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April 2009 Blog Posts (8)

Denmark Meets the Great Western Cattle Trail

The Great Western Cattle Trail - also known as the Dodge City Trail and the Old Texas Trail - was utilized from 1874 for the movement of cattle to markets East. The trail began at Bandera, Texas and ended, most often, in Dodge City, Kansas. The entire trail extended from southern Texas to the Canadian border. Between 10 and 12 million cattle were driven north from Texas into Dodge City. It was the western branch of the Chisholm… Continue

Added by Kent Brooks on April 29, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Time and Space and Globalization

I have had the honor over the past few years to see, hear and more importantly get to know a few incredibly gifted educational technologists. A few of those I follow (and swipe ideas from ) regularly because I think they have a great feel for educational technology and even the pulse of culture and society. Jason Cole, author of the Using Moodle book published by OReilly comes to mind for one as his talks are always thought provoking and… Continue

Added by Kent Brooks on April 29, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

99 Modern Uses for Modern Tools of the Web

Wow are there are clever People out there. Look at these:

Twenty Two Interesting Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom

Thirty Nine Interesting Ways to Use Your Pocket Video in the Classroom…

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Added by Kent Brooks on April 27, 2009 at 11:16pm — No Comments

American Exceptionalism, My View My Experience

American Execeptionalism

Many Americans familiar with the phrase "city upon a hill" associate it with verse fourteen of Matthew chapter five of Jesus Sermon on the Mount which more specifically states "...A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden." The use of the "city upon a hill" phrase in American history all point toward some variation of America being a model for the rest of the world. Some of the more famous usages of this phrase include:

1) John Winthrop’s… Continue

Added by Kent Brooks on April 25, 2009 at 5:10pm — 2 Comments

Open Source As a Strategy

According to Waters (2007) "To Vista or not to Vista" was the driving force in a recent conversion from commercial Microsoft Products to open source for a Danville IL school district. Staying with the graphically intensive resource gobbling Windows OS would require a heavy investment in hardware upgrades and would stretch an already tight budget. On the other hand, the latest version of a leading Linux distribution would require few or no hardware upgrades. It would be, essentially, free, with… Continue

Added by Kent Brooks on April 25, 2009 at 12:20am — No Comments

A Positive Spin on Corporate Responsibility

I had the privilege of speaking to the Elgin OK Chamber of Commerce yesterday April 14, 2009. I also had the privilege of speaking on a little different topic than normal. The title of my talk "Is your Web 2.0 Business Plan Smarter than a 5th Grader" is of course a play on a couple of recent technological and/or cultural phenoms. The Elgin Chamber version of this talk was basically a general intro to some Web 2.0 terms, thoughts about technology and how you might start learning about those… Continue

Added by Kent Brooks on April 15, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

Desktop Video Update from Peter Williams

Got a great email today from Peter William of Stewardship Learning on the development of browser based video tools. As I think about this what I think that I think is that companies such as Tandberg and Polycom will hate this and may actually say this not directly competing with what they do. However, I think they should listen to Dr. Jason Coles Distruptive Technolog Talk http://salesdemo.mediasite.com/salesdemo5/Viewer/?peid=47735e8cb55c444aa2bfc3353882a03c He will be the keynote at ODLA next… Continue

Added by Kent Brooks on April 9, 2009 at 12:30am — No Comments

NOTES fromNSU Teaching and Learning Conference 2009

As information goes so go go our organizations

Oklahoma Higher Education Teaching and Learning Conference

George Siemens

April 2, 2009

Dr Don Betz President NSU

Information and Opportunity will be open to Everyone

We have never had as many learners globally as we have now

We can't do this alone

We must have colleagues in and out of the institution.

How do we

gather

organize

synthisize

Key… Continue

Added by Kent Brooks on April 9, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

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