Adult Education and Technology

I'm attending the OTAN Technology and Distance Learning Symposium for the first time in a few years. This year is the 30th anniversary o...

I did a fun workshop at the CCAE Conference in Fresno on Using Your Mobile Device to Be More Productive, short name, Apps for Administ...

What topics, up to 60 seconds, could your students create Vokis about?

The grocery industry tried online shopping and delivering groceries, and it didn't pan out. But this idea by a Korean grocery seems to ...

Great presentation by Geoff Stead at the mobile learning conference, mLearnCon , about learning via cell phone worldwide. m-learning acros...

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This article by James Gee on the Huffington Post suggests that there are two classes of literacy - basic literacy that ends you up in a work...

I was reading an ePortfolio of a midwife and teacher in New Zealand, Sarah Stewart, which I ran across through a discussion on LinkedIn. I...

A lot of interesting discussion going on now about mobile learning. What's the difference between c-learning, e-learning, and m-learnin...

Jeff Thomas raises a good point - there is so much video online, but it's not always easy to find the video you want. Just searching on...

I see that Google has been busy creating new features for Blogger, which is good because I've been frustrated with the layout of my blo...

Here are ISTE's top three ed tech policy priorities for this year: 1. Dedicated funding for educational technology (support the contin...

Love this slide show from NYT. Sadly, I remember all of these from the chalk board, invented in 1890. But the most nostalgic is that rasty ...

This video by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce ( RSA ), creates a visual representation of a 12 mi...

Susan Gaer's ESL class at Santa Ana College Continuing Education made this video encouraging people to vote! It's part of a contest...

Exploring fb for education - a wiki dedicated to this topic, with a page of videos of teachers talking about their fb projects. One popular ...

It's been a while since I've had time to follow a bunny trail. That is not good! We need time to let our curiosity take us down a pa...

I'm creating a course called OTAN on HootCourse . The hashtag is #otanhoot. It's a great idea to create an interface that helps tea...

The Department of Education releases the National Educational Technology Plan, and Karen Cator reviews it at this summit meeting. It still...

This is a vision of how screen technology will be working by 2014, by a company that does user interface.

Peggy Marcy suggested this site, Storybird. You can create a story using art from various artists. There are many story creation sites, but ...

I'm preparing for a discussion at the Project IDEAL conference tomorrow about social media tools. All I need to do at this point is add...

Learning so many cool things on the Social Media discussion. Here's a video message left for the group from Steve Quann using Eyejot.

The discussion of social media for teaching a professional development in adult education is going strong this week! (Thank you, Jackie Tayl...

Brenda Dann-Messier, Assistant Secretary of Education at the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, at the CASAS Summer Institute - 6 poi...

Just demonstrating to workshop participants how easy it is to upload a photo from phone to blog. We also talked about wikis, QR codes, mobil...

I can't resist posting this alphabet of adult literacy instruction provided by researcher and adult literacy advocate Tom Stitch. ABC...

I'm getting ready for the CATESOL state conference in Santa Clara on 4/23-25, and hoping there will be good attendance! There will be t...

Steve Hargadon interviewed Sir Ken Robinson last night on Elluminate, with over 400 people (mostly educators) in attendance from all over ...

Last year I was the lonely tweeter at the COABE conference. This year, and the combined COABE/Proliteracy conference there were at least 10 ...

Next year, 2010-11, is not looking good for adult education in California. This is the second year that adult education has been in Tier 3 o...

Here are three funding opportunities I learned about at the COABE/Proliteracy conference in Chicago: 1. Adult Numeracy Instruction Professio...

Just listened to Steve Hargadon interview Daniel Pink about his new book, Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us . There were o...

An example of what can be done with media - wow!

I attended this event at Virginia Commonwealth University a couple of weeks ago, convening a group of adult education practitioners and rese...

Dennis Porter sent me this amazing video about work happening at MIT to merge computing with the physical world. It's quite mind boggli...

Can't resist this one - to the tune of Candle in the Wind. Thank you, Gina Lobacarro, for posting this on the New Digital World Ning si...

Mlearning seems to be the topic that is getting the focus of ed tech attention these days. Cell phones in the classroom, or no cell phones i...

Information from an mLearning summit in Zambia. A link from the Teachers Without Borders Diigo group sent me to a number of sites abou...

California has created an ABE Initiative, supporting adult education programs to look at different ways to support Adult Basic Skills studen...

This has nothing to do with technology, really, but did you know that Google is now using goats to keep their grass mowed ? That's prett...

I want to write about the COABE conference , (national adult education conference) but for now, I'm just going to comment that there was...

I'm at the CATESOL conference , and it's been a mixture of wonderful conversations and depressing realizations; wonderful because of...

I didn't go to TESOL this year, but got a partial experience of it through blog posts, tweets, and photos people posted on FaceBook. Her...

I found this video by following Stephen Downes on Facebook. It is a 20 minute talk to educators about how to think about Web 2.0, and how to...

You can now see video of Steve Hargadon's presentation at the Symposium , or you can listen to a similar presentation here. This is an ...

I happened upon this presentation AFTER giving 4 workshops at the Technology and Distance Learning Symposium. Good information to remember. ...

This is a session that I didn't get to attend, but they created a wonderful wiki page with descriptions of a variety of video sites, wh...

The first day of the Technology and Distance Learning Symposium went well, despite rain and budget cuts of major proportions. Those who show...

This page lists 21 ways to use new technologies in the classroom to engage learners and make learning more interactive and self-directed. Ea...

Wow, what a momentous day that was! The photos posted by the Boston Globe are really wonderful, showing how people were engaged all over th...

Saw this on Twitter, and it supports a conversation at the CAEAA conference this afternoon about what implications changing technology has f...

I just read an article on Larry Ferlazzo's blog about how to get around your district's blocking of YouTube . This is a problem for ...

Hey, can you tell I'm on vacation? I actually have time to read this article by Kevin Kelly in the NY Times about the ubiquity of video ...

The workshop went well. I spent half the time talking about resources on the OTAN Web site, and there are always plenty of people who haven...

There are lots of funny animal videos online. Here is one with a bunch of cat clips. Any one of these could be a writing prompt for a descri...

I'm putting together some examples for a workshop on using video in the classroom. Here is a classic Abbott and Costello using math. May...

I attended this event on Saturday purely as a participant, which was a nice change. I had time to listen and observe more than I have in the...

My colleague Branka Marceta did a presentation to the staff of the Adult Education Office at the CA Dept of Ed the other day on podcasting i...