Blog Juice for Educational Technology

More than a year ago, I wrote about questions that school administrators might ask prospective teachers, to determine their 21st century literacy skills.  In seven or eight months, I’ll be posing a new one, questions that prospective teacher employees might ask their interviewers to determine the school’s environment with regard to teaching 21st century literacy.  […]

Video Tennis in the 1970s

Video Tennis Today

It was a good day, yesterday, at Miami Country Day School.  I have to say that the audience there was one of the most positively responsive groups of teachers I’ve worked with as long as I can remember.  Maybe there IS something to HUMIDITY.  I felt, at times, like […]

I was mostly trying to avoid getting lost yesterday, and, so, did not get my camera out.  I pulled this photo from Flickr Creative Commons.  Should see some photos appearing in my flicker badge (to the right) soon.

I’m not sure what I mean by that title.  It’s just sorta came out.  I suspect, though, that […]

I just spent about fifteen minutes, at the airport, writing a comment, only to be asked for a Captcha word where not Captcha word was given.  Because of the time I spent writing it, I’ll just dump it here.  The blog is Unknown Future, but I do not know the name of the author, nor […]

[Originally posted to TechLearning Blog on 6 Aug 2007]
Last week, I presented a featured address at the Council for Chief State School Officers’ summer institute in Portland, Maine.  This was a golden opportunity to enlighten state superintendents, commissioners, and deputies of education from each of the fifty states with the realities of schooling in the […]

Google Blogoscoped announced on Wednesday that Google News is adding a new feature.
Google News Adds (Special) Comments:
Google News USA is rolling out an experimental feature that lets people or organizations who are part of a news story add a comment to the news. “Our long-term vision is that any participant will be able to send […]

I can remember the excitement that we felt and expressed at the NC State Department of Public Instruction, when we heard that Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS Institute, was starting a tech-rich independent school in Cary — Cary Academy.  A paradoxically traditional looking campus, Cary Academy has sense distinguished itself for its instructional use of […]

Just took my son to the Honda place.  He just got his drivers license and will need something reliable for college.  But he’s only been driving for 2 months, and both kids are required to drive the Volvo for at least six-months. 
My main reason for going, though, was to see the old 1972 […]

Wes Fryer tipped us off, yesterday, to a Boing Boing article about the National School Boards Association.  Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing’s principal writer, says, (referring to a Tech Blorge article from August 7, Schooboards: Net Dangers Over-Rated; Bring Social Networks to School, by David Cassel):
Boing Boing: School boards: The Internet is safe and we should […]

It makes no difference — shade or out in the sun, it’s just plain hot in Raleigh today. I road my bike this morning, but no walk this afternoon!

That title has no real meaning, other than the fact that it was one of the subterranean conversations that happened during my six hours with educators in Irving, Tx yesterday.  I’ve written about this before, where I use AjaxChat, installed on my web server, to create a chat room that operates very much like Twitter.  […]

Hard to explain this picture in terms of this posting.  It showed up in a Flickr Creative Commons search for luggage.  The photo is called, Lost Luggage Tango, and it made me think of people who are on the go, and will likely never be here again doing this.

This is one that’s been rolling (ricocheting) […]

There is no doubt that blogging has become a profession for some.  For most of us, it’s a hobby, sideline, by-product, or just one essential aspect of what we do as educators.  But, for some, it’s their job and their principal source of income.  I suspect that this has not been so clear to me […]