1105 PHXCC(3)228, originally uploaded by nooccar. Blog post here.

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Technology Is Not Technology, originally uploaded by lgb06. Think about this quote in terms of your own technology evolution. How can we call something technology if it was always a part of our lives? Nothing is new and we knew nothing different than living with that product, concept, idea, tool.

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ipadinit, originally uploaded by nooccar. I’d never really understood the iPad. I knew I could play games, read some online news sites, handed it over to my kid who would play educational games on it, etc… but suddenly I realized the real purpose. I carry it with all of my research reading on it and [...]

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365-44 (Feb 13), originally uploaded by nooccar. Dusk had just fallen in the desert. Low clouds rolled through the sky in my yard as a I made this photograh. It was a fluke that I saw this in B&W. I meant to process this in colour, but I pressed some button incorrectly and saw it [...]

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Today at Arizona English Teacher’s Association Frank Beddor, the author of The Looking Glass Wars, and PJ Haarsma, the author of The Softwire Series, are discussing their books in a keynote entitled “Something funny happened on the way to becoming an author”. The two men have been friends from before they became authors and told [...]

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Session: The New Arizona Education Technology Plan from Cathy Poplin, Deputy Associate Superintendent for Educational Technology, Arizona Department of Education. We’re reviewing the ADE recommendations, “Transforming Education: Enabling Learning for All Arizona Students, The AZ Long-Range Strategic Educational Technology Plan”, for long term tech use in AZ schools. This can be frustrating with schools who [...]

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Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack. 1958 – Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack. 2008 – School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees [...]

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Gmail Video Chat, originally uploaded by nooccar. Yesterday I received a message that Gmail now had video and audio chat. I immediately told everyone about it, and I was completely excited. The videos all say to just open a chat through Gmail and click on Video & More, but you know what? You gotta install [...]

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podcampaz panel, originally uploaded by nooccar. For some reason my connection keeps dropping, hence the reason I am not Covering It Live. Sorry. Looks like this is gonna be a panel session with iJustine, Iboughtamac (Brent), Clintus & Chris Pirillo. They just opened up questions. A 13 yr old is here, and he’s asking questions. [...]

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