Imagine this: Take a dozen or so people who spend much of the personal and professional life immersed in technology put them together for three days and guess what they’d spend most of the time talking about. If you said technology or computers you’d be wrong. BLC featured 600 educators from around the globe focusing on learning. That’s what the...

After my post about easypost, I received this pleasant surprise in the mail: Thanks Willem 

Thanks Wes for guest blogging. As usual, your prolific blogging is something I can match but nice to have you showcase your talents. I’ve been traveling for the past week and am now in Boston at the BLC conference. (I”m actually in Will Richardson’s session as I type). I’ve got some things I should write about and don’t want to lose...

As usually happens when I’m teaching others about a topic, this evening when I was sharing some tips about using the Macintosh operating system and Mac programs I learned a valuable tip: How to record audio and simultaneously take notes using Microsoft Word. I’d heard of this capability but never seen it demoed, and it wasn’t hard to do. We had to...

I had the delight this evening of participating with Dean Shareski, David Jakes, and students in a course Dean is teaching via an Elluminate Live session to discuss Digital Storytelling. Dean shared the following quotation from Joe Lambert, who is a co-founder of the Center for Digital Storytelling: Digital storytelling begins with the notion that in the not [too]...