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Category Archives: Literacy

Google Docs Storyboard template

27-Aug-10

Wanted to see how this looks embedded. It’s a storyboard template that I designed in Google Docs. I chose Google Docs for it because of Google Doc’s collaboration feature, which has become *really amazing* — if you haven’t tried collaborating on Google Docs lately (it used to sorta suck), you should try it now!

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Xtranormal LMS vs. PLE

26-Aug-10

This was highlighted on Stephen’s Web the other day, and I thought it was two things: 1) a cool use of Xtranormal; and 2) a nice discussion of the differences between a Learning Management System (like D2L), and a Personal Learning Environment. Here it is: The oddly-compelling thing, for me, about Xtranormal is its weird [...]

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GLS-ES Digital Storytelling Workshop

12-Jun-10

Chris Blakesley and I are running a 2-hour Digital Storytelling workshop this afternoon at the GLS-Educator Symposium. If all goes well with my new Google Docs WordPress plugin, a Google Document with resources and examples should show up below… if not, it’s here. I’ll keep it editable by everyone in the world until it gets spammed.

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Collins GLS keynote

11-Jun-10

For those of you who werent able to get to this mornings keynote by Alan Collins, here are most of his slides (in text form, and can I just say that I type waaay faster on the iPad than I do on a laptop because of Apples super-smart autocorrect. Thanks Apple!) (though I wish I [...]

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Let’s Change Education

12-May-10

I’ve been trying to say this for a number of years. Here’s another shot at expressing my message, using a “start with the Why?” approach. Why. I want to change formal education from an institution primarily built around the administration and tracking of students, to one built around the personal and unique interests of each [...]

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Mobile Learning

21-Apr-10

Yesterday I presented to the University of Wisconsin System’s Learning Technology Development Council on Mobile Learning, and how the university-style of instruction must change to adapt to the style of learning that mobile technologies have made common-place. A few key points: With 24/7 access to trusted sources of information in their pockets, students no longer need to [...]

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ELI Mobile #3: iPhone Art (David Hockney)

12-Mar-10

The Twitter feed was gushing (#elifocus) during the EDCUAUSE event on Mobile, and every time a URL flew by, I opened another tab. I’m still sorting through them 2 weeks later. This one struck me because it demonstrates the mobile is not only for consumption. It can be a fantastic tool for student-created content. Use [...]

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What the iPad means

09-Mar-10

Books in the Age of the iPad, by Craig Mod, is perhaps the most beautiful and thoughtful post I’ve read in years. In it, Mod argues that the iPad is a universal container for rich media and what he calls “well-formed content”— I’ll let you read the article (you should) to understand what he means. He [...]

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Bigger, Faster, Easier

26-Feb-10

“Yes, today you can chat with friends, collaborate on projects, read the news, play games, or share videos of your kids, all online. But you could do all that stuff offline before 1991. It’s just much easier and faster now. What’s different—what’s fundamentally different—is the size of your social space, and of course the size of [...]

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Kids these Days

18-Feb-10

(I started this as a reply to John Thomson’s post “Blogging no longer a hit with teens, but quickly realized that it’s less about what kids don’t do —blogging— and more about what they do —social networking.) They don’t email. They don’t tweet. And now they don’t blog? What *do* they do? From the Pew report: 73% of [...]

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