Jon Udell Talk at University of Mary Washington

Gardner Writes » Blog Archive » Faculty Academy 2006 Podcast: Jon Udell Keynote Address on 21st Century Literacy: About fifteen months after Jerry Slezak introduced me to the wonders of Jon Udell, I was standing before a capacity crowd in Combs 139 introducing Jon as the keynote speaker for Faculty Academy 2006.... Beginning with Teilhard de Chardin and Doug Engelbart, and ending with a stirring challenge to transform higher education into a truly open, outward-facing public resource, Jon provided every bit of the focus, insight, and vision that mark a truly great keynote address.

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Fraser Speirs: Teaching 2.0

Fraser Speirs, the developer of Flickr Export, the great photo exporting tool for iPhoto has recently taken a new position as computing teacher and general IT person at Cedars School of Excellence. He has started a new weblog, Teaching 2.0 , where he discusses his work at the school, focusing on IT and technology integration issues.

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Video Games For Social Change

I just was reading about a conferences sponsored by MTVu looking at games and gaming and asking the question Can Social-Change Video Games Tackle Divorce, Poverty, Genocide?... Examples include Disaffected, which parodies the employment experience of Kinko's worker; Peacemaker, "a one-player game in which the player can choose to take the role of either the Israeli Prime Minister or the Palestinian President."

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Technology Leadership Forum 2006: Road Map to Systemic Change

NECC 2006 Attendees | Program: search result details: Technology Leadership Forum 2006: Road Map to Systemic Change (Hosted by SIGTC and SIGAdmin) [Forum/Institute/Symposium] Paula Don, School District of Philadelphia with Camilla Gagliolo, Don Knezek and Lynn Nolan Explore relationships and shared responsibilities of technology coordinators and district/building leaders as we continue down the road to systemic change.... For more information, visit http://www.iste.org/profdev/techleader2006.

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Ed Tech Coast to Coast at NECC

I had the opportunity to join Steve Burt, Will Richardson, Tim Wilson, and Tom Hoffman at NECC for a live recording or our occasional podcast Ed Tech Coast to Coast. Topics of discussion included the one laptop per child initiative, Open Source projects and potential, and really big schwag-bags.

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Aspen Ideas Festival

Aspen Ideas Festival: This week a few members of the WC team are attending the Aspen Ideas Festival, a week-long convergence in Aspen, Colorado, packed with seminars and discussions geared toward generating productive conversation around some of the world's greatest challenges, and emerging solutions.... They point to the Aspen Ideas Festival, taking place in Colorado this week.

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July4us

Over at We Are The Media, they are asking folks to document their July 4th experiences and tag them on Technorati with the tat: July4us. The video clips below are from July 4, 2004.

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