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I’ve been sitting or the past couple of hours, in the lobby of the Holiday Inn Express in Dillsboro, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smokies (unimpressive mountain range in Eastern U.S.). I have been working on NECC session and workshop proposals, not the most fun thing to do. Descriptions need to […]

American colleges of education are faring poorly in the overall job of preparing the nation’s school teachers for today’s “standards-based, accountability-driven classrooms,” according to a new national study. Educating School Teachers, released yesterday

Katie Sigurdson has used floppy disks for computers before, but the Happy Hollow Elementary School sixth-grader prefers her flash drive. “They’re easier to carry around,” Katie said, plugging the portable memory card into her teacher’s computer and loadin

There was a bit of a fuss last week when South Kent College in Dover announced that it was to hand out MP3 players to its students in a pioneering podcasting experiment. The idea was that it would allow them to download lectures and listen to them in thei

I have not been blogging a lot lately. I have a reason for that. I am embarking on a new blogging project with elementary students. I am so excited because I have the opportunity to be part of a year long research project that involves blogging. I have been working, literally night and day on […]

The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) has issued two new guidance documents for helping policy makers and education leaders as they establish online learning programs.

“Standards for Quality Online Teaching,” a…

Long-term patients at three major children’s hospitals will have free access to online courses this year through the Virtual High School (VHS), a national nonprofit provider of virtual instruction.

VHS is giving as ma…

The striking thing to me about that milestone (one billionth Internet user) is not the enormity of the number, however. More interesting, perhaps, is that the one billionth person to jump onto the Web could just as easily been an eight-year-old kid from Sweden or the South Bronx (or, for that matter, an eighty-year-old from […]

I can’t really get my mind on work, as much as I have to do. My NECC proposals aren’t in yet, I have much more work to do on the K12 Online Conference address. I have two recorded interveiws to make into podcastes, and all I can think about is a weekend off. […]

After spending all day, yesterday, driving around Raleigh and talking into my camera, this was an interesting thing to find this morning.
Podcastingjust turned two years old and this weekend is the second annual Podcastand Portable Media Expo in Ontario, California. With that in mind, hereare PFAs 10 Podcasting Movers and Shakers. This isn’t a Top […]

Less than a year after launching its revolutionary online learning service, WorkshopLive today announced completion of its 1,000th music lesson. Thousands of subscribers worldwide can now access online guitar, bass and keyboard lessons, any time of day or

Three weeks into the new school year, sixth grader Paige Singleton of Baraboo was just meeting some of her classmates and teachers face-to-face for the first time Monday morning. Paige, whose mom describes her as a “visual learner,” had difficulty adjusti