Podcast with Tim Holt

On the way home from the New Mexico Technology in Education Conference (NMTIE) last week, I stopped in El Paso, Texas to say hello to Tim Holt. Tim is the Director of Instructional Services in the Technology & Information Systems department of the El Paso Independent School District and blogs about educational technology at Byte Speed. He recorded part of our conversation and created a podcast the next day. I really admire people who get things done quickly!

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Blogs Provide Raw Details of Disaster (NYT)

This New York Times piece says that blogs were “hard to beat” when it came to detailed on scene coverage of the awful tsunami disaster, and I have to agree. I spent an hour following links to first hand accounts and all sorts of images and video this morning. It’s amazing to me how little I even think about newspaper or television news any more…scary in fact. And this Tsunami Help Weblog that was cobbled together to keep track of the coverage is a pretty amazing thing all by itself.

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Voki! A fun way to introduce yourself

Now that I am a part of many social networking groups, blogs, wikis and forums, I find myself having to introduce myself over, and over and over again. I thought there has to be a better, more interesting way to do this. I was cruising one of my social networking groups (classroom 2.0) and I saw this cool widget-like graphic on a friend’s home page. This interactive graphic is called Voki. Voki enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. You can customize your Voki to look like you or take on the identity of lots of other types of characters… animals, monsters, anime etc. I chose anime, I always wanted to know what I would look like as a cartoon

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Using Social Technologies to Redefine Schooling-the Podcast

So one of the reasons I’ve had no time to blog of late (or read for that matter) is that life is getting crazed once again. Seven weeks off goes much too quickly, but I’ve gotten into some very cool projects that I hope to blog about in short order.

Meanwhile, in case any one is interested, here is the link to the presentation that Rob Mancabelli and I did at FETC on Friday. I’d be really interested in any reaction from those of you that might listen and watch (sort of) it.

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