2008 has turned out to be one of the most significant in my life. It was a year of great loss as as well as great joy. Although I didn’t write so much about the latter, I became engaged to my long-time girlfriend, also a teacher, in September. And we will be beginning 2009 in …
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On Using Music in Video Podcasts It’s important that the music you choose to use in your video productions matches the mood of your project. Some of the K12 Online sessions had funeral dirge music during moments of inspiration and it kind of killed the mood for me. If you want good music you have …
Five Reasons Why We Aren’t We Integrating Technology in School
I spent a couple of hours this weekend hopping in and out of the K12Online Chat Room and listening to all the reasons why we should integrate technology in the classroom. Someone in the room proposed that if only every teacher in the world would watch just one session from the K12Online Conference, we could …
K12 Online 08 Week Two Review
I watched all of the presentations from Week Two that were available as movie files. I skipped any wiki presentations and audio podcasts. I’ve heard from other teachers who prefer the latter kind of presentation but I feel like I can see wikis and download podcasts any time. What’s unique about the conference in my …
Film School for Video Podcasters
My session for the K12Online Conference, Film School for Video Podcasters, is now online. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to download for your iPod or to watch on your computer. The sixteen minute presentation is a series of short vignettes framed by a film noir detective story in which I play the detective …
K12 Online: Week One Review
The first week of the free K12 Online Conference is over and it has been great fun to download four presentations each morning and have the chance to watch them later in the day. I also participated in the live chat at the conclusion of week one. I am in awe of the thinking, planning, …
K12 Online Conference
Now in its second year, the free K12 Online Conference 2008 will be held the last two weeks of October. There will be forty presentations which will be released two per day. However, once the presentations are available you can view them at any time. Indeed, the presentations from previous years are still online and …