Many of you have heard me singing the praises of the Flip video camera. I had one of the original ones and really loved it…never had a problem. So, for the holidays, I got a new Flip Ultra. This is
Webquests for March Madness
We have created three webquests for the March Madness NCAA Tournament. These are available as offline versions using Plucker, so you can use them on handhelds that don’t have Internet access. They are also available as regular web versions.
Cheap + Mobile = Access
I did a hands-on session this week on my new favorite topic, Open Educational Resources, that was really well received. (I’ll be presenting this at NCCE in Seattle on Feb. 28 and at CUE in Palm Springs on March 7
Free, open online course – Mobile Multimedia
Here is another free, open, wiki-based, online professional development course: Mobile Multimedia: Podcasts, Mini-Movies, and More on Handhelds. This one covers finding, using, and creating multimedia resources for differentiating instruction with students. In case you missed it, another earlier free,
Black History Month
February is Black History Month. There is a free curriculum unit on African American history available from K12 Handhelds. It includes an interactive ebook, a virtual field trip, and more. Also, my mashup this month features audio from black history,
enVisionMATH – Are we there yet?
At FETC this week, Pearson announced enVisionMATH, a program that purports to merge print-based and digital learning. (Check out the animations flying off the page in the video below. Yeah, right. 🙁 ) With a press release tagline that reads
Come to Seattle!
This weekend NCCE recorded a Skype interview with me about mobile technology and the upcoming conference in Seattle. NCCE is one of my favorite conferences. The conference has a great energy level, and the presenters and the attendees are a
It's the content
There is a lot of resistance to cell phones in schools based on fear of undesirable consequences and the lack of a good reason to have them in a school environment. How much would that change if every child could
A new approach to defining what's important
Yesterday, David Warlick, in writing about Wikia, mused “what if we had a curriculum that was open and inviting to being gamed by the learners — in a good way?” I’ve spent most of the last couple months neck-deep in
New ways to look at content and 1:1
Happy New Year! I haven’t been blogging as much as usual the last month or two because I am up to my ears in a ton of curriculum we’re developing for mobile devices. (THE Journal ran a nice article about