Blog Juice for Educational Technology

It’s New Year’s Eve and we’re out exploring eastern North Carolina.  I hope to be able to share some magnificent pictures tomorrow.  Or not!  We’ll see.

I selected this creative commons licensed photo because it is a miraculous photograph. But also because there was this look of expectation on the child’s face, that nourishing water […]

More than 3,500 creative digital photos entries this year attest to the increasing visual artistry of today’s digital natives. Add to that a promise of great prizes (Adobe Photoshop Elements and/or Adobe Digital Kids Club Digital Photography Lab Kit and a

“The next best thing to be wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.” CS Lewis. I believe the great men and women of history would look upon us with envy as we now have the greatest opportunity in human history to immerse ourselves in a circ

Most learning in organizations is informal, yet the majority of learning dollars are spent on formal courses. If organizations are going to successfully transfer knowledge between employees, they must tap into informal learning. One approach that has been

I really wasn’t aware of this going on until Andy Carvin tagged me last night at 6:27.  It seems that folks are blogging five things that their readers don’t know about them, and then tagging other people to fess up.  How can I top getting shot at by Turkish military police, or knowing Taekwondo, or […]

User satisfaction with U.S. government Web sites rose slightly from last quarter but has remained largely flat for the past year, according to the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), which measures the online performance of a variety of si

Swedish start-up Polar Rose AB aims to make it easy to find photos of familiar faces online, the company said on Tuesday, solving difficult Web search issues while potentially raising new privacy concerns. Polar Rose said it plans to offer free software t

Google Earth, meet Google Moon and Google Mars. The NASA Ames Research Center and Google announced Monday that they had signed an agreement to collaborate on a broad set of projects that could include virtual flyovers of the Moon and Mars and other initi

Andy Carvin writes a fine summary for the Deleting Online Predators Act at Learning Now.
TeacherSource | learning.now . DOPA Dies on the Vine | PBS:
But the final nail in DOPA’s coffin came with the switch of Congress from Republican to Democrat. Legislation that doesn’t get signed into law by the end of a congressional term […]

Geek Index is pretty high on this one!
You know how frustrating it is when you want to respond to somebody’s blog posting with your well thoughtout disertation, but the scrolling text box is only 14 columns by 2 rows?  Well The Man in Blue, Austrialian web designer, Cameron Adams, just showed me a way […]

I wrote yesterday (North Carolina Aims for the 21st Century) about my state’s Future-Ready Students for the 21st Century goals, commenting on some aspects of the learning and teaching elements.  As the day progressed, I found myself thinking more about the process.  As a thirty-year educator, I have seen many such initiatives in North Carolina, […]

Once upon a time, demonstrating the appearance of different diseases and conditions to aspiring members of the various medical professions required an actual human being. While there is still no substitute for learning rounds and first-hand observations,

A number of universities and their ever-attentive public affairs offices have been working on creating websites that will place some of their best and brightest online in a variety of forms, including podcasts, videocasts, blogs, and so on. The University