READY TO ROLL WITH TANDBERG VIDEOCONFERENCING!

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Major miracle today: we worked with Advanced Network Design (the association that manages a firewall as good as network during a Oklahoma Heritage Association) to get a firewall as good as DHCP server configured for videoconferencing with the Tandberg Edge 95 MXP codec we have. We used a following open pier settings (referenced in a Nov 2007 post) to get a firewall configured for both incoming as good as effusive H.323 videoconferencing calls:

  • Port 1720 TCP
  • Port operation 3230-3270 TCP
  • Port operation 3230-3253 UDP

I am assembly probably with Lance Ford in a sunrise to go over a facilities of a Edge 95 MXP in detail. we used both Polycom as good as VTEL (ooh, recollect those days…) when we was operative during Texas Tech University as a executive of stretch guidance in a College of Education for 5 years, yet wasn’t introduced wholly to Tandberg until we proposed work for AT&T in 2006. we REALLY similar to Tandberg apparatus as good as their people, as good as am really eager to partner with Tandberg here during a Gaylord-Pickens Museum in Oklahoma City. My a one preferred believe to date with Tandberg apparatus was our Dec 2007 videoconference from Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, joining U.S. maestro survivors of a Japanese conflict upon a U.S.S. Oklahoma with facile as good as delegate students behind in Oklahoma USA. Tandberg loaned us a videoconferencing apparatus to have that tie giveaway of charge, as good as was a smashing partner with that to work.

To determine my video IP settings were operative excellent inside of a network today, we downloaded as good as commissioned a duplicate of a free/open source XMeeting module program for Macintosh. Like a commercially accessible Polycom PVX software (only accessible for WinXP though, not Vista) XMeeting lets we bond your mechanism without delay in a H.323 videoconference as an endpoint.

XMeeting confirms a Tandberg is working!

After joining locally upon a network in between my MacBook Pro as good as a Tandberg codec, we dialed out after in a day to Lance as good as had him dial me directly, to endorse a firewall is setup to concede both incoming as good as effusive videoconference calls. All of this equates to we should be “ready to roll” with videoconferencing here during a OHA. Once we bring essential element to a office building as good as network in a entrance months as good as enlarge a accessible bandwidth to 5 MB a connectivity will be even better, yet today’s calls during 384 kbps as good as 512 kbps looked as good as sounded great.

I instruct there was an open source H.323 module similar to XMeeting for Windows computers, yet to my believe there is not. Netmeeting has been “deprecated” by Microsoft (there’s a good Scrabble word for you) for WinXP users in preference of Windows Messenger as good as Microsoft Office Live Meeting. For Vista users (a organisation of that I’m happy to NOT equate myself a member) Windows Meeting Space as good as MS Office Live Meeting have been a Microsoft-recommended as good as permitted online partnership environments. Microsoft SharedView is a giveaway focus for both XP as good as Vista that can additionally be used for collaboration, yet NONE of these module options (with a difference of a right away deprecated Netmeeting) have been H.323 compatible. :-( Ekiga IS H.323 concordant as good as free, yet is usually accessible for Linux.

Later this week I’ll be receiving this Tandberg Edge codec to Oklahoma City University, that is hosting our initial “Oklahoma Institute” row contention with county leaders scheduled for a afternoon of Oct 14th. Again with a assistance of Tandberg as good as Lance Ford, we am assisting promote videoconferencing connectors for this eventuality with remote sites in Enid, Lawton, as good as Tulsa. The thesis of a Oct 14th OI eventuality is “public service.” Participating panelists embody Clayton I. Bennett, stream Tulsa Mayor Kathy Taylor, Mickey Edwards, as good as stream Muskogee Mayor John Tyler Hammons. This promises to be a good row contention as good as I’m seeking brazen to assisting have this a blended guidance eventuality around videoconferencing technologies.

As an aside… Interestingly a VTEL English WikiPedia article has been wholly deleted for a little reason. It is still referenced in today’s chronicle of a Tandberg WikiPedia page. we consternation why?

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SOME MOODLE LESSONS LEARNED

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I’ve outlayed a satisfactory bit of time a past couple of weeks operative in Moodle to emanate a randomized ask for students upon vacation the notable relic where you work after their field trips, as good as a clergyman analysis survey. you am unequivocally enjoying a event my brand brand brand brand brand brand new pursuit purpose is affording me to emanate amicable media calm as good as work with web 2.0 collection identical to Moodle, though you am anticipating these prospects suddenly severe in most ways as well. you commented tonight upon Twitter that you should have taken a march array in college upon plan government as good as scold time determination for pursuit completion. you didn’t unfortunately, as good as nonetheless it is never to late to sense something brand brand brand brand brand brand new you am anticipating it formidable to change a unsentimental need to contend “I can’t do that right now” or “That will take utterly awhile to complete” with my inherited enterprise to furnish formula as good as be intensely manageable to a needs as good as desires of my peers as good as supervisor.

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As you accomplished a primary “draft” of a online Moodle randomized ask resolution today, it occurred to me that it is most some-more dangerous to implement an open source resolution for a “production need” in a box identical to this rsther than than only “experimenting” with it as you am with a courses I’m training this fall during a church. I’m proposing that my brand brand brand brand brand brand new dialect stipulate with Remote Learner subsequent year for a little grave Moodle support. I’m not awaiting problems, though there can be a VERY dim side to “being your own tech await department,” as good as nonetheless you feel you have a good veteran guidance village to that you could (and do during times) strech out during need for technical assistance, you cruise I’ll feel a lot improved profitable for veteran await benefit as you have Moodle an constituent partial of a tutorial overdo activities.

I was gay to find a Moodle Questionnaire wake up module not long ago as you sought a approach to emanate Lickert-scale questions in a consult for teachers. An analysis consult didn’t “fit” in a default Moodle ask procedure options, though this petition procedure fits a check nicely. This was a initial “add-on” procedure for Moodle I’ve downloaded, uploaded, configured as good as utilized. The routine was unequivocally straightforward, as good as utterly identical to a routine of activating brand brand brand brand brand brand new plug-ins for Wordpress. you uploaded a complete procedure office to my “mod” office upon my Moodle server, as good as clicked a “Notifications” couple underneath a Administration sidebar to have Moodle implement as good as configure a brand brand brand brand brand brand new module. you did have to re-download an comparison chronicle of a procedure formed upon a chronicle of Moodle I’m regulating currently, though once you got that scold chronicle it configured itself rught away though any problems.

In a routine of reckoning out how to have use of a Moodle ask procedure you did sense what the “adaptive mode” is, as good as finished up selecting it with an homogeneous chastisement weight as a complete subject has. This equates to students receiving a ask can try a subject mixed times, as good as they can see either they got a subject right or wrong immediately, though their initial answer is a the single that will count.

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I adore how you was means to emanate 6 opposite subject categories as good as afterwards stock any difficulty with questions that embody photographs. The ask itself draws pointless questions from any category, so we’ll be means to go on adding to a subject bank in any difficulty in a months forward though will not have to transparent or have changes to a ask I’ve combined itself: More subject possibilities will simply turn accessible as they have been combined to a bank.

To facilitate a interface as good as a accessible options in a Moodle course, you schooled you could “hide” unneeded procedure elements together with a headlines section, a ultimate wake up block, as good as a administration department retard as well. In further to display a single of a part-time employees how to supplement one some-more multiple-choice questions to a ask subject database, you still need to create as good as customize a Moodle theme for a site that will confederate a trademark as good as tone scheme.

I really, REALLY identical to Moodle, as good as am so blissful to have multiform opportunities this tumble to get some-more first-hand practice regulating as good as customizing Moodle to encounter opposite guidance government complement requirements. you positively don’t cruise myself to be a Moodle guru, though you am gentle right away with a brand brand brand brand brand brand new title, “Moodle-dabbler.” :-)

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PODCAST285: TECHSHOPPINGCART EPISODE 10 - CHALLENGES WITH INTEGRATING WEB 2.0 IN SCHOOLS

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Welcome to part 10 of the Technology Shopping Cart Podcast, available as the live webcast upon Sep 26, 2008. This part facilities the review with Bob Martin as good as Brad Meyerhoff,  tutorial record trainers for MOREnet in Missouri. Karen Montgomery as good as Wesley Fryer visited with Bob as good as Brad about the hurdles that infrequently movement when teachers proceed regulating read/write web collection to promote collaboration, communication, as good as calm origination in classrooms. Bob as good as Brad work with the far-reaching accumulation of teachers in different Missouri propagandize districts, as good as have facilitated the series of conversations during tutorial conferences in the past year that concentration upon overcoming the obstacles to in effect web 2.0 formation in schools. In further to deliberating strategies that have been operative to open the doorway to web 2.0 apparatus use, webcast participants additionally discussed the couple of tutorial record headlines equipment as good as common multiform brand brand new “geek of the week” websites. This was the initial live webcast in that you used giveaway CamTwist software, that permits (among alternative things) the slideshow of immobile images to be common in the Ustream video window instead of only the live video feed. This audio podcast chronicle is longer than the Ustream repository for this part since it includes the initial fourteen mins in that you had the little audio technical problems with Ustream. Those problems were wholly user-generated! We have been stability to sense some-more any week about podcasting as good as webcasting. As regularly you acquire your feedback as good as comments.

Show Notes:

  1. Tech Shopping Cart Wiki resources for this show
  2. UStream video archive (minus the initial fourteen mins of the show)
  3. National Study Reveals How Teens have been Shaping & Reshaping Their Wireless World. Study Sheds New Light On Teens’ Cell Phone Habits, Expectations & Dream Phone Wishes (12 Sept 2008)
  4. Use Google Moderator To Crowdsource Group Questions
  5. Trainer Profiles from MOREnet
  6. Google Moderator
  7. K-12 Online Conference
  8. Key Resources for Media Literacy from Temple University
  9. CamTwist for Mac
  10. Schools have been NOT compulsory by Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) to retard all web 2.0 sites
  11. The EdJurist Blog- http://www.edjurist.com/
  12. Scott Bauries: The Recent E-Discovery Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as good as Communicative Technologies in School Districts (Intro)
  13. Buzzword (collaborative request essay from Adobe)
  14. Using the Mac, how to webconference regulating Ustream as good as skype (thanks Ryan Gordon)
  15. Gomeric Hill: Blog of Karen Montgomery
  16. Thinking Machine: Presentation as good as Workshop Curriculum of Karen Montgomery
  17. Karen Montgomery upon Twitter
  18. Wesley Fryer upon Twitter

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THEATER MAGIC IN WAMEGO, KANSAS AND KSU FOOTBALL

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It was the full day of family fun for my daughter as good as you in the Flinthills of northeast Kansas! After in attendance the tailgate as good as afterwards examination the KSU Wildcats cheep out the win in their final non-conference diversion of the unchanging 2008 football season, you attended the smashing musical opening of “The Wizard of Oz” in the remarkable “Columbian Theater” in Wamego, Kansas. The Columbian reminds me the lot of The Pollard Theater in Guthrie, Oklahoma, where the family saw the low-pitched “Big River” final fall.

Here have been the couple of print highlights from the day!

The Columbian Theater after the opening tonight:

Columbian Theater in Wamego

Dorothy as good as the Wicked Witch of the West acted with Sarah after the low-pitched was over:

Dorothy, Sarah, as good as the Witch

Perhaps many conspicuous in tonight’s opening was the work of the “flight crew” who managed to commission witches as good as monkeys to fly!

The Flight Crew of "The Wizard of Oz" in Wamego, Kansas

While the “Wizard of Oz” low-pitched opening was expected the prominence of my daughter’s day today, in attendance the KSU football diversion with my father was positively mine:

Wesley as good as Tom Fryer during the KSU football game

During the game, fans were asked to take photos with their dungeon phones as good as afterwards email them to wildcatfans@ksu.edu. you snapped as good as emailed in the following print with my iPhone, though it was NOT shown in the 2nd half along with alternative submitted air blower photos. you consternation if the reason it was released was the man sitting at the back of us, who looks similar to he was TOTALLY ASLEEP! The diversion wasn’t the nail-biter for many of the afternoon, though it positively wasn’t as tedious as this associate assumingly found it! (We should substantially give him the good of the doubt, you gamble his eyes usually happened to be sealed when you snapped the shiver for this picture.)

The print you submitted around email to wildcatfans@ksu.edu

My usually censure from the day was which outward bottles of H2O have been NOT authorised in Bill Snyder family stadium, as good as the stadium-wide bound cost for bottled H2O is $3.50 any for twenty ounces. Good grief! you consider which is ridiculous.

A $3.50 bottle of H2O in Bill Snyder Family Stadium

Water: $3.50 per bottle

Perhaps the summary of this t-shirt is not true. It positively was in the residence today, however! :-)

Every Man the Wildcat

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TRAVIAN IS OVER AFTER 10 MONTHS (FOR ME)

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After roughly a full year of personification a online diversion Travian, gameplay is over for me upon a server. One of a alternative alliances successfully built their Wonder of a World to turn 100.

After roughly a year of gameplay, Travian is over for me

The player “Steve a Spiffy” referenced in a summary upon tip of was a part of of a fondness (SE Meta) as well as a player you had HOPED would be means to set up his consternation to turn 100 first. you cruise he contingency be a college tyro given he seemed to be online personification Travian roughly twenty-four hours per day, 7 days per week. you know from a single of his messages which a series of hours he outlayed personification a diversion unequivocally took a disastrous fee upon his health. you am certain he is VERY bummed to have mislaid a competition to a tip upon a server. you am disappointed, yet you didn’t deposit NEARLY a volume of time personification this diversion as a little of a leaders of a fondness obviously did.

Travian Endgame - US Server 4

I accomplished a diversion with twenty villages, as well as a little flattering important prolongation levels in my capital.

Final Travian Capital

It is rsther than extraordinary to cruise which roughly any day for a past 10 months, with usually a integrate of exceptions, I’ve been online during slightest a integrate of mins any day to fool around Travian. “Playing Travian” has meant logging in to:

  • Build up fields as well as erect buildings in my cities
  • Check messages as well as send messages in-game
  • Build infantry as well as many not long ago send infantry to a fondness villages office building wonders
  • Scouting alternative villages as well as promulgation raids upon neighbors
  • Checking as well as monitoring conflict logs
  • Trading resources with alternative players
  • When you was heading a tiny alliance, monitoring player activity, revelation brand brand brand new members, messaging others who pounded a members, organizing defensive as well as descent attacks, etc.
  • Settling brand brand brand new villages in brand brand brand new locations

I have schooled a GREAT bargain personification Travian, as has my 10 year aged son. It’s been so fun to work with him upon bargain a coordinate grid system, as well as assisting him sense to graph upon a coordinate grid so he could devise enlargement of his own villages. I’ve seen him write some-more email messages than he ever has prior to in his life, as he had to reply to inquiries from alternative players, as well as many not long ago (during a endgame struggles to support a fondness members) messaging a descent fondness leaders to send his “hammer” (large force of descent infantry he built up) upon strategic, concurrent attacks with alternative fondness members opposite a enemies.

Alexander as well as you available dual podcasts during a past 10 months, in Dec 2007 (“Podcast209: A 10 year aged discusses Travian, an online make-believe fight game”) as well as in Mar 2008 (“Podcast240: Travian Tips as well as Lessons Learned After Four Months Playing Online.”) Those have been dual of a many renouned podcasts I’ve ever available as well as published. As of tonight, Podcast209 has been downloaded 5371 times, Podcast240 has been downloaded 2212 times. (According to my PodPress stats.) you am certain you will jot down a final “debriefing” podcast in a subsequent week or so whilst a diversion is still uninformed upon a minds. We’ve schooled a GREAT bargain about a lot of topics during a past 10 months of gameplay together, as well as it will be engaging to listen to what he has to contend during a finish of this “era.”

Personally, nonetheless you have enjoyed personification Travian, you am additionally relieved a diversion is over. The diversion is setup so which if you have been not “active” upon your comment during a duration of time (I cruise twenty-four hours) your comment goes “red” as well as alternative players can see which you have been inactive. Going dead can outcome in removing kicked out of your fondness (which protects you from conflict from others) as well as potentially being raided as well as pounded by alternative players. I’m relieved Travian is over given given you accomplished a diversion with twenty opposite villages, progressing any of these villages during a finish of any day has unequivocally taken a satisfactory bit of time. you didn’t essentially time this, yet I’m flattering certain any night you would outlay during slightest twenty or thirty mins upon Travian you do all a things you indispensable to do to say my resources, troops, buildings, as well as fondness members.

Here is a thing which seems so uncanny right away which Travian is over, however: Besides my own son as well as my cousin, who played Travian upon a same server for awhile, you have NO IDEA who a alternative players were/are which you played with in a fondness as well as opposite upon a server. In a fondness which you (Alexander as well as I) assimilated for a final half of a game, you did have an online forum which you had to register for with my tangible email address. It would have been probable to ask a single or some-more of a players in a fondness “Who have been you in genuine life?” yet you never did, as well as don’t devise to. Everyone played with a screenname. The player form area lets players prove their location, so you know many of a players in a fondness were in a United States, yet a little of them live in Australia. One of my many appropriate buddies/friends in Travian, actually, who was a chairman who acted as a “sitter” for me when you had to be offline from my comment for some-more than a single day, does live in Australia. you have no thought who he is! This is so weird.

It roughly seems as if you haven’t been you do something “real” given you don’t have any thought who these alternative players have been which I’ve outlayed a substantial volume of time with communicating, collaborating, complaint solving, as well as probably “fighting” opposite alternative players as well as alliances. This HAS been real, however, even yet a gameplay has all been practical as well as online. The practice have been genuine for my son as well as I. We got in a “doghouse” with my mother after usually only a integrate months of playing, given a single dusk an additional fondness launched a large call of attacks opposite a tiny fondness as well as you accomplished up being late for an eventuality which night given you had to send out a lot of messages to a fondness members prior to withdrawal a house. (My mother had worry bargain since which was a great as well as required preference during which point.) This was a REAL gaming experience, as well as essentially a longest / many postulated gaming knowledge I’ve ever had. Yet given of a anonymity of it all, it has a opposite feel than you have when personification a “normal” diversion face-to-face with others.

Lots some-more to simulate upon when it comes to Travian, yet altogether I’m blissful it is OVER.

What am you starting to do with all my dusk giveaway time now?

Maybe I’ll essentially write my thesis during last….. :-)

Farewell Caper, Swampeater, Cupperous Tin, Killer Mike, piscespixie, addramyttium, as well as a alternative members of SE Fox!

Final Travian Ranks for Eomer as well as Legoarf

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FOLLOW TONIGHT’S PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE ON OETA’S POLITICAL PULSE BLOG

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As you might know, the initial U.S. Presidential discuss of a 2008 campaign is scheduled for this dusk (September 26, 2008) during 8 pm CDT. Here in Oklahoma, a open air wave network (OETA) has combined a Oklahoma Votes 2008 website to yield energetic choosing coverage. One of a site’s resources is the Political Pulse blog, authored by Dick Pryor. The blog has a tagline “Unbiased Information upon Oklahoma Politics.”

Political Pulse

I got to know Dick final December when you were both partial of a group sent to Hawaii to facilitate a videoconference with USS Oklahoma maestro survivors from Ford Island in Pearl Harbor. you unequivocally enjoyed a event to not usually work with Dick though additionally sense from him as a maestro publisher in both air wave as well as television.

In his many new entrance upon The Political Pulse, “Debate Prep Resource,” Dick associated to Frank Baker as well as Karen Zil’s superb website “Lights, Camera, Debate!” that provides resources to make make use of of in allege as well as following a Presidential debates. The website focuses on:

How to watch a presidential debates from a media-literacy perspective.

This is a good pick up of resources. What a super time to focus upon media literacy!

As a associated aside, OETA’s Oklahoma World War II Veterans Project won a Emmy Award for Community Service during a National Academy of Television Arts as well as Sciences Heartland Emmy Awards Presentation upon Jul 19, 2008. Resources still accessible associated to this plan embody the Oklahoma World War II Stories project website, as well as the WetPaint wiki you used for tutorial digital guidance projects associated to a December 6, 2007, videoconference from Pearl Harbor. The Veteran Interview beam upon a OETA website (PDF format) is a single apparatus you go upon to make make use of of for a ongoing Celebrate Oklahoma Voices verbal story project.

Whether or not you’re an Oklahoman, you praise both the Oklahoma Votes 2008 website as well as Dick’s Political Pulse blog as good resources to implement in a classroom as well as during home as you watch as well as experience in a maturation elections this tumble during local, state as well as inhabitant levels.

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CAMTWIST WORKED TODAY FOR OUR WEBCAST!

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For this morning’s live Technology Shopping Cart webcast over Ustream as good as Skype you attempted regulating CamTwist for a initial time. Complimenting SoundFlower (a giveaway “Free Inter-application Audio Routing Utility for Mac OS X”) which can be used to brew as good as shift audio sources for webcasting, CamTwist (also accessible free) permits users to brew up as good as shift a video sources used for opposite applications, together with a Ustream webcast. you usually used the slideshow feature to swap in between opposite still images during a webcast. you similar to this improved than usually carrying people see me when you have been carrying a row contention with 4 opposite people, as good as I’m a usually a single who can potentially be upon video!

Tech Shopping Cart Live!

The usually complaint you ran in to for a initial 10-15 mins of a webcast was which you pale a broadcasted audio in my Firefox browser so no a single in a discuss room could listen to us for a initial “news” shred of a webcast! you was conference playback audio from a webstream as good as indispensable to tongue-tied it, though hadn’t satisfied which audio was entrance from my alternative open web browser (Safari) which you was regulating to login in to a Ustream discuss with a opposite username. After you paused a playback upon which window as good as incited a volume behind up in a Firefox promote window all was fine!

Live Broadcasting by Ustream

I’ve submitted a offer for a tumble (Nov thirteen as good as 14) Oklahoma Distance Learning Association’s annual conference called “Webcasting upon a Shoestring” which will be a how-to event for webcasting with a following hardware as good as module ingredients:

The event outline you submitted is:

Hosting air wave shows for a tellurian assembly with an Internet-connected laptop as good as $30! Historically it has been utterly costly to furnish as good as horde a live air wave module which is broadcasted for a tellurian audience. Today, it is probable to share a live webcast over a Internet regulating a laptop computer, a tall speed Internet connection, as good as a multiple of giveaway module programs as good as a single $30 blurb module program. In this event you will insist as good as denote how to make use of a Mac laptop, a USB dungeon phone interpretation card, a web browser as good as a website Ustream.tv, Skype software, Audio Hijack Pro module (the $30 program) as good as giveaway Camtwist module to webcast for a tellurian assembly upon a shoestring budget. Access referenced links upon http://handouts.wesfryer.com/shoestring-webcasting.

Generally you share some-more introductory-level presentations during conferences so I’m meditative it will be fun to share this some-more “bleeding edge” event upon webcasting. One of a guest currently upon a uncover (I consider it was Bob Martin) commented which in his pursuit role, he “tries to drain [with web 2.0 tools] so teachers don’t have to.” you feel a small similar to which regulating these collection for a live webcast! There were a couple of scratches during a webcast currently though you don’t consider any one did any bleeding!

I’ll try to get a mp3 chronicle of a webcast posted as podcast over a weekend.

Thanks again to Ryan Gordon for his instructions upon webcasting with Ustream, Skype, Soundflower as good as Audio Hijack Pro.

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TECH SHOPPING CART WEBCAST THIS MORNING: CHALLENGES OF WEB 2.0 INTEGRATION

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You’re politely invited to stick upon Karen Montgomery as well as you at 3 pm GMT currently (that’s in an hour - 10 am US Central time) for an one some-more live, webcast partial around Ustream.tv of a “Technology Shopping Cart” podcast series. This week you have been focusing upon a thesis “Challenges of Integrating Web 2.0 in a Classroom” as well as will be assimilated by 3 Missouri tutorial leaders.

Bob Martin as well as Brad Meyerhoff have been all tutorial record trainers as well as integrators with with MOREnet in Missouri. You can review their bios as well as couple to one some-more report about MOREnet upon the MOREnet Trainer Bios page.

For this partial we’ll follow a 3 partial format, addressing:

  1. Noteworthy tutorial record headlines from a past 3 weeks (since our final episode)
  2. Our thesis of a week as well as panelist interviews: Challenges of Integrating Web 2.0 in a Classroom
  3. Our “geeks of a week.”

I have common this prior to though it bears repeating: Our linktribution credit as well as “shoutout” interjection for a “geek of a week” uncover component goes out to Bob Sprankle, Cheryl Oakes as well as Alice Barr in their Seedlings podcast that is right away accessible as an almost-weekly live webcast (Thursday nights) upon EdTechTalk.

This week we’ll be regulating a special Ustream channel Karen has setup privately for Technology Shopping Cart podcasts. Please stick upon us during 11 am Eastern / 10 am Central / 9 am Mountain / 8 am Pacific for a show, that as common will final about an hour. We acquire questions, comments, as well as common links in a Ustream discuss room. We additionally acquire general educators outward a United States to stick upon us as well as carillon in a conversations.

Online TV Shows by Ustream

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SCHOOLS ARE NOT REQUIRED BY FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (FRCP) TO BLOCK ALL WEB 2.0 SITES

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My Sep 13, 2008, post “Explaining the worth of microblogging as well as Twitter for educators” desirous Paul Barrette to criticism as well as ask:

But in the US, how would we open up entrance to Twitter whilst still assembly the mandate of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure upheld in Dec of 2006 which need propagandize districts (among alternative open institutions) to repository electronic communications? Archiving can simply be finished with an inner complement (we have make make make make make make use of of of of of of of FirstClass), though it’s not unequivocally possibly for systems outward of the district.

In my rsther than extensive criticism response to Paul’s subject as well as the assumptions which underlie it, we responded in part:

The vigilant of the law [FRCP] was not to chill have make make make make make make use of of of of of of of of each website as well as program apparatus which permits partnership as well as facilitates learning. The vigilant of the law was to yield support of network abuse as well as misuse. [PREVENT THE INTENTIONAL DESTRUCTION OF DOCUMENTS RELEVANT TO ONGOING LITIGATION.] Districts should as well as contingency according to the law have great conviction efforts to repository electronic communications upon the district’s email server, though it is impractical as well as counterproductive to try to repository each outbound parcel of interpretation which is combined by students, teachers, as well as alternative district staff members in-district.

Of march we am NOT the lawyer, so my viewpoint should not be construed or interpreted as authorised advice, though Scott Bauries IS the counsel as well as has combined an clear post additionally responding to Paul’s subject as well as viewpoint upon the Edjurist blog titled, “The Recent E-Discovery Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as well as Communicative Technologies in School Districts (Intro).” Scott concludes his post by noting:

As we referred to above, the e-discovery amendments for the initial time introduced in to the FRCP pithy supplies controlling the avowal as well as prolongation of electronically stored information. Since then, the myth has grown between the little open preparation practitioners which institutions regulating such inform contingency thus right away repository all electronic inform in box it is after indispensable in discovery, notwithstanding their before practices as well as notwithstanding the miss of any expected lawsuit connected with the inform in question. No such eccentric avocation was combined by any of the e-discovery amendments adopted in 2006, as well as no such avocation exists anywhere else in the FRCP (although state preparation laws or executive codes might need otherwise). As we will insist serve in the destiny post, underneath the FRCP, an establishment might be compulsory to hindrance the slight drop of electronically stored inform once lawsuit has begun, though outward which singular circumstance, the e-discovery amendments do not need the archiving of any electronic inform not formerly stored.

As to the have make make make make make make use of of of of of of of of Web 2.0 technologies in education, then, it is doubtful which the e-discovery amendments will strech many of this inform because, if it is stored during all, it is customarily stored by the third party, such as the blog hosting site (and is thus in which party’s receive as well as control, rsther than than the district’s). As to the have make make make make make make use of of of of of of of of alternative electronic communicative technologies, such as email, the amendments obviously apply, as well as the superfluous posts in this array will residence the specific changes which were done to the FRCP as well as how they stroke the every day work of preparation practitioners as well as leaders who have make make make make make make use of of of of of of of these technologies.

Just as clergyman myths have led to widespread, overly regressive interpretations of satisfactory have make make make make make make use of of of of of of of supplies of U.S. egghead skill law (a incident being addressed by a stirring inform due upon Nov 11, 2008 from the Media Education Lab during Temple University underneath the care of Dr. Renee Hobbs) we consider we have the little cases of regressive misinterpretations of the FRCP by propagandize district administrators as well as IT staff members when it comes to web 2.0 sites as well as technologies.

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U.S. law does NOT need propagandize districts to repository EVERY interpretation parcel traversing propagandize networks. It IS authorised (as distant as FRCP mandates go) for propagandize district leaders to assent the have make make make make make make use of of of of of of of of blogs, wikis, amicable networking sites, as well as web 2.0 review sites similar to Twitter as well as Plurk but environment up the complement for archiving all these communications packets. There have been opposite reasons propagandize districts retard websites, as well as the single of the many usual is to try to keep students “on task” when they have been online. (i.e. not checking their Facebook profiles when they have been “supposed” to be we do Internet research.) Just as there is no authorised order for schools to retard websites to “keep students upon task,” conjunction is there the authorised order which schools retard all web 2.0 sites from clergyman as well as tyro entrance upon the propagandize network when the interpretation packets common upon those sites have been not being electronically archived by the district.

Many interjection to Dr. Scott McLeod as well as Dr. Justin Bathon for forwarding this strange post about Twitter as well as as well as FRCP to Scott Bauries for his insights as well as perspectives. If your propagandize district is restraint web 2.0 sites as well as collection since of the avowed idea which FRCP requires such sites to be shut off if all interpretation exchanged there cannot be archived, we inspire we to brazen this post from Scott to them as well as go upon to follow his post array upon Edjurist.

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PODCAST284: MEDIA LITERACY AS LITERACY FOR THE INFORMATION AGE BY DR. RENE HOBBS

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This podcast is a recording of Dr. Renee Hobbs’ keynote during a 2008 OTEP Reading Conference upon Sep 19, 2008 during Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma. The pretension of her keynote was “Media Literacy as Literacy for a Information Age.” The discussion thesis was “Critical Literacy for Adolescents.” The Oklahoma Teacher Enhancement Program (OTEP) is a Title II Teacher Quality Enhancement Grant awarded to a Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education by a U. S. Department of Education. Renee Hobbs is a single of a nation’s heading authorities upon media education. She is a executive of a Media Education Lab during Temple University, as well as over a past twenty years, she has helped move media preparation to a forefront, educating thousands of students opposite a United States by her collaborative work with state preparation agencies as well as media companies. Hobbs is additionally a co-founder of a Alliance for a Media Literate America (AMLA), a inhabitant membership classification of a National Media Education Conference; a co-principal questioner during a Pennsylvania Department of Public Health; as well as a co-director a Ph.D. Mass Media module during Temple.

Show Notes:

  1. Dr Hobbs’ display slides upon SlideShare
  2. Media Education Lab during Temple University
  3. Alliance for a Media Literate America (AMLA) - The inhabitant membership classification for media literacy
  4. Ypulse Interview: Renee Hobbs, Goddess Of Media Literacy
  5. Access, Analyze, Act: A Blueprint for 21st Century Civic Engagement
  6. Key Media Literacy Resources from a Media Education Lab
  7. 2008 OTEP Reading Conference Speaker’s Page
  8. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education

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