Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Avoid contractual mishaps and get the biggest bang for your buck. Purchasing software license and service agreements can be daunting for any district. Greg Lindner, director of information and technology services for the Elk Grove Unified School District

How can I create enthusiasm that is contagious? How can I integrate technology into my curriculum? What kinds of enrichment activities are available and affordable? How do I get parents involved? These are all good questions that we as educators ask ourse

Funds set aside since 1876 for school textbooks cannot be used to purchase laptops or other computer hardware, the state attorney general ruled Tuesday. Greg Abbott’s decision is expected to impact debate in the Legislature, where some lawmakers want to s

There’s been a bit going on lately that’s making me reflect about my work as a teacher. It’s interesting for me to note that some of the teachers that I respect a lot are proponents of the idea that the teacher is in the classroom to teach and …

I don’t mind people quoting my blog in their own or using any other of the content that I create to inform their own work. But this bothers me. Someone has decided to simply use my RSS feed and that of about a dozen other edbloggers to create a “river of news” page upon which […]

The last couple of days, the one picture I can’t get out of my head is the one of groups of Congressmen huddled around talking in hushed tones along the lines of:
“Ok, so what is a blog again?”
“Look, just think MySpace.”
“Ohhh, yeah. MySpace! Blogs are evil…dangerous!”

“Dang straight…and that Wikipedia thing is just a mess.”
“Wikiwhat?”
“Nevermind…just […]

A montage of text and images, remixed in Flash from Myron Turner's new media application/poem 'Timeline' ( http://www.mturner.org/Timeline/ ).

The entire history of everything, encompassed in eleven double-page spreads!

http://edwardpicot.com/shorthistoryindex.html

- Edward Picot
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange

I think we’re all sorta jumping around the same bush. It’s been a good dance because I’ve learned some things. First of all, nothing’s simple and it isn’t getting any simpler. There are no rules any more and as much as I’d like to come up with some kind of all encompassing […]

While the demands of work and home life make it seem impossible for many working professionals to consider continuing their education, there are thousands who through online learning find a way to reach their educational goals and advance their careers. J

WiredRed, the leader in enterprise-scale real-time communication software, today announced that the University of Dundee has turned to its e/pop web conferencing solution to enable distance learning for students facing the steep learning curve of joining

Local schools are in need of teacher who can use the internet as an instructional tool in their class room. Yemen is one of the least developed countries in the Arab world; a society where literacy rates for women and girls runs as low as 30%, while pove

This fall, when Pennsylvania State University starts requiring all tuition bills to be paid online, employees in the campus bursar’s office will undoubtedly have much less paperwork to file. But that doesn’t mean their jobs will get any easier, according to the university’s student newspaper.

In a staff editorial, The Daily Collegian argues that Penn State’s switch to an online-only payment system will create more problems than it solves:

What happens if the e-mail notifying you that your semester bill needs to be paid is filtered to spam? What if some parents do not own a computer? What if the confirmation of payment is lost somehow, and parents are left with no proof that the bill was ever paid? Tuition is far too expensive an investment to risk errors of the technical kind.

A question for readers: Does a college owe it to students and parents to slow its switch to higher-tech services? —Brock Read

When it comes to recruiting young talent, the open-source movement faces something of a challenge: Microsoft can tempt college coding whizzes with paid internships. The creators of Linux, the popular open-source operating system, probably can’t.

But Google hopes to level the playing field with a project it calls Summer of Code. It is paying 630 college students to spend the summer sitting at home and programming, according to Wired News. Google isn’t asking the students to do freelance work, though. It pairs each of the young coders with an experienced open-source programmer who acts as a mentor. —Brock Read