Blog Juice for Educational Technology

This is very cool.  I was just scanning through the transcript of one of the twitteresque chats that were happening during my sessions in Maine.  Someone, Amy, suggested a web site that offers tag clouds for major presidential speeches, mostly inaugural addresses. 
The URL is http://chir.ag/phernalia/preztags/.  The interface is not very intuitive.  There’s a bar […]

I’ve commented on this before, that working with teachers in Maine is different.  I keep trying to put my finger on what it is, fundamentally, and I still can’t do it, but I came one step closer this week at the Summer Teacher Leader Institute in Castine.  One of the themes that seemed to emerge […]

I had a very interesting conversation last night in the Inspiration Station, a room set asside for chatting at the MLTI Summer Institute — sort of a blogger’s cafe.  But before I share that conversation, it’s important to have the context of the short keynote I’d delivered just before.  In it, I suggested three converging […]

I’m back on the grid now, more or less, sitting in the Maine maritime Academy in Castine, Maine — a beautiful little town next tome some beautiful water, dotted with beautiful sail boats, some made of fiberglass and some made of polished wood.
I checked in at registration around 3:00 and was immediately accosted by six […]

Brenda and I are enjoying a one-day vacation near Bar Harbor, Maine.  It is beautiful here, especially in Acadia National Park.  We are even more anxious to find a way to spend some time in the Maritimes.
I’ll drop Brenda off at the Bangor Airport in the few hours, and then head back over to Castine […]