http://vision.edublogs.org Another excellent Edublogs.org blog Fri, 11 May 2007 02:44:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en     Yesterday I wrote about the TED Talks, how inspiring they were, how the Encyclopedia of Life got jumpstarted there, and how I was thinking we should begin an innovation group at our campus. Then tonight, I read on think:lab that a group of education folks have been quietly planning a world ... http://vision.edublogs.org/2007/05/10/innovation-and-education/ Interesting new video from Cool Cat blogger Vicki Davis: [youtube]CNVFuPJyN1Y[/youtube] http://vision.edublogs.org/2007/03/25/why-we-should-teach-technology/ Norman Morgan emailed this video which I had seen floating around the blogs recently, and it seemed fitting to share it on our technology committee's website as a vision of how the new interactivity of the web is changing our culture. It was created by a Kansas State professor of Digital ... http://vision.edublogs.org/2007/03/23/we-are-web-20/ Our technology subcommittee met last week to work on our technology initiative, which we're calling "WHS 2.1."   (Meaning both 21st century and one step beyond web 2.0.) Our chairperson(and student) Christina Chang defines web 2.0 in our planning document: "Web 2.0 provides the ability for students and educators to connect, share, and publish ... http://vision.edublogs.org/2007/03/11/ideas-converging/ This post is by a guest poster--Vicky Abney--who writes about Facebook. In recent conversations, the site visits team discussed Facebook and the phenomenon sweeping the planet with this online social network that EVERYONE under 25 is addicted to.  So, I went to the site ... but what intrigued me was the ... http://vision.edublogs.org/2007/03/08/facebook-unveiled/ I can see details of Daniel Pink's book Whole New Mind playing out when I read this article in today's New York Times about amateur video creators being paid for the popularity of their videos. A number of video sites now pay contributors if their video ends up getting viewed a certain ... http://vision.edublogs.org/2007/02/15/on-the-world-stage/ Microsoft Cozi.com has a new "social networking" tool aimed at parents and families. Cozi.com has a calendaring feature, online shopping list, contacting family feature and photo screen savers. (similar to the tools in Google, but much more easily accessible). You can even message your family members via their phones, pda's or email. Google tools ... http://vision.edublogs.org/2007/02/13/high-tech-for-parents/ We've been discussing a slogan for our technology initiative. On the blog Dangerously Irrelevant, I read this excellent comment about that, which makes me think we should work on this idea. In their acclaimed book, Built to Last, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras note that visionary companies set Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals ... http://vision.edublogs.org/2007/01/25/what-is-our-bhag/ Today several of us attended a business fair at the University of Texas, put on by Linda Cleveland's business class. Students had to research an invention, be sure it wasn't patented, create a template and business plan, and create a marketing booth to sell the product at the business fair.  Some ... http://vision.edublogs.org/2006/12/06/inventive-students/ In his article, Teaching Tech Literacy to the MySpace Generation, Christopher Huen comments: "In an era in which kids download music, publish their own blogs, and gossip via instant messages—all while juggling a treasure chest of electronic gadgets—the idea that schools should be teaching them to be technology literate seems almost ... http://vision.edublogs.org/2006/12/02/info-literacy/