Thanks to my friend Ewan McIntosh for his posting on Tag Galaxy. Tag Galaxy is…well, just too cool. It’s essentially a tag browser that pulls public Flickr photos by tags, organizes similar tags around them in space, or lets ou view sets of the pictures in a cool interactive globe. You’ve just got to see […]
Continue reading →This is, admittedly, one of the best web discoveries I’ve made. VBS.tv is not your average cable channel. Out of the plethora of content, the documentaries are some of the best I’ve seen. If only PBS could get away with this. I just watched the 5 episodes (~4 minutes each) of El Dorado, Venezuela, and […]
Continue reading →The Chickasaw Nation has gifted the state of Oklahoma with a very classy site to discover all things Oklahoma. OklaTravelNet.com is a nice example to creating a fun and interactive website. It’s a nice example of what Macromedia Flash can do. It’s worth checking out.
Continue reading →Last Wednesday, I was asked to give the Keynote speech at the Oklahoma Technology Association lunch during the Encyclomedia conference in Oklahoma City. It was a chance to introduce some emerging ideas I’ve had for educational reform. Of course, 40 minutes was barely enough time to scratch the surface and bring the activities of the […]
Continue reading →Time magazine’s cover article, Failing Our Geniuses, points to a tragedy of NCLB legislation: the massacre of gifted and talented programs that has caused the brightest students to be left behind. But I’m not completely at ease with the author’s solutions. In the short-sighted effort to bring low achievers up to par with other students, […]
Continue reading →I’ve been reviewing the Ybarra et. al. paper and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s summary report, Online Victimization of Youth Five Years Later, on the second Youth Internet Safety Survey. The findings have been covered extensively elsewhere by now, but there are a few interesting points I want to bring up. First […]
Continue reading →Another great classroom tool shared by Wesley Fryer. VoiceThread is a new web2.0 tool that allows voice annotation of photos in a digital slideshow. The designers have made it very classroom-friendly and feature that aspect on the website, including instructions for downloading and printing. Here’s what I really like about it: It’s kid classroom friendly. […]
Continue reading →Today I began enforcing the following lexicon in my daughter’s knowledge base: “Online Advertisement”. Here’s my strategy: Whenever she is online (she’s on Webkinz today), I ask her to point out the advertisements. If she misses any, I tell her the ones I see and how I recognize them as advertisements. We start out simple […]
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