Lance Ford, Howe ISD, Howe, Oklahoma: Creatively Connecting Kids to Content
By hvoran
Lance is a dynamic speaker, and so excited about what he is doing with his students, that you can’t help catching his excitement! Many of the tools he discussed I was already aware of…this is not intended as a negative comment, because there were many people in the audience for whom they were new, so it was great that he talked about them.
Tools discussed:
GCast, Skype, iChatAV, Marratech
More on Marratech–purchased 6 months ago by Google, so could really take off. Client is free. Ability for h.264; Can connect to h.323 units, but needs the server-side software.
He is looking for collaborative partners for classroom VC opportunities.
Lance quote: “When you get the vision of what you want, don’t limit yourself to technology grants. ” They used a historical building grant to gut and remodel their school.



April 29th, 2008