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 | | Posted by: Dan Maas | 5/30/2008 | After making my report to the Board of Education via Skype, I spent some time assembling a video of our visits to schools here in China. I am using Windows Movie Maker which is a free and rather basic movide creating tool. It suits my needs since it is the content and not the packaging that is my focus. The latest video is loaded on the district web site HERE. You can see in the video how well the students interacted using combinations of Chinese and English. The energy and instant friendship warms the heart and gives hope for the human race. We are much more alike than we are different. We should remember that not only for our efforts here, but always. | | | Permalink |
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By Charles Wimber on 6/9/2008 | Dan,
Perhaps it would be wise to know the technology tools you took to China and used to send the videos thorough "Teacher Tube." Yes, where you and students (and parents?) transcend time and space.
It is obivous that the folks at Littleton (teachers, students and parents)
have put alot of preparation into using the technology tools used at school and maybe at home. It is good that you have the capacity to accommodate MS, Linux and Mac.
How many places in Colorado do not have the tools and access to make it possible for me to view the blog and the pioneering being done with the trip to China? Especially from the point of view of disasters?
Now something that may be of interest: Best Buy co-operates with the Red Cross and United Way interms of funding projects. I recently visited the Best Buy in Littleton. They have on display the Eee PC and an agent told me it was selling.
As you begin your pilot at LPS, here is a hard fact to be tackled by a civic activity. The conveter boxes from digital to analog seem to have understantable diagrams for hook-up. But set-up is not as easy. Why? It requires the use of a remote which is not so easy. So, I plant this seed:
What if LPS with the United Way, Red Cross and Best Buy could reach out to home bound students, minorities and seniors in terms of making sure the conversion does not isolate folks. This can lead to civic unrest.
Yes, within the boundries of the LPS District.
This conversion comes in winter. You spoke to disasters like in China.
With the energy crisis, credit crisis, a recession and lay-offs could we have an ignored or overlooked disaster? Can you see where knowledgeable LPS students, teachers, parents and even administrators see the need and its consequences when the have nots do not have the financial and hands-on skills to make the conversion requring the use of a remote. l
Take the 12 teachers, classrooms, and students and LPS support staff
as trailblazers. Yes, with a civic activity mapped out from the first day of school for the 2008-2009 school year.
There is something else. What if an after-market system was found in the home of a home-bound student, minority household or senior household? Could LPS pilot students and Best Buy Geek Squad in Littleton do an up-grade and up-date on these systems. And could the pilot teachers, students and even parents with suppor staff make such a
sacrifice. How may churches and small businesses in LPS could have an interest in this? Yes, for networking and on-line learning. "We are much more alike than we are different. Yes, for always.
I hope there will be many more comments on the "School visists video |
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By Charles Wimber on 6/11/2008 | Dan,
Seamless P-20 and On-Line Learning fit the challenges of an energy crisis,
credit crisis and globalizatiion. In the back ground are learning management systems like PLATO. And the basic tool of the Eee PC.
Technology Literacy with equity access for 8th graders has the barrier
where broadband wireless iis not universal in Colorado. And there iis an effort at the FCC to have a "wireless lifeliine" that is free supported by advertizing.
On-line learning and tele-work depend upon a reliable power supply. Now this includes solar, wind and back-up with propane and LNG.
You have spoken to the Governor's P-20 Council. And from looking at your CASE blog is there progress on making P-20 seamless?
What I mean by progress is dealing the the funding inequities that exist
in Colorado. Is CASE the vehicle to bring this fragmention to the Colorado legislature? Like were LPS and ACC are funded to pull together.
Yes, where any classroom of LPS and ACC are part of an Intranet. And where both use the PLATO Learning Management System?
Here is the URL of an article titled: "Is New England Ready for P-2O"
The article is dated Sunday May 4, 2008.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/education/13694/is_new_england_ready_for_p20/
The struggle in this URL article should have meaning for CDE, CCHE, and the Community College System - presented by CASE?
And since you have been to China can you relate as to the efficiency of the goverment in China to win the P-20 seamless battle as a global
competitor or even adversary? Our adversary in the USA is a consumer religion enforced by an entertainment ethic where LPS and ACC deal with
turning consumer electonics products sold as entertainment toys and not as learning, earing, caring and sharing productivity tools.
Again, I mention the disruptive change from analog to digital. Yes, that can trigger an outrage. But more importantly isolation for the have nots.
Some will be violent and others become more withdrawn.
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