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Beyond Banning: Rules for Classroom Use of Cell Phones

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:54:44 GMT

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I’ve spent some time in this blog looking at practical applications of mobile technologies in today’s classrooms. While looking at theoretical ideas helps to frame conversations and direct one’s focus, practical ideas help to bring theoretical ideas to life. In this spirit, I would like to share some ideas about establishing classroom rules for cell [...]

Obstacles to Mobile Learning #2: Photocopying

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:33:10 GMT

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I had a conversation in Twitter about the high costs of photocopying and how these costs consume so much of a school budget. The waste is so high that it reduces a school’s ability to invest in technology.
Let’s take a look at some rough numbers*. Let’s peg the cost of one photocopy at $0.10 CAD. [...]

My Wordle Word Cloud

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:40:42 GMT

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I’ve been experimenting with Wordle and have been impressed with it’s simple, yet powerful service. Worlde takes a blog website or even a simple block of text and creates a word cloud from it, making more commonly used words larger than less commonly used words. Here is this blog’s Wordle word cloud:I was quite surprised [...]

iPods in Education Part 9: RSS Feeds

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:21:55 GMT

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RSS has been an indispensable tool for me. Being able to subscribe to web content and have that content come to me instead of me having to continuously find it has provided me with extra time to keep up with more content that I could have ever kept up with in the past. If you [...]

The High Price of Mobility: Can We Afford to be Connected?

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:20:08 GMT

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I feeling awfully torn these days. There are so many devices that allow for so many wonderful learning possibilities. Researching and publishing on the Internet from anywhere. Accessings RSS feeds from anywhere. Communicating and collaborating with one other person or many other people using text or voice or combinations of both. With so many [...]

Alternatives to Google: Rediscovering Yahoo!

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:32:08 GMT

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With the majority of educators who I read online or talk to face to face going goo-goo, ga-ga, over Google, I often feel like a minority. That really comes into play (to my detriment may I add) when I want to collaborate with others online. It’s always, “let’s collaborate using Google docs”, or “what’s your [...]

Major Obstacle to Mobile Learning: Cell Phone Providers!

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:10:05 GMT

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Fresh from my trip back from Italy, I want to use this opportunity to share my little experiment in cell phone mobility. My experiences can be summed up in this way: Don’t be fooled by the advertising -your cell phone is not as mobile as you think!
My experiment began about two months before I left [...]

iBand: It Was Only a Matter of Time

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:58:19 GMT

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What do you get when you mix a multi-touch gadget, music software and a little creativity? You get the iBand. An iPhone and iPod Touch band - mobile music at the creator level!
The software comes from MooCowMusic @ http://moocowmusic.com/. Not sure I’m thrilled with the song itself, but look at what’s now possible:

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iPods in Education Part 8: iTunes

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:59:16 GMT

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Disclaimer: I realize that we don’t need an iPod to utilize and organize educational content in iTunes. However, since iTunes is made to work with an iPod and since this results in the two working very well together, let’s look at the educational value of iTunes within the umbrella of using iPods in education. As [...]

Inspirational Quotes

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:05:49 GMT

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I have been reading quotes from Marshall McLuhan. I must admit, I have not read any Marshall McLuhan but have been inspired many of the quotes that I have been reading. It’s amazing to see how forward-thinking McLuhan was and how pertinent his ideas still are today. I will definitely add his work to my [...]