John Costilla's Blog – October 2008 Archive (23)

The Great Wall - Part 2

In a recent post by Michael Wesch titled "A Vision for Students Today (& What Teachers Must Do)," I read…

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Added by John Costilla on October 29, 2008 at 8:14am — No Comments

The Great Wall - Part 1

When the World Wide Web was created in 1989, its main objective was to enable the free exchange of information via interlinked hypertext documents.

After 20 years, we have created firewalls, filters and blocked information flow for various reasons. In our own education systems, students are limited to certain video sharing sites, social communities, and blogs. Many students have more access… Continue

Added by John Costilla on October 29, 2008 at 8:12am — No Comments

Information | Knowledge | Wisdom

The other day, my son had done something we didn't approve of and so we took his cell phone away and access to the computer. He loves technology for what it offers, both good and not so good: YouTube, social networks for kids or not (myspace) and research for school. Over the course of a summer break, he taught himself how to read music, play the guitar and follow along with these videos to learn certain songs - I must… Continue

Added by John Costilla on October 27, 2008 at 3:05pm — No Comments

Google Earth for iPhone :-)

Google Earth for the iPhone Has a Beautiful Interface

from Mashable! by Stan…

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Added by John Costilla on October 27, 2008 at 11:13am — No Comments

K12Online Today's Events - Oct. 22, 2008

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Presentation Title: “Never Too Young”

Description: Teachers of our youngest students are often left behind when trying to implement new… Continue

Added by John Costilla on October 22, 2008 at 9:59am — No Comments

K12Online Today's Events - Oct. 21, 2008

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Presentation Title: “The Google Gamut: Everything you need to get started,” Kern Kelley

Description: The number of technology resources available… Continue

Added by John Costilla on October 21, 2008 at 7:03am — No Comments

Real or Not: Video streaming on iPhone?

This just posted yesterday on"Old School Blogging."

Qik App for the iPhone

What is QIK? — Qik is a little piece of software that lets you stream video live from your cell phone to the web, where your audience can chat back in real time…

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Added by John Costilla on October 21, 2008 at 7:02am — No Comments

K12Online Today's Events - Oct. 20, 2008

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Presentation Title “How Can I Become Part of this ReadWriteWeb… Continue

Added by John Costilla on October 21, 2008 at 7:02am — No Comments

Inspire. Do.

I found this Inspirational Image to be both interesting and "spot on." Darren Draper share a few others, but this one really resonates with me and a post I shared a while back — Stop Lurking and Do something! Blogging for me, is something that I decided to do a while back as a result of this — knowing is one thing, doing is something else. I think our… Continue

Added by John Costilla on October 16, 2008 at 8:00am — No Comments

A Web 2.0 Halloween

Last night America, went out for weekly Tuesday meeting and so I had the kids at home to myself. After giving the critters their baths and getting them into their pjs, we got into the Halloween spirit. With that, we pulled out all the gear from the attic and decided to create a haunted hallway. The kids love making tents with blankets and such so we… Continue

Added by John Costilla on October 15, 2008 at 7:00am — No Comments

Video to go

Brightcove.tv has released Platform 3, the latest of their online video distribution service. Read the complete review by Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins from Mashable. Improved publishing system and media management tools… Continue

Added by John Costilla on October 14, 2008 at 8:12am — No Comments

K12Online Conference Underway

The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. This FREE conference run by volunteers and open to everyone. The 2008 conference theme is “Amplifying Possibilities”. This year’s conference begins with a pre-conference keynote… Continue

Added by John Costilla on October 13, 2008 at 8:04am — No Comments

YouTube x 4

Who doesn't like 80's music? Okay, the song is a little cheesy, but take a look at this in 4 x YouTube HD! We've all see a lot of YouTube in our time, but this is really cool and probably very time consuming. Four YouTube Videos running simultaneously to form one video. Click play at the top to have them auto synced. I wish I would have thought of this...…

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Added by John Costilla on October 10, 2008 at 1:55pm — 2 Comments

"...and I quote."

As I was reading through a series of blogs from my Google reader, I came upon this post (Steve Jobs' 10 Secrets to Building a Huge Empire) by Manish Pandey, a tech enthusiast and blogger. It basically goes on to talk about notable quotes from Steve Jobs and how they… Continue

Added by John Costilla on October 9, 2008 at 11:17am — 2 Comments

School 2.0

Chris Lehman shares some of his ideas about the schools that we need. All kids should be able to collaborate, create, present and… Continue

Added by John Costilla on October 8, 2008 at 6:27am — 1 Comment

Livestation

Today's blogs slant towards video, so in that spirit, a great tool for teachers or anyone is Livestation. A great way to integrate video in the classroom.

Livestation is without a doubt one of the most impressive collections of live television viewing for Windows, Mac, and Linux users. The reason being that the number of choices for… Continue

Added by John Costilla on October 7, 2008 at 8:27am — No Comments

Your own YouTube-style service?

PermissionTV Provides White Label Video Platform Services

from Mashable! by Doriano "Paisano"…

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Added by John Costilla on October 7, 2008 at 8:09am — No Comments

What's in your iPhone? Let others know.

Well, let's see, I have more than 80+ apps including:

But that's not the cool thing about this post. I accidently took a screenshot of my iPhone page and couldn't figure out how I did it. (After playing around a bit more, I figured it out - of course, I… Continue

Added by John Costilla on October 6, 2008 at 8:42am — No Comments

iPhone Happy: Trick or Treat

Today we went to the great "Pumpkin Express." It was both a trick and a treat.

Trick - I wanted to stay home and watch the Texas Tech v.… Continue

Added by John Costilla on October 4, 2008 at 9:07pm — No Comments

Cell phones for education purposes?

I recently came across a really good post by Steve Dembo (Teach42) titled: My cell phone can beat up your laptop." It's a great write-up about his most recent cell phone (no plug for the Nokia N95) and the many applications for both teachers and students. In the process, he explores the many many applications for cell phones in the classroom. I was fascinated by the brief… Continue

Added by John Costilla on October 3, 2008 at 10:00am — 4 Comments