This is a quick announcement just to ask you to Save the Date for the next iThemes Bootcamp tentatively scheduled for April 23-24 in Oklahoma City.
We are working on details right now, but in the meantime, we wanted to give you some dates to prepare for.
We’ve decided to host the next iThemes Bootcamp in Oklahoma [...]

On Wednesday, February 17, 2010, the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus visited Yukon Public Schools in Oklahoma. This podcast features a seven minute interview with Ryan L’Esperance, an audio engineer who works and lives on the tour bus ten months of the year. According to the official website of the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus: [...]

On the first day of class this semester in “Technology 4 Teachers” at the University of Central Oklahoma, I shared the following fifteen minute / nineteen slide presentation with my students on the topic, “Things I Want To Model As Your Teacher.” I’ve shared this as a synchronized Slidecast on SlideShare.
Things I Want To Model [...]

This spring I’ll be teaching two sections of the required “Technology for Teachers” (T4T) course at the University of Central Oklahoma here in Edmond. I’ve been working on my ideas for this course for quite awhile, and finally drafted my course overview this evening. I’ll be building out this entire course over the holidays in [...]

In the past couple of years, have you noticed how many fast food chain restaurants have undergone a complete facelift? This is a photograph, taken with the Pano application on my iPhone, of our Oklahoma City KFC restaurant on 23rd street. Wow! What a change from the “typical” fast food restaurant!

The physical environment has been [...]

These are my notes from the Oklahoma City Wordpress User’s Group meeting on August 31, 2009. This was my first meeting to attend of this group. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS.
David North
- I like Wordpress because I can finally say “yes” to friends and colleagues who say “I’d like to have a [...]

Kudos to students and educators from Howe, Oklahoma for being featured this week on “George Washington Wired” for their live broadcast last Saturday from Mount Vernon!
(Mobile blogged with Wordpress for iPhone in line for tickets at the Washington Monument.)

Last week Sherri Pankhurst from Cordell Public Schools was the lead facilitator for a Celebrate Oklahoma Voices workshop in Stratford, Oklahoma. These are some of the best videos created during the 2.5 day workshop by Stratford educators which Sherri has “featured” this week on our COV learning community.
As a lover of western heritage and the [...]

The ability to create multiple login accounts on current operating systems like Mac OS X is great. This not only allows family members to have their own “custom” desktops and bookmarks/favorites, it also permits young users to start learning about password security early.

This many seem like a trivial thing, but it really isn’t. The importance [...]

Yesterday driving back to Oklahoma from a short stay in Kansas with my parents, I listened to a podcast recording of Dr. Margaret Beale Spencer’s lecture from February 23rd at the University of Virginia. The title of her lecture was, “The 1954 Brown Decision and Contemporary Education Challenges and Opportunities.” The U.Va. podcast channel is [...]