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Technology Where you Are

I have posted the podcast that was made last week on "Technology Where You Are."

As you may recall, this was an experiment with Skypecasting.

Four participants took part.

Places:
Australia, Kansas, Texas

The podcast is 48 minutes and pretty interesting.

Here it is:

Enjoy,
Tim

Added by Tim Holt on September 11, 2007 at 8:08am — No Comments

Digital El Paso Project

I have recently posted two podcast on my Bytespeed website regarding El Paso Texas' attempt to create a public wifi network.

I spoke with two of the major players, who discuss how EL Paso is doing it, what are the obstacles, and how they plan to over come them.

The El Paso project is interesting because it differs from most public wifi projects in a number of significant ways.

Check… Continue

Added by Tim Holt on September 7, 2007 at 10:22am — No Comments

#81

Last November I began my Byte Speed website,

I had never blogged before. I had never podcast before. But I wanted to show my team that if I could set up an ed tech website, anyone could.

So I started. And, even though I have no idea who reads me, or how many people visit a particular post ( a peculiarity of the program iWeb I am afraid, not the unwillingness of the author) I have, I think, put together at least a moderatly interesting site.

So tonight, I posted another… Continue

Added by Tim Holt on September 3, 2007 at 2:00pm — 4 Comments

Steve Hargadon podcast

Steve Hargadon and I had a very nice conversation about Classroom 2.0.
Of course, it became a podcast.

Here it is:

Steve Hargedon and Classroom 2.0

I hope you enjoy.
Tim

Added by Tim Holt on September 1, 2007 at 3:12pm — No Comments

Art Snacks Podcast posted

Tim Holt talks to Kevin Honetycutt about his ning site "Art Snacks"

Art Snacks is a site where teachers and students can come together in a safe atmosphere to learn how to do art projects.

Kevin talks about how these art projects are all integrated with science, math and social studies.…

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Added by Tim Holt on August 30, 2007 at 7:02am — No Comments

Podcast/Skype Experiment

Podcast Experiment

Greetings everyone!

I was wondering how many of you would be willing to participate in a podcast experiment that I was contemplating?

What I was thinking of doing was getting a group of my "friends" out here in blog land, having a Skype discussion. The topic of the conversation will be:

"Education Technology Use From Where I Am."

The purpose is to kind of give listeners an idea of what types of Ed Tech are used in different areas… Continue

Added by Tim Holt on August 29, 2007 at 8:37am — 4 Comments

Tacos, Tamales, Technology

Tacos, Tamales, Technology…

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Added by Tim Holt on August 28, 2007 at 12:34pm — No Comments

Seven Deadly Sins of Ed tech

I have finished my 7 deadly sins article.

Here is the start of the article. The entire article is linked below.

"So, as a discussion starter, here are is a list of my “Seven Deadly Sins of Education Technology.”…

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Added by Tim Holt on August 27, 2007 at 6:22pm — No Comments

Insert $9.99 for Video

From my latest Blog Entry on Byte Speed.

"I don’t think we do any type preparation for things like that. We love to show kids the benefits of technology, and how wonderful it is, but we rarely show them the downside. We show them how the Internet…

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Added by Tim Holt on August 22, 2007 at 5:39pm — No Comments

Commercially yours

I have noticed a trend, probably because You Tube makes it easy to do, of adding commercials into keynotes, staff developments, presentations,

etc.

For instance, I have added Apple's classic "Think Different" commercial in a variety of trainings over the years.

Recently, my Superintendent added an ad into a presentation to administrators about constructing an airplane in flight.

I have also seen the famous "Elevator" comercial… Continue

Added by Tim Holt on August 22, 2007 at 8:25am — No Comments

Adding Value to Student Learning

This blog entry originally appeared on my Byte Speed Blog Site on April 30, 2007. Enjoy.

ADDING VALUE TO STUDENT LEARNING

About a year ago, there were a series of inservices in my district from a company called INOVA. This company was hired to help the district teach teachers how to look at data in a more meaningful way. While the… Continue

Added by Tim Holt on August 22, 2007 at 8:23am — No Comments

Incredible Deal From Apple in iLIfe and iWork 08 Suites

As first posted on my blog (IF you subscribed you would have had this by now...):

Really Cheap SOB Trick of the Week…

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Added by Tim Holt on August 14, 2007 at 8:24am — No Comments

Repetitive Technology Syndrome

This entry first appeared in my Byte Speed blog on January 2, 2007:

http://web.mac.com/timholt/iWeb/Byte%20Speed/Tim%27s%20Blog/B12E195D-7014-447A-988C-12E9EBECBAB8.html

"In fact, one of the saddest but most common conditions in elementary school computer labs (when they exist in the developing world), is the children are being trained to use Word, Excel and PowerPoint," Negroponte wrote in an e-mail interview. "I consider that criminal, because children should be making… Continue

Added by Tim Holt on August 6, 2007 at 8:17am — No Comments

Jazz Up your Clurriculum Podcast

Hi everyone.

Sorry I have been so quiet. Summer vacations, kidney stones, kids with broken wrists...it has been quite a summer.

Anyway, will be getting going soon. In the meantime, here is a podcast on a really cool program called "Jazz Up Your Curriculum With Video Conferencing"

Here is the podcast:

http://web.mac.com/timholt/iWeb/Byte%20Speed/Pod%20Speed/EC05FADD-7486-41FE-B633-701E73A076D6.html

The podcast is a reflection session with the ten… Continue

Added by Tim Holt on August 6, 2007 at 8:09am — 1 Comment

Digital Students at Analog Schools

Check out this really cool video

Added by Tim Holt on July 30, 2007 at 5:46pm — 1 Comment

NECC 2007 Podcasts Roundup

I am currently compiling a list of Podcasts from NECC 2007.

Here is where they are.

http://web.mac.com/timholt/iWeb/Byte%20Speed/Tim%27s%20Blog/B200A00F-693B-4A44-BDB8-7D502B46CAE3.html

If you know of some that I missed, please add to the list. Hopefully this can… Continue

Added by Tim Holt on July 2, 2007 at 10:15pm — No Comments

NECC Stuff

I have added some entries on my other site about NECC:

A podcast asking the question: "Why is Ed Tech Important?"

A Podcast on Nettrekker and the 21st century skills

A podcast about "River City" online MUE game for middle school science

A podcast on the National Center for Women in Information and Technology

A podcast asking people to reflect on NECC

Podcast are… Continue

Added by Tim Holt on July 1, 2007 at 10:00am — No Comments

It is ALMOST an iPhone

“It’s ALMOST like an iPhone”…

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Added by Tim Holt on July 1, 2007 at 9:53am — No Comments

Who is invited to the buffet?

I recently posted an article based on the question I asked in the Forum about "Who are You?"

Here is the opening.

If you would like to read it all, check it out on my Byte Speed Blog site.

Enjoy.

Tim…

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Added by Tim Holt on June 16, 2007 at 9:21am — 3 Comments

Celebrating the Yugo Blog Entry

Just added a blog entry called "Celebrating the Yugo" over at my other site.
(Look on the left side of the page for the feed)

Anyway, I appreciate the feedbackfor all of my writings.
If you have a chance to read it. please do.
Thanks

Tim

Added by Tim Holt on June 11, 2007 at 10:09pm — No Comments