Blog Juice for Educational Technology

The Hurricane Education Leadership Program (HELP) Team, a consortium of more than 30 ed-tech providers, associations, and foundations, was created in late 2005 after hurricanes Katrina and Rita ravaged Gulf Coast schools…

Other than the keynote, I’ve been able to see only one presentation here at NCETC (hh). It was the last three-quarters of Tammy Worcester’s featured presentation. As one NCETC blogger, Danita Russell, said,

“I finally went to a session from an experienced presenter. TammyWorcester’s session on Beyond Cutting and Pasting to Build IntegratedTechnology […]

I woke this morning and found reference to this blog in my aggregator. I wish people would put their names on their blogs. I assume that the blog was written by Rob Darrow, because that the name in his URL, but I’m not sure. This blog also resonated with me, because of […]

Several years ago, noted researcher and computer-aided design pioneer Nicholas Negroponte embarked on a program to develop a laptop computer that would be sold for use in the developing world. The catch was that the computer needed to be very affordable,

As might be expected, the Wall Street Journal is fairly well-versed in helping upwardly mobile individuals learn about new jobs and how to obtain such positions. Over the past few years, their CareerJournal website has expanded significantly, and they are

Just a single word can make all the difference in a poem, an essay, or an entire novel. Educating students of all ages about the importance of words, particularly in creative writing, can be a difficult task. Fortunately, this visually refreshing and well

An article, Standardized tests can send students who fail into a tailspin, from the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (NY) features a principal arguing for testing reform. Hear! Hear! Our insanity about testing really is one our biggest obstacles in transforming education. It does my soul good to hear a principal speaking out. Some points he […]

I just finished the BloggerCon session, here in Greensboro, and it exceeded all expectations. It was a small group of about 10, but we were all bloggers with lots to share. I would say that the major emphasis was pedagogy — what does it look like in the classroom. Most of the […]

As virtual school enrollments continue to climb nationwide, school administrators are faced with an important question: How to prepare traditional teachers for success in an increasingly online world.

Looking to estab…

I did a workshop on wikis today, and, by all accounts, it was a huge success. Having never taught it before, I really did not know how well educators would take to it, but it seemed that everyone (teachers, administrators, college faculty) found something in wikis that they could do — that helped them […]

When I talk about blogging at conferences and district staff developments, I usually include a list of quotes from teachers about how their students are literally begging them for writing assignments — how students are writing in their blogs, even if there isn’t an assignment. It’s especially revealing, I think, to see a teacher, […]