Blog Juice for Educational Technology

As Northern State University prepares to unveil its new Technology Center today, President Patrick Schloss expects the $7 million building will help boost the Aberdeen college’s reputation as a hub for distance learning. Almost 900 high school students t

Ok!  This is not fair.  But the fact is that many people see librarians exactly this way.  They see computer and think that all they need is a technician.  It’s not about the computer!  It’s about the information!

While at the National School Boards Association Conference the other day, more than one school board member came […]

With global competitiveness playing a central role in the education proposals of both President Bush and several governors this year (see Bush to Congress: Renew NCLB this year and States tackle global competitiveness), …

A virtual world which children can inhabit and interact with is being planned by the BBC. CBBC, the channel for 7-12 year olds, said it would allow digitally literate children the access to characters and resources they had come to expect. Users would be

Based in Washington, DC, the mission of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is “to expand access to information, however recorded and preserved, as a public good.” Not surprisingly, they do an excellent job of fulfilling this mission,

Georgetown University’s dominance in the fields of international relations and political science is well-known, and they also have a number of compelling digital projects that draw on their expertise in these areas. One such project is the Political Datab

It’s quite a hike to listen to a lecture at Princeton and then take a long plane ride (or an even longer journey on a cruise ship) over to the University of Hawaii to hear a talk on globalization in the Pacific Rim. Never fear, gentle reader, as the Resea

Based in Washington, DC, the mission of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is “to expand access to information, however recorded and preserved, as a public good.” Not surprisingly, they do an excellent job of fulfilling this mission,

After our talk yesterday at the NSBA Leadership Conference, Nancy Willard and I signed books, an activity that still boggles me.  BTW, Nancy has two wonderful books, Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens, and Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats.
After the signing we remained at the desk and talked into my iPod, which will probably be Episode 79, of Connect […]

Carlee Chew’s hair is just starting to grow back as she prepares to attend school for the first time this year after months recovering from a bone marrow transplant in the summer. Carlee, 11, will not have to spend weeks catching up because videoconferen

School officials at Northview Middle School in Ankeny are using new digital recorders to enhance students’ learning. The recorders are being used in special needs classrooms, foreign language classes, English classes and a variety of settings and situati

A ceiling-mounted digital projector beams a series of terms and symbols onto a massive screen in Roger Keenan’s fifth-grade class. As Keenan begins a geometry lesson involving everything from parallel lines and how to draw a line segment, students use wir

It’s been 30 years, but I’m back at an anti-war protest. From the looks of most foks, they remember 1969 as well. I understand that things have died down a bit, but there are still lots of people here, carrying signs, talking, chanting, and just kinda wandering around. I expect to see […]