Blog Juice for Educational Technology

DHarter, one of the educators participating in the K12 Online Preconference chat, said
A kid the other day said to me that he hates the term Web 2.0…makes sense, it’s 1.0 to him!

I’ve never considered that. Not only have these children always know a world with the web, but they’ve always been able to play with […]

I finished going through the transcript for the chat that took place during the first 48 hours of the 2007 K12 Online Conference, while flying from Minnesota to JFK yesterday.  I have to say, first off, that reviewing and commenting on chat was helpful for me.  The conversation emerged several times, about the boundaries that […]

Ken Kay just sent me a blurb from a Partnership for 21st Century Skills news release, describing a recent poll of U.S. Voters.  Here’s part of what he sent!
WASHINGTON, DC – Oct. 10, 2007 – A new, nationwide poll of registered voters reveals that Americans are deeply concerned that the United States is not preparing […]

For the last few days, I’ve been spending a lot of time reading through the chat that was generated parallel to the K12 Online Conference opening presentation.  I’m inserting my 2¢ worth where I can, and am posting the transcript as a wiki for you to read and insert — continue the conversation.
One thing that […]

I’m writing, again today, at the risk of offending some very fine people — and that is certainly not my intent.  But I am concerned enough to risk it.  I am in, what appears to be northeastern Wisconsin.  I drove through about an hour and a half of it yesterday on my way to my […]

I’m in Moose Lick, Wisconsin — where they don’t have Internet.  It’s actually not Moose Lick, and it’s probably only this hotel that doesn’t have Internet.  When I checked in yesterday afternoon, and asked about it, the young man said that it was wireless.  After working for about an hour on the chat transcript from […]

I’ve switched off the chat for the K12 Online Conference opening presentation.  I promised it would be up for 24 to 48 hours.  Right now, I’m going through the chat, deleting out what seems extraneous, and adding in my own comments.  This will all be placed on a wiki page for all to see very […]

Yesterday I spoke to a gathering of Superintendents from North Carolina, the Superintendents Quarterly Meeting.  I had the same experience there that I’ve had with the two school board association presentations that I’ve delivered.  They’re on board.  They get it.  They know we have to move forward.  But they answer to someone else.  Several superintendents […]

Teachers watching the Opening K12 Online Conference presentation from Bangkok.

I leave in just a few minutes to talk about “Our Students • Our Worlds” to the Superintendents Quarterly Meeting here in Raleigh — a meeting of the district superintendents across North Carolina, from Murphy to Manteo, as they say.  But what’s really got me thinking […]

Special Instructions:

As you watch the video, during the first 24 to 48 hours, go to the session chat, register, and post questions, comments, and additions, as they occur to you.
If you use Twitter, then post comments, while watching, that would be of value to your followers.
If you blog or podcast about the session, tag your […]

This is how I know when my kids are home from college.

I received an e-mail yesterday with a link to this article The New Literacies from District Administration, and was very happy to read it and to realize that school administrators are also reading it.
The New Literacies:
Foundational or traditional literacy is about print on a […]

When I graduated from high school, history was probably the very last subject I thought I would ever be interested in pursuing. All of my social studies teachers had also been coaches, and, with the exception of one, they were primarily coaches.  Being a bad teacher would never have gotten them fired. Being […]

Almost by definition, the K12 Online Conference will be extended.  It will be extensive.  As I was writing yesterday about extending conferences using new web tools, an article inspired by Alex Regone and Arvind Grover’s podcast, an idea occurred to me for seperating out tagged conversations about the individual presentations for the conference.
K12Online organizers have […]