Yesterday I set up a web cam and Skyped for the first time with a journalism class in Indiana. It was so much fun. My class watched the videotaping on the big screen via projector. They sang happy birthday to Tyra, an Evansville, Indiana, student, who was wearing a crown and a birthday sash. They [...]
Entries from October 2009
Skype for beginners
October 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
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Permanent beta mode
October 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments
I added this sign to the front of my classroom this year. So far, one kid has asked about it, about what it means to be in permanent beta mode. I got the term from bloggers, I guess. They encourage new businesses to be constantly testing and responding to mistakes, especially on the web. The [...]
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Okay, two minutes
October 14th, 2009 · No Comments
I’ve uploaded the video to Youtube. I couldn’t get it down to one minute but I’m happy with the result. I think it packs a lot of energy and shows the breadth of the program I’ve started at my high school.
I titled the video: “We Don’t Use Paper for This.”
Enjoy!
(Not sure why I can’t [...]
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Boiling it down to one minute
October 11th, 2009 · No Comments
I’ve been given the opportunity to present what we do with web 2.0 technology in journalism class at a conference at MIT titled Media Literacy and 21st Century Skills.
I’ll be leaving a week from Friday for Boston and have been asked to boil down what we do at our school news site to a one-minute [...]
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