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Has Google Been Googled by Facebook??

Google is and has been the king of search for years. I remember getting an Google affiliate account for Western Oklahoma State College many years ago when they were just starting their climb to the throne of the Web. As I recall we made...maybe a couple hundred bucks and at that point no one listed them as a verb. Strange how a company name can become part of the fabric of a societies language but it has happened many times with terms such as Kleenex and Xerox. If I use the term… Continue

Added by Kent Brooks on April 30, 2010 at 5:30am — No Comments

Empowerment and Education

Cuzba and Page (1999) say empowerment is a process challenging our assumptions about the way things are and can be. It challenges basic assumptions about power, helping,

achieving, and succeeding. According to

a World Bank (2002) report, the term empowerment has different meanings in

different socio cultural and political contexts, and does not translate easily

into all languages. An exploration of local…

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Added by Kent Brooks on April 26, 2010 at 11:29pm — No Comments

Update April 2011- Tebowisms--When Google can't find something, it asks Tim Tebow for help.

Thanks to Johnny Jameson who introduced me to this clip.  It is now officially my favorite YouTube clip of all time. 

 

 

I was just thinking that…

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Added by Kent Brooks on April 26, 2010 at 11:00pm — No Comments

ODLA 2010 The Wee Acorn, Google Wave, Tech Trends, Build your own LMS Notes? Putting Learning in Students pockets

I was just thinking that as President of the Oklahoma Distance Learning Association I get the opportunity to meet lots of very creative people. During the introductions at the conference I had the opportunity to take this pic with 3 of my favorite Oklahoma Technologists: Left to Right: James Deaton CTO at OneNet,(and author of the Wander Tech Blog) Myself, Lance Ford,… Continue

Added by Kent Brooks on April 23, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

Sitepal for Education

Sitepal provides a great solution for delivering content via avatars.



Added by Kent Brooks on April 16, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

The Buffalo Commons, Technological Regeneration and My America

I was just thinking that one of the things I have become since going to work at Western Oklahoma State College is an accidental grant writer. I have been fortunate to write and fund several USDA Distance Learning and Telemedicine grants all over the Country. The text below is basically the tale we tell for each and every project. Essentially our projects are rural, poor and we weave a… Continue

Added by Kent Brooks on April 6, 2010 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Communicating Effectively: More Digital Story Telling

I was just thinking as I am getting ready to teach class tonight that the traditional presentation software such as Power point is out of vogue a little bit. We are ultimately talking about communication and the tools for creating effective communication have improved so much in the past five years. The basic slide show can easily be enhanced with tools such as Prezi See a sample Prezi below:…



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Added by Kent Brooks on April 6, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Digital Story Telling, the Power of Oral History and 50 Great Web Based Story Telling Tools

I was just thinking that Digitial Story Telling is one of my favorite applications of Web 2.0 technology tools. I am a big fan of Microsoft Photo Story and have participated actively as a learner and a teacher in the Celebrate Oklahoma Voices project. I have a passion for using free or open source technology tools as well as saving the oral histories that… Continue

Added by Kent Brooks on April 6, 2010 at 1:33pm — No Comments

Google's? Topeka's? April Fools Shenanigans

I was just thinking that I always look forward to the Google's April Fools Gimmickry. They are always funny. This year in an effort to promote an initiative to get super high bandwidth to municipalities who are chosen as test sites by Google. Topeka Kansas changed it name to Google in an effort to gain Google's attention and… Continue

Added by Kent Brooks on April 1, 2010 at 8:48am — No Comments

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