Blog Juice for Educational Technology

MIT’s OpenCourseWare project recently added its 1,800th course.  Started in 2001, MITs OCW has grown from 50 courses to virtually their entire undergraduate and graduate curriculum.  The content is out there.  The learning is out there.  As long as we insist on thinking of education as being something that happens in here — in the […]

John Lennon (1940 - 1980) was murdered today, 27 years ago.  His image, words, and impact continue today — and continue to be a resonating chord in the music of American and world culture.
Garr Reynolds, at Presentation Zen, points to some YouTube videos that may be worth viewing on this day, and a web site, […]

Partly as an avoidance of the mountain of e-mail I have waiting for me, I took a little more than an hour, this morning, scanning through Google Reader.  It may be the tail end of an exhausting travel schedule or perhaps I’m at the age, now, where I have the right to start thinking, sometimes […]

Yesterday was a good day in Tampa, Florida. The keynote (New Literacy) was well received, and I had the opportunity to talk about the issues of literacy and the changing shape of information during two breakout sessions after the keynote. One thing you can say about school board members is that they ask […]

I suspect that I’ve been treating teachers a bit harshly over the past few weeks, reporting on conversations that are happening in conjunction with work I’m doing with education leaders (administrators and school board members).  They’ve asked many times and in many places, “How are we going to get teachers to start teaching this way […]

Most of my presentations are fairly geographic in focus.  They happen at a place and at a time, and for only a few people.  On Tuesday, December 11, I’ll be doing an online Webinar for ISTE, called “The Teacher’s Guide to Classroom Blogging.” ( 1 pm Pacific / 2 pm Mountain / 3 pm Central […]

Did you know that nearly three fifths of all undergraduate students enrolled in 2004 were women (57%).  This is a trend that’s been knocked around for months, but I just ran across it from a kids’ site — a kids’ site maintained by the federal government. 
NCES Kids’ Zone Home Page:
The NCES Kids’ Zone provides […]