Hi everyone!
Could you please go to my Forum section (Left side of page, below the videos) and answert the survey I have: Who are You?
Thanks
Tim

Hi guys!
I just posted a Podcast called "Lunch with Ed TEch trainers"
My district just happened to have two ed tech trainers in town (One from Apple and one from Learning.com) so I took them out to lunch and recorded the conversation.
Listen to us munch on tostadas. Listen to us order food.
Listen to the waitress ask us for more tea...
Oh, and we talked a lot about how we train teachers about ed tech.

A really cool conversation. About 40 minutes long.

Join us for lunch. You have to pay your own however, I don't have enough $$ to feed y'all.


The link is here:

http://web.mac.com/timholt/iWeb/Byte%20Speed/Pod%20Speed/6E909905-BD80-40FB-B18B-349E984A014F.html

Hi guys!
Check out my post: The Zealots are the Leaders by clicking on the link to the left...

Tim - Thanks for the invite.
Marcia

Great stuff...Thanks for the invite!

Just posted a new podcast on my Byte Speed site: Talk with Frankie Jackson regarding the new TASBO (Texas Assoc. of School Business Officers) certification training for technology directors.

Check it out when you have a chance.

tinyurl.com/vp9ta
Click on the podcast link

Also on the iTunes Music store

I am back from ATL and NECC.

What a great convention.
What a horrible way to travel. (3 cancelled flights, 3 changed airlines, one night sleeping in an airport, one day staying over in ATL...)

Anyway, posted some NECC thinks on my other site, and I posted above what they are.

Enjoy.

I added your website of blogs and podcasting to my favorites. Lots of great stuff there. Keep it coming.

I recently posted two podcasts on my blog site; One was on a cool video conferencing class called "Jazz Up your Curriculum" and another on the Intel Teach to the Future class.

www.tinyurl.com/vp9ta

click on Podcasts

hi Tim, I subscribed to your blog - super! I am glad I happened to read your posts this evening... reading what other people see as edtech sins provided a nice boost at the end of a rather tedious day! I may not have been superproductive but at least I was not a sinner! ha ha.

Laura, thanks!
I hope you can get something out of it. The Deadly Sins entry will be there first...

Please share with your peers...

Tim

Tim, I have commented on your post, but also transferred it to Nextgen... I'll be sure to forward the responses to you.

My mother says check out Fun and Exciting Stuff
mrpotter.edublogs.org

That mom of mine! I can't control her!
Tim

Tim I did get your TAG note....fun...
I was happy to learn that you are an X science teacher.....I was one too. Also that you were Pres of TSTA...wow...once I was Pres. of Intergrated Science Teacher of Texas........
But here I am a director.........of technology ...how did that happen?

Podcast Experiment

Greetings everyone!

I was wondering how many of you would be willing to participate in a podcast experiment that I was contemplating?

What I was thinking of doing was getting a group of my "friends" out here in blog land, having a Skype discussion. The topic of the conversation will be:

"Education Technology Use From Where I Am."

The purpose is to kind of give listeners an idea of what types of Ed Tech are used in different areas of the country/world.

I also thought that it would be cool if anyone who participated in the call could also record it, then at the end put their own thoughts and post on their site. That way, lots of people looking at the same session could then personalize it.

This will be a Skype Audio Cast which will be recorded and then posted on my Byte Speed website.

The experiment will take place:

Friday September 7, 2007
3:00 PM Mountain Daylight Time (UTC-6) to 4:00 PM

(I know that there is no real "best time" for these type of things. Most of you will be in other time zones.)

Prior to that, I will need your Skype name so I can add you to the list.

Anyone game for it?

I hope so. If it works, we can do some amazing discussions that we all can all post as podcasts and then add our own spin. I know a lot of people are looking for podcast material, and this would be a cool way to make a lot of podcast and then personalize.

I know that many of you have been involved with stuff like this before, but it is a first for me, as I add to my list of tricks that I can do in the web 2.0 world.

Tim
El Paso

Karla,
Just adding to my worldwide list of friends!
WELCOME TO MY WORLD!

TIM

Hi guys!
I posted a video of a presentation that I am going to do next week...I condensed the entire hour presentation into 7 minutes. It is in the beta phase, still have some kinks to work out..but I appreciate your feedback on it.

It is called T&L@2k+7: Teaching and Learning at 2007

Tim

Thanks Tim. I ran my laptop out of battery and lost my version! :( I hate failing laptop batteries!

Since we'll be flickr exhibitionists together, I want to say HI.

Hi Julianne!
Of course !

Okay everyone!
I have just added Clustermaps to my Byte Speed Website, and I think it is the coolest thing. For those not familiar with it, the map essentially MAPS everywhere a site gets a "hit" from, and places it on a map.

So, because I just love looking at this, I was wondering if you all could do me a favor:

Could you click on

www.tinyurl.com/vp9ta

so I can see the little dots grow on the map?

I know, this is purely egotistical. You don't even have to explore the site. Just go to the first page...

I want to see your dot!

Thanks everyone for indulging me!

Tim

Have you ever heard of a Highly Qualified Computer?
The state of Texas has. And probably your state as well.
Join the Highly Qualified Computer Conversation at:

http://web.mac.com/timholt/Byte_Speed/Tims_Blog/Tims_Blog.html

I have been experimenting with Voicethread.com.
HEre is my first effort. I know it isn't "education" per se, but it kind of shows my other passion in life, photography.

http://voicethread.com/view.php?b=9279

LEt me know what you think.

I am at a very small Christian school in Kansas City, KS. and I just finished my first quarter teaching. I am the computer lab teacher as well as the Spanish, and P.E. teacher. I am also responsible for keeping the computer lab and all the teachers computers up and running, and the server in tip top shape.
Now that I have cried a river, let me tell you what I can use your input on. I teach K-8th grade. I have things to keep the little ones busy the K-4th. That leaves me with 5th-8th I know that I wanted to teach them word, PowerPoint, and excel. I think I can handle that without a text book or curriculum. The way in which I want to go about it is where I can use some direction.
The lab here is out dated, so I thought how can I kill 2 birds with one stone? I have equipment that doesn't work or needs to be replaced, and 50 kids that need to learn word, PowerPoint, and excel. Hmmm, I could ask for a curriculum, give them some commands, tell them to commit them to memory, give a quiz, and then a test. Or I can find a way to give them real world experience with Microsoft office tools. Hmmm, how can I do this and update the lab? I went to a work shop on proposal writing, you know so I could update the lab. Well as you can see from the first paragraph I don't have enough to do. Sooo, why not start writing proposals too?
But then after my proposal work shop it hit me, let the kids write the proposals. Am I crazy? What government agency or foundation will accept a proposal from some middle school and grade school kids? And the 5th and 6th graders. I mean really, I'm I just nuts?
So here's the plan and you can tell me if "I'm just nuts". Let me remind you "THIS IS MY FIRST YEAR TEACHING", so feel free to smack me around a bit and point me in the right direction. We are going to start small we will use "word" to make an outline. They will visualize a dart board. We will start with the center and work our way out. The center will be mom, dad, and other family and close family friends. From there we will ask the inner circle to tell us were they work. How open would their employers be at helping us. This will start the 2nd ring of our target buy letting them know if there business or employers have widgets, computers, money, and services, they could donate. They will keep track of the budget and goals in excel. The next circle in the target will be for them to research local companies. The last circle will be anything they choose outside of the local business area. We are hoping that some of the local companies will allow them to present PowerPoint’s. Buy them we will have identified their strengths, the leaders, researchers, spokesmen and number crunchers. And with corporate precision we will make presentations. Well that's the plan. Can you help me make it work?

Ever wanted to mess with someone's keynote address? I did and probably will make David Warlick mad. See it before I get into trouble.

Here it is:
http://web.mac.com/timholt/Byte_Speed/Tims_Blog/Entries/2007/10/30_K12_Online_Keynote...The_6-Minute_Version.html#

I added the David Warlick Readers Digest version to the video section. Enjoy.

I hope David has a sense of humor.

No Whine Left Behind:

http://snipurl.com/nowhine

Video is the language of the new millennium.


I have started a new site called “Vid Snacks” which is an take off on Kevin Honeycutt’s Art Snacks site.


Essentially, I hope that this site will be used to help students and teachers begin to view video content creation in much the same way that we look at writing now.


There will be short “How To” videos on video.

There will be sample videos.


Eventually, I am hoping that students will create content and upload it to the site, where teachers can critique and can help students. No content will be longer than 5 minutes.


Short and sweet.

All videos will be vetted.

No one will be allowed to upload any inappropriate content.


I need your help.


I can’t create all of the content here.

I will need help critiquing kids work.

I will need help encouraging kids to upload.


Video is not as popular yet as art or photography, but it is going to be.


Let’s begin the video revolution here.


www.vidsnacks.ning.com

Thanks. I'm not sure how you managed to drive and record that webcast, but I enjoyed listening to it. Videos are so much easier to upload now than they were years ago. It's great!

Dear TCEA member,


On Thursday night Congress votes on overriding the President's veto of education spending. Now is the time to make your voice heard.


Action: This Thursday night, the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on overriding the President's veto of the FY08 Labor, HHS and Education Appropriations bill, which contains $272 million for Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program. The Senate may vote soon, as well. Please email your Senators and Representatives immediately and urge them to override the President's veto and support passage of the FY08 Labor, HHS and Education spending bill. Click here to send e-mails.


Background: The House and the Senate approved a final, compromise Labor, HHS and Education spending bill last week. The final, conferenced bill contains level funding of $272 million for EETT-a victory for education technology advocates. On Tuesday, the President vetoed the final version of the Labor, HHS and Education spending bill because it exceeds his budget proposals by nearly $11 billion. This action imperils EETT funding. The House and Senate need a two-thirds majority vote in order to override the President's veto and enact this appropriations legislation. This may be our last chance to ensure adequate education technology money in 2008!


Please write your congressional representatives and ask them to override the President's veto of the Labor-HHS and Education bill. Let Congress know the deep impact this funding has on the day-to-day lives of our nation's students and teachers.


My thanks to CoSN and ISTE for sponsoring the Ed Tech Action Network.


Thanks,


Ron Cravey

Executive Director

Texas Computer Education Association

cravey@tcea.org

No Tim I haven't joined www.vidsnacks.ning.com yet, I'll have to take a look into it.

Thanks!

Sean M.

Quick note:
My Blog Site Byte Speed has a new name and URL:
The new name is :
Intended Consequences
I am now at
www.snipurl.com/ic

If you subscribe to my feeds, please go there and resubscribe.
Thanks
TBH

Hi everyone. I need your help again.
I was asked to switch the name and the location of my Byte Speed website...(Dont ask, it involved lawyers). Anyway, I was wondering if every one of my friends here on Classroom 20 could click onto my new site and give it a whirl? I am changed the look and feel, but I have a feeling I missed a few thing.

Can you check and please give me feedback?

www,snipurl.com/ic

Thanks
Tim

Hi guys. Posted two blog entries regarding two podcasts on my website that I thought you might find interesting.

Enjoy

Tim

I like your idea of asking the "Why" of Educational Technology.

I have a long series of newsletter articles on the problems of not asking this question, especially as it relates to Open Source and the "Failed" Technology Integration (Glacial) Movement."

I suppose that I wrote those articles because of so many "Flames" from the Open Source Zealots, but those folks don't have a clue that education is about teaching...and that teaching is about measurable student outcomes.

Those folks also haven't figured out that when you ask the "Why" question, and forget about technology, think about "Educational Tool," then the Mac becomes the clear choice.

If you would like a bibliography list and links to my newsletter articles, please let me know.

Continue with this vein of "tell it like it is" thinking. Answering this question is at lease a decade overdue.

Have an interesting podcast with Dr. Frederick Hess from theAmerican Interprise Institute. He is the principal author of "Still at Risk: What 17 years olds know"

Interesting listening. About 20 minutes. I hope you all can take a listen.

www.snipurl.com/ic

click on "Podcast"

Hi Jim!
Welcome to my world.
Check out my blog www.snipurl.com/ic

Hi Tim,
I was reading information you have on technology in our schools. I am meeting with our district IT person on Tuesday afternoon. I am so green when it comes to technology. I never thought I would be doing as much as I am doing on the computer. My CALL537 class has more than stretched my horizons. I find myself getting very frustrated when I prepare something for my students and then we can't use it because of the filters. I feel that I need to build a good relationship with our IT person. So.... I will go in Tuesday with a few requests and questions. Hopefully, over time I will be able to use materials that I want to use.
Thank you and have a great weekend,
Cynthia
P.S. I know that I only know a few of the 100's of things that could be used in my classroom.

I was unable to view the letter on your Blog.

Maybe this was the same message that I received, but didn't bother to read.

My comment is that the voices saying that Ed Tech funding is off base have always been there...especially in the silence of teachers who were afraid to speak out against the wasted expenditure on Ed Tech.

Not that the equipment that was purchased wasn't quality, but that the equipment reached old age and hung around as senile equipment for years past its refresh time...underused.

The problem is that Ed Tech folks never bothered to show...

* How we can increase student achievement with this stuff
* How we can measure that increase
or,
* How this stuff decreases the amount of work that teachers have to do

In addition, the technology budgets were out of whack!

Too little funding was allocated for identifying exactly what technology integration would produce, and too little funding went to show exactly what gains student made in learning that they could only have made by using the technology.

Too little funding was allocated for teacher professional development, and almost nothing was allocated for building the back-end infrastructure and programming that would automate technology use by teachers and students.

In short, until definitive, replicable student achievement; directly related to technology produces measureable curricular content area results...attributable to technology...there will always be murmuring.

And teachers will address these issues in silence, and in stonewalling the extra work that integrating the technology takes...work they undertake without an expectation that students will learn more by using the technology.

I address some of these issues in an upcoming newsletter article, and I intend to address them further at NECC Open Source programs.

I also have a set of online Technology Integration Web links pointing to the reasons for the "Failed Technology Integration" history that we anguish over.

Check out:

http://www.edubloggercon.com/NECC+2008

When you figure out Twitter, let me know.

Sharon

C'mon, succumb to peer pressure....
Sylvia (follow me here!)

You saw... I follow you!

Thank you for invite! I´m in!
:-)

Hi Tim,
You made me chuckle.
Thank you.
Nellie

Tim: Thank you for sending out the link re: the Texas Virtual School Network. I made it to the 20 min mark (I assume, since there is no time stamp on the vid) and found myself struggling to remain interested. The vast majority of their talking points (i.e. bullet points) could have been sent out as a 2-5 page PDF...and they could have done a 5-10 min video that actually put some energy into 'selling' the program. The video is void of any effort to engage the audience or show what the courses/portals even look like. Was 57 min of a video really necessary? Do you -- from your professional seat -- think this video/launch was a success? Again, thank you for keeping me in the loop...but I am hoping that the state will do a deep-think as to the value of hour long videos if this is what they envision will be the outcome.

I agree...
But since this was a statewide presentation...I just thought I would put out what was presented..

grin

Hi there! This shari from Sony - I am working on project involving video and technology in K-12. I would love to hear how your district is integrating video production into curriculum with students and teachers both using the tools.

Tim,
I went to your blog about the Digital Equity Interview: Bonnie Bracey. The pages come up with just the comments, no blog text. I hit reload and got the same thing. Hummm....

-Alix

Alix, try again...let it load a second...

Seems to work here..
TBH

Hi Tim,

Since you are involved in virtual education you should check out wiZiQ's virtual classroom.