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Sitting on the train on Sunday, with Brenda, on our way to New Haven, I looked over into the next section of the car and saw a young man and his daughter playing on a Macbook computer.  He looked so familiar, and I thought first of Dan Pink, whom I’ve met a few times lately.  […]

[Another version of this article was posted on 2¢ Worth in August of 2005]
Pamela Wheaton Shorr, editor of The Heller Reports’ Educational Sales and Marketing Insider, contributed a piece for the recent Scholastic Administrators, Take Control of Tech.  The abstract reads..
Schools across the country are waging a war against technology tools gone bad. Read how […]

I’ll be leaving for Connecticut in a half hour.  Brenda is traveling with me for much of this trip, for which we’ll call New Haven our base of operations.  Well, we’ll never really call it that, but you know.
Brenda should have been an engineer.  Much of North Carolina is experiencing a drought.  In fact, except […]

Pecha Kucha comes from a Japanese term that describes the sound of conversation — or chit-chat.  It also describes a brand new medium for communication that was originally invented by Tokyo architects Mark Dytham (born in the UK) and Astrid Klein (born in Italy).  A Pecha Kucha is a presentation with slide show, utilizing 20 […]

A number of people, including Matthew Tabor, have taken exception with a blog post that I wrote last week, Another Question for Interviewers.  To be fair, my article was not as clearly written as it should have been.  I have done some editing of the post, but have not removed any of the original text.  […]

It’s been great to be at home all day — and I’ll be here tomorrow.  Then Brenda and I will fly to NYC on Sunday, and then train up to New Haven, where I’ll be working in three different districts in Connecticut before hopping on another train for Baltimore.  I’d hoped to do some relaxing […]

We pitched in to help my son buy an iPhone for his 19th birthday.  I’m so envious, but his birthday came before mine.  It is an amazing piece of technology.  The iPhone seems like the closest thing I can think of to the perfect personal information appliance.
The one stumbler was that we had to release […]

This is not a Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego challenge.  I’m serious.
After I drove a couple of hours from Lumberton to Selma; the train ran two hours late; the car rental shop had closed, and I had to get a cab to the airport to get a rental; and I drove another couple […]

It’s how I’ll spend the whole week.  Yesterday I spoke in Charlotte, and then Brenda drove me back to Raleigh, where I dropped her off, and then drove on down to Kinston, NC.  I’ll do two presentations for their school opening staff development conference today and then drive on to Lumberton, NC for another opening […]

Certainly, the Education Journal is not dead!  Some folks, though, seem to think that it’s what I believe, or what I want.
[This is an edited version of a comment that I posted this morning on Matthew Tabor’s blog, Education for the Aughts]

I took this picture at the Toronto Airport the other day.  Kinda fits here. […]

I got nearly nine and a half hours of sleep last night.  I must have been tired.  Gary Stager isn’t tired.  Traveling around in Europe must be energizing because he’s been doing a lot of talking on my blog.
Gary is the, in my opinion, the consummate skeptic — among many other things.  He challenges much […]

[Live Blogged]
I’m at a learning conference in Fredericton, New Brunswick.  Robin Martin is sharing some of his experiences with classroom blogging.  He uses Blogger.com.  He writes the blog assignments and students respond with comments.
One project involves a friend of Robin, a writer in Japan, has shared some of his short stories.  The students read the […]