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: [...]

I shared the following as a comment today on Kevin Gaugler’s post, “In which the second edition of the textbook might be an app.” Kevin wrote:
Before Apple’s big announcement today, I made a prediction that Apple’s device would disrupt the textbook industry and consequently education, particularly language education, as we know it. Apple has built [...]

I am impressed with the ability of the iPhone / iPod Touch application Instapaper Free to create offline, mobile-friendly versions of any webpage. The following five minute screencast demonstrates how you can do this on an iPhone or iPod Touch. You’ll want to download the Instapaper Free application first and create a free Instapaper account.

I [...]

I’ve used PollEverywhere the past two weeks to take class attendance in my Technology 4 Teachers course at the University of Central Oklahoma. The first week I had everyone submit their name with a cell phone as a SMS message at the start of each class.

I opened the poll at the start of class, and [...]

This past fall when discussing 1:1 computing options at an educational technology conference, I asked an Apple rep the reasons schools should choose Macbooks over netbooks at this point. The person’s three part response was:

Netbooks have weak batteries that won’t last more than two hours.
Netbooks are flimsy / not rugged and won’t stand up to [...]

I posted the following as a reply to Ken Royal’s post, “Digital Readers Make Education Sense” today:
Ken: Why would you advocate that teachers get simple eReaders for students, when full-fledged Netbooks can be obtained which are less expensive and do so much more? The Ubuntu software installation image by Open 1:1 has over 100 applications [...]

These are my notes from the presentation “Transforming Classroom Practice with 1:1″ by Jenny Wojick, Andy Marks, Janet Parkerson, Virginia Glass and Kelly Goldberg at the One to One Institute’s conference on November 10, 2009 conference in Chicago, Illinois. All are educators in Roundout School District #72, in Lake Forest, Illinois. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN [...]

Sylvia Martinez is spot on in her post today, “Students are not the enemy.” Shame on the vendor and vendor representative, Sophos and Chris Ridgway, for sharing an upcoming session at NYSCATE (The New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education) conference titled, “The Enemy Within: Stop Students from Bypassing Your Web Filters.” [...]

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.)

I posted twice on the NECC 2009 ISTEconnects blog today:

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Student Voices about technology and creating the future

Don’t miss either of the videos discussed in the latter post, “Learning to Change, Changing to Learn – Kid’s Tech.”

…and…
“No Future Left Behind.”

Hat tip to Tammy Stephens for the first COSN/Pearson video link. Hat tip to [...]