Moving at the Speed of Creativity

This is a guest blog post by Sherman Nicodemus. This is my second post in a series I'm sharing on "Moving at the Speed of Creativity" this week. If you have questions about this post I'll be glad to answer them via comments here. The advent of digital encoding technologies has...

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This is a guest blog post by Sherman Nicodemus. I've agreed to share a series of blog posts here on "Moving at the Speed of Creativity" this week. Hope you find this series helpful! If you have questions about this post I'll be glad to answer them via comments here....

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Thanks to the work of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and, ironically, the successful development of an iPhone application by NASA (bound by the Freedom of Information Act) the secret iPhone Developer agreement is now public. (PDF) EFF summarizes the key highlights of the agreement: Ban on Public Statements [by developers] App Store...

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Hopefully, by the time my 6th grader gets out of high school, his teachers will be using a web-based learning management system (LMS) like Moodle to receive and track student assignments. There are LOTS of reasons a LMS can make life easier for both teachers and students. A big one...

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These are my notes from the March 10, 2010 Oklahoma City Podcasting Club meeting, led by Chad Henderson. Chad's podcast is Elmocast. The OKC Podcasting Club started in January 2010, tonight is the third meeting. It meets the second Wednesday of each month at 6:30 pm at the The Oklahoma...

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Are students in your school allowed to bring their own laptops? Some teachers not only oppose the idea of students working on laptops, they also stage dramatic in-class performances to intimidate students (even at college) from bringing their laptops to class. Hat tip to Berlin Fang for sharing this video. Berlin...

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Thanks to Matt Montagne, I learned about the recently released documentary film, "The Race to Nowhere, The Darkside of America's Achievement Culture." This three minute trailer on YouTube gives an overview of the film's primary themes. We need to stop pressuring our kids to achieve at everything simultaneously, focus on...

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The folks at Penguin books have been doing some imagineering, inspired by the soon-to-be released iPad: The imminent launch of the iPad has galvanized our children's publishing teams to think about how the work they publish can be reinvented for devices where touch and sound and movement can enhance stories and...

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Texting and driving is a big problem with teens as well as adults. According to PEW's November 2009 report, "Teens and Distracted Driving:" One in three (34%) texting teens ages 16-17 say they have texted while driving. That translates into 26% of all American teens ages 16-17. 48% of all teens ages...

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These are my notes from Curtis Bonk's presentation, "Blended Learning Jazz: Spontaneous, Improvisational, and Smooth" at the 2010 Heartland eLearning Conference hosted by the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The Heartland eLearning conference is on Twitter, has a conference blog, and...

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These are my notes from Shay Rahm-Barnett, Mark McCoy, and Elaine Bartgis' presentation "Mystified, Terrified, or Satisfied: Communication as Motivation in Online Classes" at the 2010 Heartland eLearning Conference hosted by the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The Heartland eLearning conference...

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These are my notes from Berlin Fang and Luke Hartman's presentation "Putting Learning In Student Pockets: Mobile Learning at Oklahoma Christian University" at the 2010 Heartland eLearning Conference hosted by the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The Heartland eLearning conference is...

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These are my notes from Unplugging from Kent Brooks' presentation "Unplugging from the Commercial Software Grid: A Strategic Path" at the 2010 Heartland eLearning Conference hosted by the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The Heartland eLearning conference is on Twitter, has...

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These are my notes from Curtis Bonk's opening keynote address, "Nothing 'Flat' World about this Jazz: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education" at the 2010 Heartland eLearning Conference hosted by the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The Heartland eLearning conference is...

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I wrote the following comment today in response to Jeremy Davis' call for input in his post, "Need Preso Help." He wrote: If you had 2 minutes to convince your State Board of Education that library and information literacy standards needed to be passed, what would you say? Please chime in with...

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When the topics of cell phones, social media websites, and digital technologies come up in conversation, I frequently hear adults bemoan teens and and their inability to exert proper digital discipline with these interactive tools. Today's Associated Press article, "Courts Cracking Down on Texting Jurors," highlights the fact that plenty...

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Walter Bender, former president of software and content for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation and founder of Sugar Labs, granted an interview in December 2009 to Wade Roush. Wade's article is titled, "Sugar Gets Sweeter: Former OLPC Exec Walter Bender on Netbooks, E-books, Blueberry, and Cloudberry." Bender gave...

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This morning I'm sharing a 3 hour pre-conference workshop at the Heartland eLearning Conference at UCO in Edmond, Oklahoma, on Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning. This workshop is customized for eLearning specialists and online instructors. To preserve past versions of this workshop, Karen Montgomery and I are archiving those versions...

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Despite numerous experiences which could persuade me otherwise, I remain an ardent idealist who wants to change the world for the better. Nicholas Negroponte and the OLPC project have been two extremely influential inspirations to me in the past few years. The March 2010 issue of "The Rotarian" magazine includes...

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On behalf of our non-profit Story Chasers Inc. I'm pleased to announce the start of the Celebrate Kansas Voices project. (CKV) Celebrate Kansas Voices is a statewide digital storytelling project empowering learners to become digital witnesses, archiving local oral history and sharing that history safely on the global stage of the...

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These are my notes from Bob Lee's session "Remix: Blending Creative Works to Show Mastery of Classroom Content" at the 2010 MACE (Mid-America Association for Computers in Education) Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. MY THOUGHTS AND FEEDBACK ARE IN ALL CAPS. All resoruces are on tinyurl.com/leeremix - bob [dot] lee [usd382...

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These are my notes from Janet Sauber's presentation "Edmodo: a social network that works in the classroom" at the 2010 MACE (Mid-America Association for Computers in Education) Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I am recording this session with audio and may podcast it...

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These are my notes from a book club meeting in Manhattan, Kansas, which focused on "The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers" by Brion McClanahan. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS HERE ARE IN ALL CAPS. Brion observes the textbooks now give topics greater or lesser amounts of importance by the people...

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I created this today using "The Newspaper Clipping Generator." I wish this was true. In case you can't read the above text on this Flickr image, here it is as text: In a move that has stunned technology fear-mongers and edtech vendors statewide, the internet service provider "Two Flowers" has decided to...

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These are my notes from Laura Sadler presentation "Web 2.0 Projects" at the 2010 MACE (Mid-America Association for Computers in Education) Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. All links from this session are available via Glogster. Kim will first talk about our blogging in the...

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These are my notes from Kay Tibb's presentation "Cell Phones R 4 More Than Texting: Let's plan for them, not ban them!" at the 2010 MACE (Mid-America Association for Computers in Education) Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. MY THOUGHTS AND FEEDBACK ARE IN ALL CAPS. Kay is the Technology Director for...

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These are my notes from Jennifer Dorman's presentation "Free Resources from Discovery Education" at the 2010 MACE (Mid-America Association for Computers in Education) Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. MY THOUGHTS AND FEEDBACK ARE IN ALL CAPS. This session was webcasted by Dean Mantz and live-blogged via CoverItLive. Those archives are embedded...

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These are my notes from Janet Wozniak's keynote address, "Think back to the reason you got into education: To change the world" at the 2010 MACE (Mid-America Association for Computers in Education) Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. MY THOUGHTS AND FEEDBACK ARE IN ALL CAPS. Janet works for Apple Computer with...

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Hat tip to Silvia Tolisano for her tweet and post, "Skype in the News," which highlighted Shanthi Venkataraman's recent article for the Columbia News Service, "Skype Gives Students Window On The World." Shanthi is a student from Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism. I am delighted the use of...

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These are my notes from Michael Church's presentation on "Kansas Memory: Real Stories, Real People" at the 2010 MACE (Mid-America Association for Computers in Education) Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. MY THOUGHTS AND FEEDBACK ARE IN ALL CAPS. I am audio recording this with permission from Michael and may later post...

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