Blog Juice for Educational Technology

While many writers have to wait decades, if not centuries, after their death to receive critical or commercial success, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was lucky to achieve both during his lifetime. Born in Portland, Maine in 1807, he was a figure of national

Skelleton of a T-Rex Looks out over the Legislature Building from the NC Science Museum across the Street

I’ve known about this  for a few months, but only took a close look the other day after a meeting with some folks at our state department of education (NCDPI).  It’s called, Future-Ready Students for the 21st Century, […]

Living all the way from the rocky coast of Nova Scotia to the forests of Brazil, hummingbirds can be found in a vast range of climates. Recently, the National Geographic Magazine created this multimedia portrait of these hardy creatures and placed it onli

Painters and poets throughout the millennia have explored the aesthetic beauty of trees in great detail, and in the past few centuries, humans have become intimately aware of how trees form the foundation of many natural systems. Recently, the United Nati

Americans get quite a bit of information from the Internet, and if recent surveys are any indication, they also seem to spend quite a bit of time browsing around the web as part of their day. This 42-page report from the Pew Internet American Life Projec

Fred Koch alerted me to another story about video games in education.  This Chicago Tribune piece is about David Williamson Shaffer, of Epistemic Games and the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
There’s not a lot that is new in the article, but we have another serious researcher to pay attention to.
Video games […]

Already facing a legal challenge for alleged copyright infringement, Google Inc.’s crusade to build a digital library has triggered a philosophical debate with an alternative project promising better online access to the world’s books, art and historical

Tennessee school systems will get vouchers for Microsoft software, amounting to about $16.40 for each student, from a settlement of an unlawful trade practices lawsuit against the company. The Tennessee Department of Education will distribute a total of $

Scientist Robert P.H. Chang of Northwestern University had no trouble persuading education officials in Mexico to introduce the burgeoning field of nanotechnology to schools there, but it’s been a far tougher sell in the United States. In Mexico, Chang s

Microsoft’s Dan’l Lewin posts in his AlwaysOn blog, a rather long piece on what’s next in video games.  It is largely a Microsoft commercial, but uncovers some of the emerging trends in the video game industry.
Gaming — The Next Generation Moves On | AlwaysOn:
Gaming is clearly one of the trend stories of the decade. It […]

This in from the trickle of e-mail that has hit my mail box over the past very busy couple of days.  Bonnie Bracey1 posted the story over WWWEDU that was originally posted on edweek.org.2
Science teachers, who wish to use Vice President Al Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” can go to www.participate.net, and request the DVD.  […]

Thanks largely to Google Earth, released by Google in 2005, finding information linked to geographical locations is becoming far easier. Now, earlier this month, Google unveiled new layers for Google Earth: collections of practical and educational resourc

The University at Buffalo has taken the next step in expanding its reach in the community by announcing a partnership with the Buffalo City School District. The partnership, fueled in part by a $485,000 two-year grant from the John R. Oishei Foundation, w