Blog Juice for Educational Technology

My Dad would say, “You’re in High Cotton, son!”  Snap, and I’ve left Greensboro, North Carolina, and landed at The Broadmoor Hotel near Colorado Springs.  It was late when I got here last night and still dark this morning, so I haven’t seen the place from the outside.  But this is the first hotel room […]

Before I get to the point of that title, I have to say something about the great day I had, yesterday, delivering four presentations: video games, wikis, a new session about SecondLife, and a featured address about the future, our kids, our information environment, and flat classrooms.  It was a great day because I had […]

I just met the hotel newspaper fairy, while stepping out of the elevator, after going all the way down to the 9th floor to find a working ice machine.  He’s short, wears round-rimed glasses, and has combed back black hair that sweeps back into wings above each ear.  He seems to wear a uniform, though […]

In his now famous video, “Did You Know?,” Karl Fisch starts with a slide that states, “Sometimes Size Does Matter!”

This photo shows a small group of educators, networking at the EduBloggerCon at NECC in June.  The picture was taken and contributed by Steve Dembo.

Last week (or maybe it was three weeks ago) I was delivering […]

When I woke up this morning, I had no idea I had this much writing in me.
I finally watched last week’s debate at NYSCATE between Gary Stager and Will Richardson. I was not surprised to hear my name invoked, though it was startling to hear it as an impetus of that event […]

While sitting and waiting for the folks who are hosting my web servers to finish up some sort of network configuration, I decided to do my little term search through the concurrent sessions that will be offered at the North Carolina ed tech conference this week, NCETC.
I searched for several terms that occurred to me […]

Tammy Worcester in 2006.  Tammy will be back this year as a featured speaker.

Next week is my state’s largest ed tech conference, the North Carolina Educational Technology Conference or NCETC.  Held at the Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, this conference attracts thousands of educators from across NC, and also South Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee.  Well, […]

I’m sitting in the Hampton Inn in historic Elizabeth City, North Carolina.  I’m leaving our room quiet and without a glaring desk lamp, and escaping to this spacious lobby (and the ubiquitous Law & Ordewr in the background) to prepare for one of my first-time presentations for next week’s NCETC, my states largest educational technology […]

Jeff Utecht’s quite unique mind is at it again.  Reading through his Men’s Health magazine, he ran across a Honda ad that spoke to him not just about motorcycles.  You see, Jeff had also been navigating his aggregator.  So lots of education related ideas were also intermingling with two-wheeled transport and advertizing.  The result was […]

Hmmmm!  Is this what we’re doing?  …Juggling in the airport?

The other day, I was working at the North Carolina School Library Media Association conference in Winston-Salem.  There are basically two school library conferences in this state.  In the Fall, it’s the NCSLMA conference, and in the Spring we have the NCAECT.  The NCSLMA is usually […]

I got this note yesterday from my friend, Jeff Whipple, in Fredericton, Canada.
I have heard a lot about e-paper over the last couple of years, but hadn’t really seen much evidence as to the possibilities of it replacing traditional paper - until now.

You can read the rest of his notes at his blog, Whip Blog… […]

Miguel Guhlin (Around the Corner V2) tells a wonderful story about his daughter’s work on KidPub, “..the world’s largest online collection of stories written by kids for kids!”  She wrote a story for KidPub called in the Middle, about a family of five children, two identical twins, the oldest, two more identical twins, the youngest, […]

I just finished a presentation for the Clinton City Schools in Sampson County, North Carolina.  This morning session was with central office staff and school principals.  But at least half of the audience was made up of community members, parents, board members, and presidents of the local PTOs. 
It was a fun presentation.  But the […]