Blog Juice for Educational Technology

I received word this week that one of my session proposals was accepted for the 2008 National educational Technology Conference in San Antonio.  Brenda’s already booked me a hotel, and blocked off the dates, so I look forward to seeing many of you there in June!
I’ve also added a Hitchhikr entry for the conference and […]

David Jakes of The Strength of Weak Ties, posted a great article in the TechLearning Blog this week, The Kids are Alright. He refers to a new blog called Students 2.0 (http://students2oh.org/). Here is the “About Us” caption in the right panel of the blog page.
We are students: the ones who come to […]

Plucked from my aggregator at 5:56 AM:
April 2008. That’s the date when the notoriously progressive Dutch government goes open source. The plan was approved unanimously yesterday in a meeting of two parliamentary commissions. The policy dictates that government organizations at the national level must be ready to save documents in the Open Document Format (ODF) […]

This is an event that I can enthusiastically recommend.  Their first one, 2007, was held on a cold day on the campus of the University of North Carolina.  The energy made the air hum as scientist, science educators, and science journalists gathered to talk, share, and learn about blogging and other collaborative tools for doing […]

I did a quick scan of my aggregator last night, just before going to bed — and I just have to say how wonderful it is to have time to scan my aggregator.  I was stopped by this post from Jeff Utecht of The Thinking Stick.

While sitting in a taxi the other day I noticed […]

You may have noticed that I’ve been playing around with Wordpress Themes.  It relaxes me.  I’m hoping, as well, that using a much more minimal design and removing a lot of the RSS twitching I had going on in the sidebar would improve the performance — I’m hoping.
I’ve left the basics in the sidebar here, […]

Tiger Butter Cooling in the Frig…

Today is our annual reunion and holiday celebration of employees and alumni of the media and technology services (now, Instructional Technology Division) of the NC Department of Public Instruction.  It’s a covered dish where collards will be welcomed from Margaret Bingham, cheese cake from John Brim, and other regular and […]

This from Game On: Games in Libraries.
Game On: Games in Libraries: w00t!:
Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is “w00t!” Further proof that gaming is ubiquitous and invading pop culture. Full article at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071211/ap_on_re_us/word_of_the_year

According to the article, “W00t” is a hybrid of letters and numbers used by gamers as an exclamation of happiness or triumph — for […]

I do not like to talk, here at 2¢ Worth, about activities with my clients unless they are very successful.  It is not that I don’t want to talk about it, when things do not go well.  I simply don’t want to reflect negatively on the client.  So I usually wait a few weeks to […]

I’ll be delivering an ISTE Webinar later this afternoon, and it occured to me last night that I might try to suggest some instructional uses of blogs aligned with the new ISTE NETS Refresh. I’m including them here as a reference for the Webinar participants and for you.

Creativity & Innovation
Assignment:
In the coming weeks, major […]

Will Richardson just shouted out into the Twitterverse for our gear lists for Christmas. I may add to this list — but at the moment, all I can think of is a gear-free vacation.
Ahhhhh!

Blogging Station at the Courtyard Hotel by the Philadelphia Airport

First of all, congratulations to all of the winners of the EduBlog awards, and especially to all of those who were nominated.  While I’m at it, congratulations to all of you bloggers who been doing this for some time, who have contributed in large, small, supportive, […]

The recent National Endowment for the Arts study, To Read or Not To Read, has reared its disturbing head again.  When it was first announced, I chose not to comment.  No need, Alfie Kohn, delivered my knee jerk reaction much more eloquently than I could have, in Do Kids Read Less for Fun? Blame […]