Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Brenda and I had a fabulous time in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina over the past couple of days.  We took our time, driving across the state, taking a detour along the Blue Ridge Parkway, getting on in Little Switzerland, and off again just southwest of Waynsville.  Then a few more miles over to […]

Do you want to see something really cool?  First read..
Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge: Challenge Synopsis:
Some of science’s most powerful statements are not made in words. From the diagrams of DaVinci to Hooke’s microscopic bestiary, the beaks of Darwin’s finches, Rosalind Franklin’s x-rays or the latest photographic marvels retrieved from the remotest galactic outback, visualization […]

With the K12 Online Conference keynote, still incomplete, my writing deadline looming, conference proposals due, and I start serious travel again next week, Brenda and I are taking off for Cullowhee, North Carolina, this morning for Mountain Heritage Day, which starts in the morning.  Today, we’re hoping to get away early enough to drive up […]

Barry Bachenheimer posted a comment on one of my articles the other day that I thought I would just drop-cast out to other blogging educators — for your spare change.  It’s a good question, one that bigger bloggers than us ponder.  “Does a blog in the woods, that no one reads, make any noise?”
2¢ Worth […]

The K12Online Conference is on the way. It’s free! It’s flexible! And we hope it’s going to be forward thinking. It’s going to be a great global conversation among educators, and those who touch and are touched by educators. Go to the web site for details, and, if you don’t mind, […]

Several years ago, I had a conversation with a tech director for a school district in Arkansas.  I do not remember who it was, or what school district — but I was impress by the fact that the district was providing e-mail accounts on their own server, unfiltered.  This was a time before blogs and […]

Earlier this month, I wrote a “rant” in 2¢ Worth that garnered a good deal of response.  The post, Teachers & Technology - a Rant!, came mostly from a blog article written here, by a Technology & Learning Blogger, but also from some of its comments and other posts that I had read that day.  […]

On the spur, just before scanning through e-mail, I took a glance at Twitter, seeing, not surprisingly, a recent post from Jeff Utecht — well into Sunday there in Shanghai.  He said
Twitterverse I’ll be doing a test run of Wiziq in 10 minutes

..and then

Twitters join me in wiziq to see what this is all about. […]

Learning 2.0 (slideshow) and SETT07 (slideshow) are behind us now, but they remain good conference pages to visit on Hitchhikr, as educators are still blogging the events and uploading their photos.  But during a quick visit to the page, this morning, I noticed another upcoming conference, ASLAXX.  It’s the Australian School Library Association.
What caught my […]

On Thursday, while working at the coffee shop, I received a call on my mobile from a woman who was speaking in a fairly thick accent — rather difficult for me to understand.  I walked outside, out of the sounds of Starbucks, leaned against the window so that I could keep an eye on my […]

It’s not nearly as good as being there — Especially if I could have been in Sidney, Australia.  But, lets face it.  It’s a flat world.  To export my services, I do not, necessarily, have to export myself. 
So, after only two and a half hours of sleep last night, the alarm on my phone […]

When you spend as much time traveling, as I and others do, time has a way of weirdly skewing.  It’s sort of a doppler effect thing, where what I’ll be doing for the next week, tends to bunch up in front of me worrying me, demanding my time and effort, and what I did only […]

Atlanta airport seems to have undergone some major face lift.  Marble floors, more upscale eateries, and cushy chairs at the gates.  Nice!  Still crowded, but nice!  I pulled out my laptop, and thought for a moment, “free WiFi?”  But no, your choice: Boing, Concourse, Sprint, Access, Opti-Fi, or T-Mobile, all for $7.95 for 24 hours.  […]