Whoa. I totally blitzed our WordPress install this morning.
I will be slowly restoring over the next two days. Excuse the mess.
That is all…
UPDATE @ 1:53pm MDT: Okay… I have learned a lot about this cool theme framework we have adopted, but, it is much too much in light of my other tasks for today and this week, so, I installed version 2 of the theme framework for now. 
Good enough, right?
I registered today with ISTE in Denver. Doing it on Saturday makes this a largely painless process.
As usual, I received my usual goodie bag full of whatnot: the standard conference tote bag, an actually decent laptop sleeve (note to ISTE… best branded giveaway ever… nice work) and a handful of fairly useless propaganda from vendors.
Mike and I are kickin’ it in Denver this week for ISTE 2010. We will be blogging and tweeting all week here but I wanted to share a brief experience that I believe is a model of how a company keeps it customers.
Elluminate Live Stream: http://tinyurl/cr20live
Description: Quick 2 minutes previews of some cool Web 2.0 Tool
Facilitator(s): Steve Hargadon, anyone else!
Storybird.com – Social Tool to create digital book (flash based)
goofram.com – Like google. Combines information with wolfram calculated results
qrcode.kaywa.com – Barcode generator
mashpedia.com – Real time, multimedia, social encyclopedia
paper.li – create newspaper based around a twitter tag
Web plugins
shareaholic – adds button to browser to share out information
instapaper – makes paper article out of web content
readability – makes reading on the web easier
yolinkeducation – shows you what is behind links
read it later – save links to view later
Applications
jumpcut – saves multiple “cuts” to paste many things at once
text expander – shorten phrase expands to designated text
sweetsearch.com – only searches credible research sites
express.smarttech.com – Smart notebook software on the web
longurl.com – find out what the long url is for a shortened url
edmodo.com – empowering teachers to use online resources
let them sing it for you – type in words, it sings back for you
bingle.nu – bing and google results side by side
google squared – compare and contrast topic
Conversation started around the specs of the iPad, which were mostly positive. Shifted to the continuous battle between ed tech and tech support staff. What is obvious is that rules and regs are drastically different everywhere.
Back to iPad:
How would you use it with students today?
Reading
Differentiated Instruction with reading with animations and highlighted text
Apps:
Paperdesk
ithoughts
stick it
blog press
pocket universe
tap 2 talk
netgeo
memoves
simple note
ed modo
animation HD
Dragon Dictation
Sonic Pics
To Find:
Pound Ed App
This is an interesting discussion, but I have to add the question: why are we still talking about getting permission of administrators and parents to use blogging with out students? Now that blogging is nearing the decade mark, why do we think of this technology as so outside?
Just a thought…
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
Location:8th St,Denver,United States
Thoughts:
Comments 4 kids tag on Twitter is a great way to get involvement from the global group.
Mix of platforms seem to work for people
Report a comment plug-in for word press is working for self monitoring
USB.ac.th Great example of school wide blog
Approaching blogging as an educational experience, not asking permission
Student access is still an issue in many places
Facebook and Red.it has been a successful tool for some to improve their footprint on the web.
Side note: The ratio of macs to pcs is 90% to 10%
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Location:Welton St,Denver,United States
After a number of problems getting here, Mike and I are at ITSE 2010! Sadly, our bargain hotel failed in providing me power to charge up my trusty MacBook, so I will be live blogging via the iPad 3G.
This really my first attempt to do any extensive writing via the iPadq, so excuse any spelling errors or typos.
…although, who am I kidding? I have those blogging on the MacBook, too…
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
Location:8th St,Denver,United States
Jason and I are attending the edublog unconference on our first day in Denver. We will both be live blogging through whole iste 2010 week.
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
Location:Welton St,Denver,United States
Greetings from my iPad, which is becoming a device that I am grabbing much more than my MacBook for a wide variety of tasks.
I am still with those that believe that this is more of a consumption device than one useful for creation, despite the fact that I can easily blog or draw on this device. I traveled on a brief four-day vacation this past weekend to a major city that had very decent 3G coverage and found my iPad was the perfect device for keeping an eye on my interests (small business, financial, work and otherwise) and looking up travel information without digging out my laptop. In fact, with the exception of a day where I did need to attend a web-based meeting with a vendor, I didn’t take advantage of free wifi or feel the need to purchase wifi service.
I did try something today that changes this device for me a bit… I took the sleek, minimalistic Apple Bluetooth keyboard from my iMac and paired it with the iPad to use instead of the virtual screen keyboard and wow… it makes a huge difference.
I am still very comfortable emailing even longer messages using the virtual keyboard and I have blogged a couple of times using the screen, but I can type quite well using this keyboard.
Would I carry the keyboard with me? No… I am better off with the laptop, but, for a lot of reasons, having access to this makes a lot of sense.
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