In our classroom, each week, we have a Friday Seminar. Last week, we made terrapotta. Not sure if that is spelled correctly, but the students glued and stuck as hard as they could, This week, they have been decorating their pots. Students participated in a discussion of how pottery is part [...]
Two students accused of attacking a teacher in a hallway of Germantown High School on Friday morning are now behind bars. The attack happened after 60-year-old Frank Burd confiscated an iPod from one of the students who was using it in class. The 14-year-old returned later with an 11th grader.
Technology in schools can get you [...]
Dave Winer has been thinking about the features of an ideal podcast player on his blog Scripting News. As a classroom teacher that has struggled to teach my students how to use Garageband on Apples, I agree with Dave’s wonderful characteristics. The recording feature is the trick. All my students have USB flash drive MP3 [...]
Last night, my daughter, my wife, and I attended a wonderfully pleasant wedding. At the reception, the DJ spun his magical mix of jazz, rock, hip-hop, Top 40’s from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. I am not sure how close my old ears got to the speakers, but my ears are ringing a little [...]
Dewey Hill and John Blake visit in Raleigh as part of the 2007 Legislative School Technology Day. Students from North Whiteville Academy in Whiteville participated in the event held Feb 13, 2007. My students discovered lots of talented kids doing things they had never heard of before. My students commented they did [...]
David is off on his private jet (that would be nice) to visit educators in Shanghai. Having a global view of literacy is important. If you are reading this, we missed you at the North Carolina Legislative Technology Day in Raleigh. I have posted three podcasts my students created that day. Check them out over [...]
Instructional Technology Division NC Department of Public Instruction
North Carolina school districts are cordially invited to participate in Legislative School Technology Day, Tuesday, February 13, 2007, from 10am until 2 pm at the North Carolina General Assembly Building. This event is designed to showcase for our legislators the exciting ways that technology is being used to [...]
What is Podcasting?
Podcasting is like Tivo for your computer. For consumers, it’s a way of time-shifting and subscribing to Internet media. For content creators, it’s a way of distributing audio or visual content using syndication, such as RSS. The process is surprisingly simple, and by making content available using RSS, podcasters give their audience more [...]
I just picked up a H4 yesterday. Tried to record a podcast while riding in the truck to pick while making a quick trip to town. However, nothing recorded. I read the manual when I got home. I found that starting a recording is a little tricky. To make the H4 record, you turn it [...]
