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• NYSCATE Open Knowledge Presentation

  November 26, 2009 in open knowledge, presentations

  Slides from my presentation. This is a large QuickTime file, so it will take a minute to load.
  Open Knowledge
  Audio:
  Recording of presentation
  Links:

  Creative Commons Site
  Lessig: The Network We Need Highly A must view presentation
  Flickr Commons (from archives)
  Flickr Creative Commons
  MediaWiki Commons
  Gutenberg Project
  Library of Congress Digital Collection
  Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
  WikiBooks
  Connexions Educational Modules
  Curriki: Collection shared educational resources
  Open [...]

• NYSCATE 09 Housekeeping

  November 23, 2009 in Social Networking

  I just finished Day 2 at the NYSCATE Annual Conference in Rochester, NY. I had a great time presenting twice on topics that I am passionate about and enjoyed all our Keynote speakers. I’ve met some great folks and have had wonderful conversations.
  Plan on an more active blog as I’ll be writing and reflecting more [...]

• NYSED Tech Plan up for comments

  November 1, 2009 in Policies, Technology

  Last April, the New York State Department of Education (NYSED) embarked on an outreach campaign seeking input on their new draft technology plan. They started with a meeting leaders of major professional organizations. They set up a survey on their website and met with educational technology leaders at the NYSCATE leadership summit this summer. As [...]

• FBLA Presentations

  October 7, 2009 in Uncategorized

  I had the privilege of presenting at our school’s Future Business Leaders of America’s District Meeting in Greenwich, NY today. I had a great time presenting and meeting students and faculty. I hope to participate again.
  As promised, I am uploading and displaying the contents of my presentations here.
  There there is a lot of content on [...]

• NYSED Goal 1: Accessible Digital Content

  July 29, 2009 in Policies, Technology

  The NYSED Technology Plan’s first goal addresses digital content:
  Standards-based, accessible digital content supports all curricula for all learners.
  Accessible is defined as: content available anywhere, easy to retrieve using multiple technology devices, and content is universally designed. Aligning digital content to the New York State learning standards is how we will ensure quality and relevance in [...]

• Will NYSED Tweet?

  July 27, 2009 in Policies, Social Networking, Technology

  While I attended the NYSCATE Leadership Summit last week for a variety of reasons, the main motivation was to hear the New York State Education Department’s (NYSED) presentation on their proposed state technology plan. Beyond the presentation there were roundtable discussions to provide input and feedback followed by an opportunity to ask questions.
  When the opportunity to [...]

• BuddyPress installation somewhat simplified

  May 4, 2009 in Social Networking, buddypress, open source

  In honor of the release of BuddyPress 1.0, I trashed my previous installation and created a new one from scratch. The new version of BuddyPress requires WordPressMu 2.7.1 and bbPress 1.0 alpha. The process, while simplified, is still out of the reach of many who are accustomed to the standard, upload, create database, and browser [...]

• Creative Commons Advocate Lessig hit with DMCA take down

  May 2, 2009 in Uncategorized

  Lawrence Lessig, legal scholar and Creative Commons founder was hit with a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) take down notice on a recent presentation on copyright law in the digital age. Lessig writes on his blog:
  Received a notice that Warner Music had objected to its being posted on copyright grounds. Apparently, YouTube’s content-ID algorithm had [...]

• Werdmuller announces new project; keeps other quiet

  April 30, 2009 in Social Networking, Technology

  As promised, former Elgg developer Ben Werdmuller, has announced a new social networking project. He is working on a social mapping project called OutMap. In addition, he is beginning a web consulting service. He alluded to a third project that he is keeping under wraps.
  OutMap appears to be a social geographic information system in which a user [...]

• WPMu & BuddyPress updates

  April 30, 2009 in Elgg, buddypress, wordpress

  WPMu was just updated to a long awaited Version 2.7.1 which has, in turn, triggered events in the BuddyPress realm. The new WPMu version offers a number of important improvements making it a significant improvement. As a consequence, BuddyPress has finally been able to release Version 1.o.
  Upgrading from WPMu 2.7 to 2.7.1 was a cinch. [...]