A Vision of Students Today

Oct 13

Bud alerted me to this via twitter, Almost a new take on Did you Know but it’s actually another video from Michael Wesch of Kansas State who produced The Machine is Using Us. Don’t dismiss this because it’s focused on higher ed. The message is pretty much the same. Powerful. Powered by...

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Podcast 32….Talking Classroom Design with Clarence Fisher

Oct 11

Podcast 32….Talking Classroom Design with Clarence Fisher

Second of three interviews I did for the K12 Online Presentation on Design. This time my good friend Clarence shares his ideas on classroom design. [tags]design,k12online07,clarencefisher,classroomdesign[/tags] Listen...

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Podcast 31….Talking School Design with Christian Long

Oct 09

Podcast 31….Talking School Design with Christian Long

This is part of my K12 presentation. This is the 30 minute interview with Christian Long and his thoughts on school design. (I said his blog was called thinkpad….it’s thinklab. I knew that I just misspoke) I only used a couple of minutes for the presentation but if you’d like to hear Christian’s thoughts on school design, you’ll enjoy...

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Origins of Google

Oct 08

I always like the question on the Did You Know video that asks, “to whom were these questions (the 2.7 billion searches per month) asked Before Google?” Turns out Google has been answering our questions for at least 200 years. Powered by...

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Interactive, Simplistic Design

Oct 08

Interactive, Simplistic Design

Cathy Nelson alerted me to this site via twitter and being that I’ve been immersed in my K12 presentation on design, I  began to consider why this works. As Cathy alludes to, it’s very familiar format. Reminds me of a combination of the Apple ads and Lee LeFever’s plain English explanation videos of web 2.0 tools and concepts. There are...

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