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Very sketchy initial reactions: the Kindle Fire

My Kindle Fire showed up today, and just in time.  I am taking a long weekend this weekend and am excited to have this little media-consumer up and running.  I’ll construct a full-blown review after a few days with the device, but here are my initial reactions. First, it is definitely a small form factor

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#VSS11 #vssWRJs6 Session Notes: “Soar Through Summer: Six Steps to Creating a Successful Online Summer School”

My sessions have been a little random; I actually took over a session yesterday when a presenter didn’t show up.   Others were valuable discussions, but, awful for sharing session notes. So, I am trying to get back on track.  :) I am sitting in “Soar Through Summer: Six Steps to Creating a Successful Online

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#VSS11 Session Notes: Easy as 1, 2, 3: A primer on using Open Education Resources to create lessons, activities, and courses”

I am at “Easy as 1, 2, 3: A primer on using Open Education Resources to create lessons, activities, and courses,” my first session at the Virtual School Symposium 2011 in Indianapolis.  The session features Dr. David Wiley (oops… didn’t show) and the staff of the Open High School of Utah.  My comments are in

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Georgia Virtual School shares full digital units for free online

The Georgia Virtual School, a statewide virtual school, has started a process of sharing out course units to the open Internet for use by others. The objects are created in SoftChalk, one of my preferred tools for creating course objects that are universal to learning and content management systems. Although I have only initially looked

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At #VSS2011 this week with dreams of live blogging… :)

Published on November 9, 2011 by in vss

I am at the Virtual Schooling Symposium 2011 in lovely Indianapolis, Indiana.  Although it is easy to send snarky comments about vendors in Twitter (@techsavvyteach), I will be live blogging interesting sessions here.  Yay!

 
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