://twurl.nl/h6kfxp
new post: Research-based suggestions for the digital storytelling process - http://twurl.nl/vmct5r
new post: Professional development submission requests integrated in K12Online08 blog - http://twurl.nl/ld5bvb
new post: U.S. Citizens: Contact your elected officials about Change Congress - http://tinyurl.com/6ryko7
new post: Saturday morning in a 1 to 1 household - http://twurl.nl/bsvtyj
new post: Chris Lehman on School Change at Ignite Philly - http://twurl.nl/7u624s
new post: Combining RSS feeds with Yahoo Pipes - http://twurl.nl/2n4jbd
@lkolb @drezac the presentation citation was for your blog and book Liz. And that I learned about http://www.geograffiti.c… from you!
new post: Images and Experiences from TechCon 2008 near Chicago today - http://twurl.nl/v5xnaf
@suewaters Yes, certainly. Sue Lister is setting up the feeds I think, last I read from @dkuropatwa - I will check for you
@klmontgomery It was great! Very fun but tiring day. Wish I could do that at least once per month!
50 photos from TechCon08 today and my journey to and from are uploaded, titled and tagged! http://tinyurl.com/6oa8ra
Just noticed I turned 180,000 miles on Thursday enroute to the airport. I love Toyotas!
@klmontgomery thanks for the alert on Flickr’s facelift!
@cheryloakes50 Cheryl can get me invited to present at ACTEM next year?I would love to come to Maine and meet all the seedlings in person!
Just touched down in OKC. Is the rising moon amazing tonight over North America or what?!
@bengrey great to meet you too Ben. I agree the conference was a lot of fun today!
so are http://www.polleverywher… and http://www.textmarks.com from the same company or group of innovators? Both SMS to 41411.
(sharing 3G cell phone network bandwidth)
Today was a day of several firsts - BYOB (bandwidth) and I shared it with folks in each session - my MacBook shared the connectivity great!
3G connectivity in the Chicago area today was VERY poor at the Midway airport. It was great in Naperville at the TechCon08 conference
hey @klmontgomery - I’m in St Louis! But just in the airport. Our flight is enroute to OKC and I’m not getting off - but I thot I’d say hi!
The dream is alive. Just bought 2 lbs of cheesecorn from Nuts on Clark in the airport. Best cheesecorn on the planet!
36+ pages of backchannel chat today at TechCon08. 14 participant reflections shared via Gabcast. http://handouts.wesfryer…
Boy I am glad not to be driving in this Chicago traffic! Almost to Chicago Midway.
@djakes Thanks Dave. It was good to see you today, albeit briefly. Great session. And thanks for the speakers, they were a lifesaver!
@shupester well it is always good to be overprepared. :-)
Just checked in for my flight from the taxi enroute from Naperville, Illinois and TechCon to Chicago Midway Airport. Today was long but good
Shoot. I forgot to check in online for my Southwest flight back to Oklahoma City this evening. Boarding group C. Oh well.
@djakes I forgot to give you your bear hug today from @dkuropatwa - if you come back to TechCon today I’ll hug you :-)
Now in @cchausis session “How Web 2.0 Tools Impact Learning, and the Capacity to Learn” at TechCon08
from @djakes: look at Thomas Gusky’s book on evaluating professional development
I prepared too many slides today. I got through 83 of 123. That is fine, I didn’t need to share them all. I overprepared.
In @djakes session at TechCon - in the Chatzy backchannel room - an administrator is challenging Dave on the legal restrictions on web 2.0
new post: TechCon 2008 GabCast Channel and Chatzy Room - http://twurl.nl/mly2kw
new k12online08post: Let the content be free! (following CC terms) - http://twurl.nl/26g24t
live video streaming from a non-PDA or smartphone with Qik. Warning. Not everyone using this is CIPA complaint. http://qik.com
checking out mobile web tool Finch http://finch.ploogy.net/ thanks to @lkolb
@drezac I’ll see you tomorrow then! Please come up and say hello! :-)
@bengrey great to meet you as well Ben! I had a great time too - very fun to add the backchannel element. Thanks for all your contributions.
@john_larkin what is prompting the return to grammar instruction down under?
K12Online08 first fireside chat with Dr Stephen Heppell starts in 30 minutes! http://k12onlineconferen…
@paulrwood I was here in April with my wife after a conference in Holland, Michigan and we did have some GREAT Chicago food then…
@paulrwood I wish I could Paul! Unfortunately I am pretty beat so I may call it an early night before the conference tomorrow.
@jchambers Thanks for letting me know. We are going to be posting everything to William and Mary’s server next week including the precon
@cyndidannerkuhn Sorry email is bouncing - try wesfryer [at] pobox [dot] com
that should have been “hardwire” internet rather than “hardware.” As opposed to wifi.
In chicago, online in the hotel, hardware internet. Fireside chat starts in 35 min for K12online08!
on the ground in Chicago. Clouds and trees were beautiful on the descent. Lake Michigan is so big! :-)
Getting on my flight to Chicago for TechCon.
new post: iTunes Installation Guide and Implications of the 4th Screen - http://twurl.nl/ddh3l4
@courosa congrats on reaching those milestones! Hugging kids sounds like a great way to celebrate! :-)
7th evening of teaching adult tech-related classes @church this fall. Just 3 more left. I prepared an 11 page handout that was well received
Thanks to Pam Merrill for the previous quotation - http://tinyurl.com/48wzpu
quotation for today from Nelson Mandela: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
My paperback copy of “Tough Choices or Tough Times” arrived from Amazon today. That was fast. I’m starting it this evening…
new post: Lunch with Clay Shirkey and Alan Kay - http://twurl.nl/26jkon
Everything is all connected and setup for our OI videoconference which starts at 3:30. Didn’t get the packetshaper config changed tho. :-(
@alexragone right, that’s the link that had the typo and I fixed. It should read 11 PM GMT now.
Fireside chat Thursday is 11 pm GMT not 1 pm - http://k12onlineconferen…
Date and time for the first k12online08 fireside chat with Dr Heppell is set for Thursday 11 pm GMT - http://k12onlineconferen…
Started listening to the latest Seedlings webcast from last week with Liz Kolb about cell phones for learning - GREAT http://twurl.nl/pswm8z
@sujokat Links for the K12Online08 pre-con keynote is http://k12onlineconferen…
link for the pre-con keynote is http://k12onlineconferen…
fixed the k12online08 post for Heppell’s keynote so it shows up as “latest post,” this was a category issue for our Wordpress theme
@betchaboy I’m not sure why our WP template is not showing heppell’s keynote as the latest post— it is there on the homepage as featured…
It Simply Isn’t the 20th Century Any More Is It?: So Why Would We Teach as Though It Was? by Stephen Heppell -http://twurl.nl/rcslko
Good morning - K12Online08 pre-con by Stephen Heppell goes live in 2 minutes!
new k12online post: Presentation publishing procedure changes for 2008 - http://twurl.nl/eb35xz
just finished a k12online08 conveners meeting - preconference keynote is all set to go (thanks @dkuropatwa ) at 12 pm GMT tomorrow
Captcha.net plugin seems to be working again… not sure what happened or was going on…
Is the http://www.captcha.net/ site not functional? I had to de-activate the WP plugin to make my blog comments work…
new post: Visualizing field trip school visitors with Google Maps - http://twurl.nl/lryxhm
Another day, another amazing lunch at Boulevard Cafeteria. Life is good.
@Pettsvaldo The fireside chat with Prof Heppell is pending, info will be updated on http://tinyurl.com/4zn3z3
@crafty184 your last tweet tone was a bit hostile and accusatory, my friend! Rest assured accessibility remains a top priority for k12online
@crafty184 per the previous post we anticipate having the pre-con keynote up on W&M by the end of the week
@crafty184 we are not using blip b/c it gives stats. We get server stats from William and Mary. Blip is providing intermediate transcoding
@crafty184 The post giving this background is on http://k12onlineconferen…
@crafty184 Please read the full post Chris - We are just using blip now for the precon b/c sheryl is in NZ - all will be posted to W&M
@sheilat that COSN video “Learning to Change-Changing to Learn” which includes Stephen Heppell is on YouTube: http://tinyurl.com/42rjx4
@sheilat that phrase certainly is arresting and attention-getting for educators. I heard Stephen Heppell use that in a COSN video earlier
@bjmcdonald the CAST Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Book Builder will do text to speech via FireFox plugin http://bookbuilder.cast….
@bjmcdonald see the post Converting text to and from speech for accessibility and convenience - http://tinyurl.com/4jrw7c
new post: A 2nd grade classroom podcast! - http://twurl.nl/rn8kws
new post: NowPublic Citizen Journalism and intellectual property - http://twurl.nl/x5mcnb
@elmofromok Are you a member of the celebrate oklahoma voices learning community yet?
@elmofromok no I haven’t heard of it. What is it?
@ssandifer excellent, thanks for the heads-up tweet, I will look for the email
@elmofromok We went to Tres Suenos vineyard, 6 miles north of Luther - http://www.tressuenos.co…
@elmofromok very cool, thanks. I had not heard of this. We need Tulsa Okies to post tech events to http://lc.celebrateoklah…
@cbearsolutions I read about the report on some blogs last December when it came out, and our OK Creativity Project Educ Comm is reading it
@elmofromok who sponsored the event? Were any presos webcast or recorded for podcasts?
Had a great afternoon exploring west of Edmond to Luther. Gorgeous day. Visited a vineyard. Shopping now for supper! No mowing today!
@bcdtech google temple university media education lab. Best media literacy curriculum I have seen.
I got that reversed “Tough Choices or Tough Times.”
I’m ordering a paper copy of “Tough Times or Tough Choices.” Wish I could order a full ebook version. http://www.skillscommiss…
@dabigleap yes well, @klmontgomery ‘s last tweet seemed to invite some Zen-speak. I haven’t read a good Koan in a long time actually!
@MikeGras excellent. even if you post infrequently I think it will be valuable. consider a team blog. 120 characters is often too limiting!
@head_geek that is our plan today too! Hopefully my last time to mow for the year.
It is another rare to find Krispy Kreme morning! Yum! Carbs taste do good when they are consumer so rarely!
@klmontgomery I find my greatest inspiration from the koans of my Twitter network friends. They help me become “the grasshopper.”
@dancallahan I’m not expecting a $350 laptop from Apple either. But I do think we’ll see the pricepoint drop.
@MikeGras Interesting. If you blog that longer story at some point please tweet me the link. I’d like to hear the full tale.
new post: Chinesepod and Connectivism: More connections lead to more learning - http://twurl.nl/rdirs0
getting distracted from prepping my keynote by facebook. gosh that is so easy to do…
@MikeGras Hate is a very strong word. Why so much animosity there?
@knowclue Yeah, I really don’t like the new iMovie compared to the old timeline version. But Win MovieMaker? I REALLY don’t like using it…
@ronhoutman wow, that’s a HUGE battery life difference. Thanks for sharing. I’m glad to see Dell selling Ubuntu preinstalled tho. A start.
new learning signs post: Sisters perform (dance) at football halftime - http://twurl.nl/2f6lgo
Checking out the Dell Inspiron Mini 9. $350. Wow. How will Apple respond next week on Tuesday? http://tinyurl.com/6mpeqy
working on my keynote for TechCon in Chicago next Friday http://events.iasbo.org/…
@@klmontgomery …a regular part of our day, when we reflect and process learning - this is the evaluation step we often skip b/c of time
@klmontgomery Please don’t feel bad about posting. I do think, however, sharing our learning journeys can become a more seamless process…
@budtheteacher In my book anecdotes from the trenches certainly DO count! I’d like to see some academic research statistics too tho.
If you get a chance to see Applalousa, don’t. Ed Harris should have hired more talented writers. Poor character development. No heart.
@spbivona late replies are welcome in our asynchronous landscape! I want to know stats for alternative cert teacher retention…
“Welcome to the Jungle” is a song that apparently will never go out of style at football games…
@tonyvincent time to restart!
@joelz is there a federal level of teacher certification?
@wjohnsen I saw $2.75 on Sunday here in Oklahoma City
@joelz states certify teachers here in the US
@joelz yes. High numbers of alternatively certified teachers are contentious in some circles.
new post: Help needed with Packeteer and Videoconferencing - http://twurl.nl/2y3nja
new post: Connecting our world and our generational responsibility to do better - http://twurl.nl/207hy8
@n2teaching that tweet exchange about royalties at football games pertained to music played over the loudspeakers, not band songs. :-)
new post: The practical car of the future today: Natural gas AND gasoline powered! - http://twurl.nl/ggoz5x
@dancallahan wow, thanks for that info and link. I’d always wondered. http://www.ascap.com/lic…
@WillyB I wonder if royalties are being paid to those musical artists every time their song is played at a football game?
Attending our first Edmond Memorial Bulldogs football game. Our girls are cheering at halftime!
Attending our first
Wow. Alternative certification is much hotter of a political potato than I ever imagined.
“It is not productive to get high tech answers to the wrong questions.” (Jean Hendrickson - Oklahoma A+ Schools)
we are discussing “Tough Times, Tough Choices” and what the Creativity Project’s statement of support and emphasis will be
I’m attending my 2nd Oklahoma Creativity Project Education committee meeting, this time at the Kirkpatrick Foundation building
@mahlness that is great Mark! Good luck to you for NECC as well!
new post: NECC 2009 proposals are in! - http://twurl.nl/dlzj8p
discussing the implications of the 4th screen video for learning http://tinyurl.com/3dd657
(one of her granddads I should have said)
my daughter is going to be thrilled that one of her grandparents and one of her grandmothers (Nana to be exact) commented on her VoiceThread
Good to see the NOTk12online site has been moved over to its domain - http://notk12onlineconfe…
I’m at my church preparing for my first of 5 class sessions on “Lifelong Learning with iTunes University.” The magic show continues…
finishing up a meeting with Oklahoma Dept of Libraries, OK State Dept of Education Library Division, discussing LOC primary research project
new post: Oklahoma 2008 Veteran’s Day Videoconference - http://twurl.nl/6t83zf
new post: Mobile phone counseling for teachers from My Mobile Guru - http://twurl.nl/nvjxxp
I do not vouch for or necessarily endorse the aforementioned site - I heard about it today on WTP 211 - http://tinyurl.com/4kcdyv
feeling low today and need some free therapy via you mobile phone? Perhaps “my mobile guru” is just what you need? http://tinyurl.com/4x3az2
new post: What Common Sense Media didn’t tell parents about WikiPedia but should have - http://twurl.nl/785c8x
@gardenglen sounds like a good assignment. conversations open the door to real learning in so many cases.
@coachburk indeed. :-)
@gcpodcast where are you publicly posting these great geocaching pics people are submitting?
new post: A worthless worksheet and a voluntary VoiceThread - http://twurl.nl/stgl6x
@plivings @klmontgomery @amichetti Agreed. As an educator it is not advisable to be virtually affiliated with profane social media users.