Blog Juice for Educational Technology

I’m in San Franciso now - great flight out. I spent the day walking around the city and enjoying the day. I love this city! I am looking forward to attending some great sessions in the morning! I’ll close with a night time picture. Both of these pictures were taken through the windows in my […]

A research project that uses wireless handheld devices to engage students in an augmented reality-based educational environment could have a big impact on future learning, its creators say.

The Handheld Augmented Re…

In their State of the State addresses this year, many U.S. governors have proposed new education programs that aim to raise high school graduation rates and ensure the global competitiveness of their students–and many of these proposals rely on the u

Calling on Congress to renew the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) this year, President Bush in his State of the Union address urged lawmakers to build on the law’s success “without backsliding and calling it reform.” Bush wants lawmakers to add

Edward J. McElroy, president, American Federation of Teachers: … “What President Bush should be saying is that he will support research-backed solutions for struggling schools and disadvantaged students, and that additional funding will be proposed i

In the morning I have an early flight to San Francisco. I will be attending the TRLD Conference. I have signed up for a workshop with Dave Warlick and Julie Coiro. I hope I get in both. This has been a last minute thing. We get to go to one conference a year and since […]

Brenda and I are leaving tomorrow morning for San Francisco and the TRLD conference, at the Hyatt Regency.  I’ve attended and worked this conference a few times, and it is one of the best small gatherings I have experienced.  This is partly because of the range of interests.  The TRLD stands for Technology, Reading, and […]

Microsoft is developing a new suite of tools that will allow developers and publishers of educational software, as well as educators themselves, to create their own instructional programs easily and intuitively, the comp…

I had the pleasure of attending the Science Blogging Conference in Chapel Hill last weekend. It was a good conference, but not like the conferences that I usually work at. First of all, the sessions followed an un-conference format — though many of the presenters had a pretty hard time adhering to that […]

I am consumed with keeping all the pieces of this research on blogging into a manageable form that will be useful as we start this summer digging into all that has transpired and what it means. I have had much to learn about the research process and one side aspect of this project is that […]

California Dreamer, Rob Darrow, talks about the upcoming 21st Century Literacies Impact Conference, in UC Berkley this week.  The main sponsor for the conference is the National Council of Teachers of English.  Also involved are:

The National Council for Geographic Education
The National Council for the Social Studies
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The National Science Teachers […]

For many years, school libraries have been almost independent from the rest of the district. But now, school officials are hoping to make the library a more integral part of the overall classroom curriculum. On Monday, members of the North Platte Board of

The University of North Alabama made the decision in 2002 to upgrade its classrooms by outfitting them with the latest in high-tech learning tools. From Internet connections to beam projectors and screens, each of the classrooms on campus — a total of 12