What does it take to succeed in implementing a Technology-Rich Learning Environment in your school? Dr. Z had an opportunity to speak with Principal Deron Durflinger at the Van Meter High School where they have provided laptops for their students for 2 years. This 10-minute video is the second in […]
Wondering how the OLDER generation (is that us Baby Boomers? . . . couldn’t be) is interpreting the digital revolution? Here is a video by Ronnie Corbett (The One Ronnie) that provides a fruit stand perspective to out digital world:What do you think? Did they hit it on the noggin? […]
Isn’t that a fantastic group?!?! This is our team from UNI who traveled to Beijing for the Flat Classroom Conference. I have blogged about it some on my blog and you will find the wonderful postings by everyone else through the links over there in the right column of Dr. […]
Sorry that I haven’t done much blogging during the conference. Web access has been quite splotchy so I haven’t always had the access when I had the time to post. I hope that you have been following the blogs of the other students and attendees of this wonderful conference. If […]
OK, OK . . .So I have been ducking my responsibilities for keeping you informed of our wonderful trip to Beijing. (Don’t you just love that duck? <– Bernajean Porter took it outside a shop near Tiananmen Square. Actually I haven’t been too worried about our trip being documented. Our […]
Yes, we will be in Beijing for a week so that our 8 wonderful Instructional Technology grad students will be able to present about Instructional Design and facilitate hands-on workshops with teachers and students.The Flat Classroom Conference is unique in that it includes teachers and students from around the world. […]
On Saturday, we will be flying from Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Beijing, China, via Chicago. In this case, “WE” means that I will be accompanied by 8 Instructional Technology graduate students from UNI and their teacher of record, my wife Kathy Klink-Zeitz. We are going to Beijing to participate in […]
Yes, videos from UNI Panther-Land are making it on the web. We have had a couple of successes.The first is one from our very own Northern University High School. This one is entitled: (AKA Bo Beep) It is the brainstorm of two students from Taiwan: Wendell Tsai and Shang-Hung Tsai. […]
Google Apps has been a boon to schools all over the world. This was a packaged deal from Google where many tools are made available to the schools and school districts to create a controlled system for communication and collaboration. Google Apps has been adopted by many schools and school […]
This video is provides an interesting perspective on leadership. It was filmed at a conference. Begins with a guy dancing (shirtless dancing guy). He was joined by another person who wanted to dance. This continued until there was a mob of dancers. The most interesting part was how the narrator […]