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This is an area that I have struggled with as both an IT person and a AV person over the years. The industry has changed so much over just the past 10 years. In 2007 everything was H323 or the new coming H264 standard. Video giants like Polycom and Tandberg ruled the hardware space. Installing a video conferencing system was a major undertaking for many schools in terms of knowledge and monetary investment. Then the iPhone hit, YouTube went huge…
Six years ago I had an idea for a new collaborative type of classroom. I had spent the previous 5 years getting AV equipment installed in all of our existing classrooms and was looking for an opportunity to do something different. Problem is I didn’t quite know exactly what I wanted to do. At the same time a donor wanted to do something new and innovative in the library. I pitched this not fully fleshed out idea and it peaked…
The rapid proliferation of digital learning tools has outpaced our ability to properly evaluate them. There is great temptation for faculty of modern colleges and universities to embark on expensive, time-consuming, and pedagogically dubious technology initiatives for the sake of a “21st-century learning” label on student recruitment, institutional reporting, and tenure evaluation materials. In 2014, Carroll College stood on the precipice of such an initiative after administrators visited Apple representatives in Cupertino, CA. Naturally, Carroll faculty were reticent to get on board…
Ten Educational Technology tools and ideas that I will be focusing on for this coming school year to enhance teaching and learning. Not in any real order but all just good tools and ideas. Note, this is really my personal list, and while I hope some of the ideas and links inspire to you search for more, I am always happy to get feedback and more ideas. Breakout EDU – These are fun and engaging for kids of all ages….
So, I have just returned from my second ISTE conference. I was much better prepared for this one than the first ISTE conference that I attended in 2013 which, by happenstance was at the same location (San Antonio, Texas) as this last one. In 2013 I was selected to present a poster on wireless technology in classroom. Now, being into wireless technology, working in an IT department and having some graphic design background, I thought I had this nailed. I…
Create a digital story was the goal for this assignment, seemed simple enough, but wow, that was a lot tougher that I thought. I started out in iMovie, and spent a good 6 hours going over photos adding in some video, extracting audio, changing length times and still had not recorded my audio. Hmmm… I thought, is this the best idea or should I look to something else. In comes Adobe Spark. Let me start by saying that I have…
Create a podcast was the foundation of the assignment. My first thought was “Oh yeah, I got this.” In 2007 I attended a conference where podcasts were all the rage, heck I even created a podcast back then and coded the XML wrapper, (however it was only 1 episode and really never went anywhere) years went by and podcasts kind of faded into the background. When I say into the background I mean for the general person who wanted something…