Blog Juice for Educational Technology

i just finished my gig, and it appeared to be well received. Unfortunately I left my computer on the stage, so I’m typing this on my phone. Nancy is listed the types of abuses that kids engage in.
Many of the school shooting were pre reported on blogs and social networks.
A lot of what […]

This is the best picture I could get, holding my camera phone out the window of my room, which faces into the hotel.  Somewhere, down there, is a floating island with a piano on it.

It’s going to be an interesting day, because I’m at the top of the education food chain.  The National School Boards […]

In 1976, when I graduated from high school, “state-of-the-art” technology consisted of slide rulers, overhead projectors, and filmstrips. There were computer games: someone had “pong” hooked up to a black and white television. When I went away to college

This week in Federal Way schools, it got a lot more inconvenient to show one of the top-grossing documentaries in U.S. history, the global-warming alert “An Inconvenient Truth.” After a parent who supports the teaching of creationism and opposes sex educa

Software that will enable teachers worldwide to share educational materials, form communities and collaborate on projects will be available for free early in 2007, says its developer, the nonprofit organization Teachers Without Borders (TWB). According t

As eSchool News reported on Jan. 24, President Bush cited the competitiveness of American students as a critical challenge in his 2007 State of the Union address (see story: Bush to Congress: Renew NCLB this year). It’s …

A couple of days ago, I posted a question that was sent to me by Cable in the Classroom concerning our challenges, as educators, in making ethical use of the new world of digital content, and helping our students learn to respect the new information landscape on the grounds of ethics.
The question was:
“What is your […]

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, the nation’s leading advocacy organization focused on infusing 21st century skills into education, today announced a joint partnership with the state of Wisconsin to bring 21st century teaching and learning skil

Students in the fifth and sixth grades at Westfall Elementary in Malcolm are keeping on the cutting edge, technologically speaking, when it comes to taking quizzes and performing some class work. This school year marks the third that members of the cla

Since it began, the Internet has changed the way we communicate with one another. More specifically, the surge in popularity in social networking sites such as Myspace and Facebook have made communicating with people of all ages as easy as a click of a

Two of  the kids in the Blogical Minds group have been blogged about and both posts are really going to make a difference to those two student bloggers.
See kids do the darndest things!
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Dear Mary 
A special thanks to my two good blogging friends, Lani and Jim!

Not much happening in Orland on the Flickr front this year.  This picture was actually taken at last year’s conference by Steve Dembo.

I just took a quick gander at Hitchhikr, and saw that FETC is in full swing.  I’m not there, obviously, but some great presenters are: Will Richardson, Kathy Schrock, and Alan November to […]

Edward J. McElroy, president, American Federation of Teachers:

“Two months and 16 days since his policies took a self-described ‘thumpin’,’ President Bush continues to press the politics of division. In his State of t…