This morning I worked with Grade 5 and 6 students who all have a tablet PC.  I’ve been talking to them about building networks and wanted to demonstrate mine in meaningful, fun, engaging way. So I decided to take them on a tour, using some interactive maps and showed them the power of networks, open API (don’t worry I didn’t actually use that...

In creating the keynote for the Flat Classroom 2007 Project, I utilized chroma keying. Many seemed quite intrigued as to how I did it and although for most videographers, this is not a difficult or complicated task, for those entering into video editing it may seem a bit arduous. It’s not. This video demonstrates how I use chroma keying. As I mention in my...

To illustrate the past 2 hours of my day have a look: 10:00 Began an Elluminate session with Jeff Utecht, his Plymouth State students, mine and Alec Couros 11:00 Clarence Fisher starts a chat session with me using Google Chat about his current visit to Moose Jaw. I invite him to talk to my students in a couple of weeks. 11:15 Session comes to a close as Jeff tells...

The idea of global citizenship is often a nebulous concept which gets bantered around the blogosphere but often lacks clarity or examples that truly define what it means. One of the best examples was this one from earlier this year. Today while reading through my aggregator, I came across this story from Christian Long. (Christian is always a wealth of good stuff)...

In the past 5 days here are three videos impacting the world. The Machine is Us…read Jeff Utecht’s take Brian Crosby’s class….this is what technology is for Franklin Police…to catch a thief If we still think reading and writing are the cornerstones of literacy, you might want to rethink...

Using Skype, I dropped a quick compliment tonight for Jeff Utecht on using his screencast for a workshop I did. What ensued was a lenghthy exchange of ideas and for me a personal tour of the city of Shanghai where Jeff resides. Using Google Earth, he and I shared a little bit about both of our worlds. Early into the tour, I happened upon one of the schools Jeff works...