Blog Juice for Educational Technology

This, which I learned about from one of my favorite science communicators, Bora Zivkovic (A Blog Around the Clock), excites me on several levels.  But principly, I see a group of educators, who have met, discussed, taught, and learned, and then have come to agreement and published, globally, a document of demand for the sake […]

During a conversation that I had yesterday with Owatanna Schools’ Superintendent, Tom Tapper, he described how his four year old grandson was using Webkinz, a recent arrival (April 2005) to the virtual pets genre of children’s web destinations and current obsession for thousands of young children.  There’s been much written about concerns over the time […]

This is another of those blog posts that may fall under the, “Where has Dave been for the past year!”  But I was mildly intrigued by a conversation I had with one of the attendees of yesterday Science Blogging Conference, a science educator.  He was telling me about his program’s plans to start helping youngsters […]

I’m sitting in my favorite seat (far back right corner — so that I can see, hear, and reach the power supply) in Auditorium B for the Science Blogging Ethics, moderated by Janet D. Stemwedel. My plan is to be taking notes on this blog article and then post it every fifteen minutes or […]

The conference started today with hands-on workshops for blogging beginners this morning and tours of some Research Triangle Park labs this afternoon. I had enormous fun, spending two hours at the DIVE, the Duke Immersive Virtual Environment.  One of a half dozen or so CAVEs in the world, it was like SecondLife with glasses instead […]

I had a virtual conversation, the other day, with a group of media specialists near Minneapolis.  I enjoyed the warmth of my tiny basement office, while they had 4 degree temeratures facing them (-16c).  Alas, I’ll be flying to Minneapolis on Sunday (high of 4 degrees).
To the right is a picture that one of […]

Scott McLeod (Dangerously Irrelevant) has opened up his second annual Education Blogosphere Survey.  I think that it is interesting and useful to have information about a particular portion of the blogging community, especially one that is so information and communication intensive.
You can click the graphic to the right to participate.  It’s four screens and 25 […]

It has been wonderful to enjoy what is almost a routine over the past many weeks.  But the holidays are over.  It first hit when Martin went back to school and it was just me and Brenda (and the dog) left.  But today’s the last day for many weeks that I’m not either presenting or […]

I’ve read through the debate going on at the Economist web site between Ewan McIntosh and Michael Bugeja, about social networking and education. I have not had time, however, to read the entire conversation that is expanding around it.
I got pulled back into the conversation yesterday afternoon, when I took a few minutes away […]

Welcome to the daily news scene from almost a hundred years ago, as photographed by the Bain News Service in about 1910-1912.
This is the opening text of the posted description for 25 pages of black and white images that dramatically illustrate our history. Does this come from the Library of Congress, or from Flickr? […]

Like many my age, virtual environments do not really excite me all that much.  I’m intrigued by the technology of something like Second Life, it’s potentials, and to some extent, I understand its appeal.  But I come from a generation of information consumers.  I’m much happier reading a good book, or watching a good movie […]

This is me, on my way out the door to start my 2008 tour
I wish I could say that I’m fully rested, recreated, and 100% enthused about hitting the road again.  I can’t.  I’ve gotten to accustomed to almost having a routine.
Yet, along with the waits a security, the evenings in a hotel room, […]

I just re-read Sunday’s blog post and the 18 comments that have been added to date.  My own comment, responding to many of the criticisms, is number 19.  But the one criticism that resonated most with me, which was probably most directly implied by Vejreska — well, I’d like to talk here on the surface […]