A collection of photography and exploration focusing on Upstate South Carolina and beyond.
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It’s been a crazy week, with a mad dash to get everything ready for teachers and students to return to our district next week. The first Back-to-School sales were advertised the weekend after the Fourth of July, and culminate this weekend with the annual Tax Free Weekend in South Carolina. In the past I’ve been … Read More “Tax-Free Weekend” »
I was checking e-mail on my Blackberry and typing with my thumbs, when Laura relayed and observation made by our friends, John & Sandy. They have two kids (pictured above) who are true digital natives. Sandy noticed that the kids tend to do everything with their thumbs as opposed to their index fingers. Pressing … Read More “Digital Natives – Thumb Evolution” »
One of the most frustrating things for Google Earth users is that most of the country is in low resolution. This includes the majority of South Carolina, and almost all of Greenville. The folks at GE have built in a temporary workaround by allowing users to add image overlays to GE. However, image overlays can … Read More “Google Earth – Using Image Overlays” »
Given my earlier rant against Podcasts, one might think that I’m completely against them. No. I just want them to be used correctly. I actually have some ideas for Podcasts that I might explore… Casual Segs – In this podcast I would draw upon my background as a college radio DJ. The show would focus … Read More “OK, So You’re Bound and Determined to Podcast” »
Safely home from FETC, I was able finally to process some of the information I had been getting at the conference. My reflections turned to podcasting, and to wonder specifically why I would want to do it. There are two things that would have to be overcome in order to make it really viable. First, … Read More “Why Podcast?” »
I had a 2:00 reservation at Emeril Legasse’s restaurant. This session started at 1:50. My one thought as I watch my colleagues get in the taxi was, "My god, I hope this session is worth it!" Currently Google Earth is blocked in our district. It seems that there is a conflict with our Internet Filter … Read More “FETC Day 2 – John Kuglin & Google Earth” »
The morning started with a session by Chris Dede of the Harvard Graduate School of Education entitled "NeoMillennial Learning Styles: Emerging Educational Technologies, Distributed Learning Communities". While this presentation touched on the same themes covered by Bill Daggart and David Warlick, it did so in the dry pedantic style one might expect from a Harvard … Read More “FETC – Day 2 Session, Part 1” »
At NECC I developed my drinking game for vendors. Here’s one for the sessions at tech conferences… Take one drink every time you hear the word "millenium" or variation thereof. Take one drink each time someone compares 20th Century Teaching with 21st Century Learning Requirements Take one drink each time someone’s cell phone goes off … Read More “FETC – Day 2, Drinking Game, Part II” »
The third concurrent session with David Warlick was the one I had been looking forward to for today’s sessions. His session was entitled "Harnessing the New Shape of Information." With a title like that, I figured it HAD to draw upon David Weinberger’s concepts. Weinberger’s keynote at NECC focused on the more theoretical aspects of … Read More “FETC – Day 1, Part 2” »
So far I’ve been fairly impressed with all most of the sessions I attended. I got up early for the Eye-Opener session with Willard Daggart, which proved to be the least interested. Daggart’s presentation was full of bombast, and seemed bent on shock value, and I seriously doubted some of the numbers and statistics he … Read More “FETC – Day 1, part 1” »