Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Brenda and I have been watching episodes of House, a medical mystery series.  My son left the first two years of it at home when he went off to school.  The medical stuff is more than a little disturbing, but the characters are growing on us.  Not nearly as good as The West Wing, which […]

The other day I ran across some notes I took at a workshop I attended when I worked for the NC State Department of Public Instruction.  I do not recall the name of the workshop, but it was about writing successful reports and memos.  The concepts were research-based (writing that people understand more fully and […]

The stupidest thing I ever did was to buy some rollerblades the day I turned 40.  Completely cured me of any and all mid-life crises I might have harbored during the next decade and a half.  That pavement comes up a lot faster now than it did when I was 18, and no matter where […]

I received an e-mail this morning from a colleague who had been flamed for a recent post.  I read one of the blog postings aimed at him and was shocked to see quite inflammatory comments and even image manipulations  designed to bring the attack to a more personal level — and this from an educator […]

This came up when I searched painting on Flickr Creative Commons.  It’s about painting a new picture — which this is not.  But it’s also about repainting our schools.

It astounds me what can result from a “rant.”  I came so very close to not posting that article (Teachers & Technology — a Rant), because I […]

Yesterday’s post (rant), Teachers & Technology, reminded me of a desire I’ve had for a long time to integrate threaded comments into my blog.  The rather rambling article attracted 18 comments, some responding directly to the original article, and others responding to the comments of other readers.
For those who may not know what is meant […]

This morning, I was scanning back over last weeks TechLearning blogs, written by my esteemed colleagues, when I was struck by Jeff Utecht’s post,  Fear Factor.  Jeff’s comments resonated with me because of several conversations I had last week with administrators and tech integrators from schools I worked for in Connecticut and Maryland.
The idea […]

At the risk of starting another friendly argument about the true nature of information, I’d like to talk a bit about this almost sacred topic.  But I do not want to talk about information itself, but about the information landscape that has formed around us under the seismic forces of the “Oh so” seductive advances […]

As you may be aware, I’m home, and relaxing a bit before I get back to work.  This morning I decided to spend a little time playing (while the rest of the family is still asleep) at sidebar envy — a phrase coined by my friend Sharon Peters in Montreal.
First, I got rid of my […]