Author Archive | Ernest Koe

About the Author

I love what I do. The best part of this job is that I get to talk to people and organizations about information technology--not just narrowly about database systems, or websites or the technical kung-fu surrounding integration and software but also broadly on the use of information itself and its impact on our businesses and schools. My technical expertise is in information systems--databases and web technologies--but my professional interests cover technology in the context of education, community-development and business-development. When time permits, I blog about these things at http://proofgroup.com/blog/ernest.

Hans Mundahl’s edSocialMedia Webinar On Livestreaming

Livestreaming Walkthrough with Hans Mundahl from edSocialMedia on Vimeo. In case you missed this excellent webinar by Hans Mundahl on producing livestreams, here’s the video from Jan 27, 2011 Livestreaming Walkthrough with Hans Mundahl from edSocialMedia on Vimeo.

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edSocialMedia Goes Creative Commons

We are pleased to announce that as of Thursday, August 26, 2010, all edSocialMedia content including articles from contributors and except where noted will be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. It has been truly exciting to watch the growth of edSocialMedia, and we have the tremendous privilege and honor of hosting [...]

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“Understanding The Digital Natives” on Monday Note

More research on the “digital native” demographic pool. This one was conducted by the French polling institute BVA. Worth a bookmark and a read. They see life as a game. They enjoy nothing more than outsmarting the system. They don’t trust politicians, medias, nor brands. They see corporations as inefficient and plagued by an outmoded [...]

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LIVE BLOG – edSocialMedia SUMMIT

Thanks to all our sponsors and attendees who made the BCDS summit a success! slides and speaker notes can be found here: http://esmsummit2010.pbworks.com Tweet blogging at http://twitter.com/edsocialmedia (In the photo – Jeff Anderson and LIz Mcgann from Beaver Country Day School) KEYNOTE speaker, Ben Jones, streaming live at http://esmsummit2010.pbworks.com Follow us on twitter – @edsocialmedia [...]

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Case Study: Upper Canada College

This one comes from John Carson who worked with Upper Canada College from June 2007 until May 2008. Their efforts were awarded The Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education’s 2008 PRIX D’EXCELLENCE Bronze Award for Best E-Innovation in University Advancement and also the Council for Advancement and Support of Education 2008 Circle of Excellence Bronze Award. Read more to learn how they did it.

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Bootcamp: Greater San Antonio/Austin – May 21, 2009

Getting Started with Social Media Join us on May 21, 2009 at Texas Lutheran University in Seguin, Texas for a social media bootcamp experience. Who should attend: Higher-ed, K-12 administrators and staff in Admissions, Marketing, Communications, External-affairs, Advancement, or Alumni/Development.

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Photos from edSocialMedia’s Bootcamp

Missed edSocialMedia’s Bootcamp? Attended but didn’t have a chance to snap any photos? Not a problem. We have plenty of images to share that captured the day’s event. This collection has been tagged with the Creative Commons license. You’ll find the originals hosted on my Flickr account. Enjoy! Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

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Bootcamp!

Many thanks to everyone who helped to make the bootcamp a success. We’re looking forward to the next one – stay tuned! Check out the edSocialMedia wiki at http://wiki.edsocialmedia.com for content and links.

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Podcast: BrainyFlix SAT prep and social media

We had a chance to talk with the guys behind BrainyFlix, an SAT vocabulary test prep site that is running a vocabulary video contest. They are making use of social media tools to create a space for students and teachers to share creative videos focused on learning new vocabulary. In addition, they are making use of social media to get the word out about their service. We covered both topics during our conversation.

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone. Let me start off 2009 with a few loosely connected ideas. What does a connected, always-on student look like? Connectivism repeated – http://vodpod.com/watch/1193251-connectivism-in-plain-english. If students have access to content everywhere, all the time, what is the role of a physical classroom? Is the ‘value-proposition’ of this physical space in need of [...]

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