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Software and Hardware of Cloud Computing (Lecture) Brian McClendon, Google VP of Egineering Monday November 16, 2009 12:00pm - 1:00pm Nichols Hall, Apollo Room KU alumnus Brian McClendon discussed software and hardware of cloud computing -- incl...

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Rivers are both byways and barriers. To understand history, first understand rivers. Enroute from Council Bluffs to Dragonfly County, I paused to reflect on the cumulative impacts of coaches, mentors and tutors who "passed down the line" their sh...

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Affirmation of INTERdependence ... Know Your Wilderness Inquiry Zones (WIZ) Find more videos like this on Celebrate Oklahoma Voices!

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Geo Education: ... in honor of National Teacher Day, we introduced a new Geo Education web page to help educators learn how they can use Google Earth, Maps, and other tools for many educational topics. Lesson plans and concepts are available fr...

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On Patriot's Day 2008, I began benchmarking Kanzana's Dragonfly County Master Gardener's with this Cleveland County collaboratory crew ...

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I began seeking the elusive "Lost Legends of La Flecha" as collateral duty public affairs officer aboard USS Cimarron (AO-22) during 1967-68. My initial "memetics research" for our 1967 WestPac Cruisebook indicated the first three 1939 Cimarron-c...

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Hometown: (where you grew up): Manhattan, Kansas

Current home: (where you live now): Edmond, Oklahoma

About Me:: I'm a husband, father, educator, digital storyteller, and catalyst for constructive educational change. I'm the executive director for Story Chasers, Inc. I love working with new media including blogs, podcasts, and digital video, and especially love helping other people become more empowered to realize and share their own creativity.

School I'm Affiliated with:: PK-20 Schools and Colleges throughout Oklahoma

Website: (personal website or blog): http://www.speedofcreativity.org

Website: (school website): http://handouts.wesfryer.com

Select all that apply:: I'm a higher education professor/instructor, I'm a lifetime learner

Main interests in the Celebrate Oklahoma Project Project:: Helping others learn to create and share digital stories, especially those involving oral history.

What is your Twitter ID? (if you're on Twitter - add your twitter URL. Example: http://twitter.com/storychasers): http://twitter.com/wfryer

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What is COV in a few sentences?

Celebrate Oklahoma Voices is a statewide digital storytelling project empowering learners to become digital witnesses, archiving local oral history and sharing that history safely on the global stage of the Internet. COV is presented by a collaborative partnership of Oklahoma schools, non-profit groups, and other organizations. Our current focus is providing 2.5 day workshops for Oklahoma educators focused on digital storytelling. The project learning community currently (as of January 2009) has… Continue

Posted on January 22, 2009 at 10:40am —

Starbucks Run for Feb 21st

Educators participating in our Feb 20-22 workshop: Please leave your Starbucks order as a comment here, with you first name. (Sorry, if you are not enrolled in our workshop, we will not be able to fill your order.)

Posted on February 20, 2008 at 3:53pm — 9 Comments

Centennial videos, photos, podcasts and more

Newsok.com has a page of links to videos, images, and podcasts related to Statehood day last Friday:

http://www.newsok.com/centennial/statehood

We have had over 170 pictures added to our Digital Centennial Flickr group since last Friday! We now have over 500 images in our pool:

http://flickr.com/groups/ok100/

Posted on November 22, 2007 at 3:15pm —

Please join these other social networks for teachers

These are excellent social networks on Ning for teachers, consider joining them! (It's free!)

The Learning 2.0 Conference in Shanghai, China (Sept 2007)

Classroom 2.0 Ning

Posted on September 20, 2007 at 5:49pm —

Links from September 20th workshop

Here are the links from our workshop in Mid-Del Schools on September 20th. A link to recorded audio will also be provided!

Posted on September 20, 2007 at 4:42pm —

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At 5:58am on November 21, 2009, Bob-RJ Burkhart said…: Wikipedia Attribution: fleur-de-lis positioned on a trefoil, in the original Scouting colors chosen by Lord Baden-Powell. To be considered for use as a non-trademark Scouting logo where questions of legality are involved.

At 5:36am on November 21, 2009, Bob-RJ Burkhart said…: Future thought leaders (geoWIZards) are guided by four principles ... Integrity · Responsibility · Compassion · Forgiveness ... to co-create highly effective organizations characterized by PURPOSE, TRUST & CAMARADERIE:
http://www.moralcompass.com/

At 5:48am on November 18, 2009, Bob-RJ Burkhart said…: Mahalo Wes - After a 2003 Minnesota Valley (Viking Council BSA) National Eagle Scout Association (NESA) after-dinner briefing about Venturing BSA, I volunteered to guide our local "Dan Patch District" in co-creating a Hornaday Award BSA Eco-Challenge course.

Mutually beneficial results of our collaborative BIOneering effort became Chapter 7: Leave No Trace in 2009 Edition of The Boy Scout Handbook (SKU 34554) with support from Professional Scouters Johnathan Bonness, Bob Thielen and Jim Terry.

I engaged OCTA-Trails Executive Director (Travis Boley) in a multi-year MentorshipART mapXchange (Trails-n-Tales) Eco-Challenge during Aug-2005. I agreed to help the Partnership for National Trails System (PNTS) adapt the USNPS Ice Age National Scenic Trail (IATR) as "No Child Left Inside" by working with Kaw Valley Heritage Alliance.

At 9:33pm on August 30, 2009, Anne Nelson said…: Thanks so much for a great workshop!! It opens the door for so many possibilities for both students and adults to share their stories about Oklahoma and beyond, whether fact or fiction. Your ideas for sharing are contagious!

At 8:43am on June 25, 2009, Janice Wilkerson said…: Just wanted to thank you for the time you spent working with us this week. I thoroughly enjoyed the workshop! I haven't been this interested in a project in a while.
Thanks, too, for lunch both days. The time shared visiting with other participants over lunch was educational as well.

At 7:08pm on February 18, 2009, Sherri said…: Wesley,

Thank you for allowing me to facilitate the workshop in Burns Flat with the Cordell group. I would love to do more. This is too much fun!

Sherri

At 12:23am on January 16, 2009, BR Stover said…: Will photos on Flickr be applicable for the workshop or should I download the photos to a thumb drive?

At 11:44am on January 14, 2009, Toby Coble said…: Wesley, When are you going to do another COV workshop?

At 9:58pm on November 15, 2008, Susan Stansberry said…: A Gage Tiger for sure! My Mom lives in Mooreland now, but I do get back to Gage once in awhile. I just submitted a grant with Gage involved, and I'm hoping we'll do some digital storytelling with that.

At 11:38am on November 12, 2008, Ernie Easter said…: We are currently having an issue with the Swedish Colony section of the MaineMemory.net website. As soon as it is resolved I'll give you the link.

My students and I have spent time at the New Sweden museum digitizing artifacts. These were uploaded to www.mainememory.net and placed in their collection, but we retain ownership. My students also worked to catalogue many of the artifacts. As part of my local history curriculum I have had them research aspects of the Swedish Colony, write and illustrate an exhibit. Some of the stories have been wonderful. Many of my students have roots here in town and this is their family's history.

We still celebrate Midsommar and St. Lucia in town as part of our heritage with students participating in the pageantry during both celebrations.

I am very interested in learning from your experiences and looking at what might work in Maine.