I'm honored to be providing the pre-conference keynote for the 2010 K12 Online Conference. I've been involved in this conference since its inception in 2006 in various capacities and believe it to be not only a wonderful resource but a great model of sharing and generosity that epitomizes what networked learning can be. While I'm sorting through a few...

We are all aware of the economic challenges that schools face. The truth is, schools have always had limited budgets and been scrutinized for spending decisions. In the wonderful age of accountability, those decisions seem to be under a much bigger microscope and lots of questions get asked.  That's not necessarily a bad thing but it certainly requires us to...

This video has been around for a while and I've used it in various presentations as a powerful illustration of using the web to change lives.      It represents for me a few very valuable lessons. 1. The Web Can Change Lives. The way in which ideas are exchanged and built on top of each other happens every day. Mostly in trivial ways,...

There's an interesting phenomenon that I've been observing as late and that is the visualization of text. By that I mean using words as graphics. I remember back in the 1990's learning to create webpages using Dreamweaver, when we wanted to insure that a particular font was consistent across browsers and individual machines, we had to convert text to...

Yesterday I posted about the video project that ties in with my photo a day. I thought I'd provide a bit of an insight into my work flow mostly to document it for myself but also to see if others might see any way to improve it or simply add their own approach. Photos I use iphoto to organize and edit photos. For the photo a day project, I use the 365/10 tag and...