Conversation with PSU students

Conversation with PSU students

I’m wrapping up what will be the last grad course I’ll be teaching at PSU for awhile. Moving to a new country, a new job, and starting some other projects will be keeping me busy for awhile. I’ve really enjoyed teaching the course Teaching & Learning in a Networked Classroom. A course that is ran on an open wiki that […]

Taking control of your school's profile: Where to start

Taking control of your school's profile: Where to start

So I woke up this morning to find that my post last night on school’s taking control of their profiles has started a little conversation. I gave a talk on this topic to educators and administrators at the EARCOS conference in March that scared a few, made a few jump into action, and others left shaking their heads not knowing […]

Schools: Take control or forfeit your profile

Schools: Take control or forfeit your profile

Who is controlling your school’s online profile? In my presentation to educators I usually say: You need to take control of your online presence, because if you don’t…someone else will! Do schools have someone looking after their online profile? Do we need to create a new position in the communication office? I just got done editing my school’s wikipedia entry […]

Fundraising in a Web 2.0 World

Fundraising in a Web 2.0 World

What I truly love about the web is when it takes thing that before seemed hard and difficult and all of a sudden makes them easy. Not only that, but when you are trying to get money and funds into a country that is hard to get into to begin with the web allows you access to people on the […]

Using Twitter to get news on earthquake

Using Twitter to get news on earthquake

I had an idea the other day to use Twitter to get news coming directly from the Sichuan Province. I had just learned about twitterlocal.net a website that will track the twitter users coming from a specific location. So I went to twitterlocal and searched for Sichuan. I took a look at the feed and go figure everything was in […]

Adding Album Art to a podcast

Adding Album Art to a podcast

I’m writing this to share with others as it took me way to long to find the answer on how to do this. I’ve got two podcasts; On Deck and Gourmet Geeks that are syndicated via iTunes (here and here). I noticed that when you download them to your iPod that the Album Art wasn’t coming through so I did […]

Earthquake in China-We're OK

Earthquake in China-We're OK

Just a quick post to let everyone know that we’re doing fine in Shanghai. I just finished talking to EARCOS who is an organization that most international schools belong too. The director there told me he had checked in with all the EARCOS schools in the region and everyone is fine. I have created a quick Google Earth file to […]