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My students at Azusa Pacific University are reading Gary Vaynerchuk’s book Crush It! Here’s Gary’s thoughts on how Crush It applies to education: I’d love to hear your take on how Gary views teachers and social media.

I was just listening to an old Lagwagon album, and it got me thinking about producing quality media. If you surround yourself with poor quality, you tend to create things with poor quality. If you surround yourself with the best, you tend to make the best. Here are few examples, rants, metaphors for you… Great Things All Around In the 90s, my cd ...

SlideShare enables you to easily upload and share your PowerPoint presentations. Watch this tutorial and learn how to upload presentations, add YouTube videos to the presentations, and add that link to BlackBoard.

Today is the first full day of the 2010 Mississippi Educational Computing Association (MECA) Conference. The temperature dropped below 40 degrees overnight, so it is cold outside today (The conference site is 2 blocks from the hotel). I know this isn’t all that cold to many of you, but the temperature combined with the biting [...]

I’m excited to be working with educators in Mississippi this week. I grew up in Mississippi and still consider it “home.” I’m teaching/ sharing 5 workshops and presentations here are the the 2010 Mississippi Educational Computing Association Conference (MECA). Day 1 of the conference included afternoon sessions and activities in the hall of ...

I had the opportunity to watch Digital_Nation today on Frontline. I just jotted these three books that were mentioned. If I can get through these three books before the end of the summer, I will definitely have to reward myself or just have a personal celebration. Cyberia Douglas Rushkoff The Dumbest Generation Mark Bauerlain The Flickering ...

Dependency… if is not with oil, it seems that our world would not be the same without it being plugged in. I will watch this show tomorrow to see how obsessed we have become with technology. Don’t get me wrong, I am a hawk when it comes to technology. However as I get older, I am starting [...]

THINKING OUT LOUD Episode 007 Listen! Related PostsAudioBoo in the Classroom (Thinking Out Loud #3) Announcing “Thinking Out Loud” What Is Your Aim for Classrooms? Mobile Devices in the Classroom (Thinking Out Loud #4)

I taught a professional development workshop this afternoon in which we kicked-off an ongoing conversation about Instructional Design in the Digital Age. This was the first workshop in a two year project with the Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering — a 6th-12th grade charter school with a high school 1:1 laptop program. The primary [...]

Reaching All Learners: The event for forward-thinking education and IT leaders Monday, February 8, 2010 9:00 AM – 2:30 PM The University of Memphis, FedEx Institute of Technology At this interactive event, you will have the opportunity to experience a digital learning environment first hand and see how Apple technologies can help you meet the ...