One weekend, my grandmother asked me to go to the store and get some mustard for her. I wanted to get the best mustard for her, so I tried to clarify what exactly she meant by mustard. “Mammaw, do you want coarse ground, spicy brown, Cajun-style, Creole, Dijon? What kind of mustard do you want? [...]

As I am working on program documents and teacher materials, I am analyzing all of it through the lens of best practice and research supported strategies. I continue to maintain that the “cool” and “wow” factors only get technologists so far with classroom teachers. When we can support what they are required to teach with [...]

One of my core beliefs about learning is that we learn by doing. I prefer active video conference sessions where students are interacting with the content or another class and I think this list would be helpful to content providers and teachers to engage the students more. Remember, all learning structures do not work for [...]

Be patient. This little widget is working hard to grab all the tweets and pics from our first IVC Playground. We had a great time sharing our enthusiasm and passion for video conferencing. Many thanks to all the helping hands and staff from zoos, museums, and other organizations that made this a smashing success. We [...]

I began ISTE on Sunday teaching a 3-hour workshop on our “Novel in an Hour” project. Christina and Rich Hum from Kigluait Educational Adventures in Talkeetna, Alaska co-taught the session with me. The goals of the session were for participants to experience Skype and H.323 video conferencing and learn how to use a wiki and [...]

This year, I had the opportunity to lead the team to develop and manage the Interactive Video Conference Playground at ISTE10 in Denver. It was a great honor for me. The Pirate Crew was Janine Lim, Audra May, Lori Colwill, and Anne Marie Millar with the superb technical support from Paul Heironymus, Shane Howard, and [...]