Blog Juice for Educational Technology

I’m just now back from Asheville, where we visited with my daughter and got to see her appartment .  I have to say that it was one of those weird father things to visit your oldest’s apartment. 
It was a nice visit, owing in no small part to how much Brenda and I love Asheville […]

Warning: Some time shifting in this article.
It’s early Saturday morning (on the East Coast of the United States), but I am being reminded that it is not that time or even that day in other parts of the world.  First? I downloaded Twittervision 3D,  which is a screen saver version of the timewasters at Twittervision.  […]

I’ve been reading a lot this morning and finding some ideas congealing in my head. Writing about them seems to be coming a lot harder. As I struggle with it, here’s a little piece that in some important ways, starts to express them, from Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends, a cool example of crowd […]

A couple of days ago, I commented on UMPCs and how close they are to the tablets I described in my 2004 book, Redefining Literacy.  Part of that book was a future fiction of a 2014 middle school classroom. 
Another feature of that room and many classrooms were permenantly installed video cameras enabling parents and […]

California ed tech consultant, Mark Wagner, has an opportunity to help shape a fall conference in his state, The California League of Middle Schools and High Schools.  I can say from experience that this is a fantastic conference, because it is a teachers conference, rather than a technologist’s conference.  Plus, it’s held in Monterey.
Mark […]

As I’ve mentioned before, my daughter has started her student teaching in a high school in the mountains.  We’ve had a number of short conversations, mostly her describing potential lessons, which are quite creative, and me pointing out potential shortfalls and making suggestions.  Very little to nothing about technology.  That would require too much conversation […]

The first chapter of my book, Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century (Linworth 2004), is a future fiction about a middle school class in 2014. The story was originally written as a thought exercise for me as I prepared the planning and writing of the book. After reading it, my editor asked that […]

I just took a quick tour of Wikia and reading a couple of articles (SearchEngineWatch & NYTimes) and I’m both intrigued and skeptical.  But this and other things that are happening keep reminding me that there are some pretty concrete and fairly well articulated models out there for engaged learning — where students and teachers […]

There is an article today at the Boston Globe web site about how colleges are using web tools to recruit students.  I linked to Colleges turn to Web tools in hunt for ‘08 freshmen through eSchoolNews and found it interesting in light of conversations I have had at a number of colleges in the last […]

Ewan McIntosh posed a question in Twitter this morning, about the effect that social networks might have on education.  Although there is a certain amount of appropriateness to using this avenue, 140 characters just doesn’t seem enough.  I sent a string of tweets, but it made me want to pull out this piece that I’ve […]

I just submitted the upcoming Educon 2.0 conference on Hitchhikr. The URL is:
http://hitchhikr.com/?id=315
Although I’ll only be able to attend one day of the conference, I am certainly looking forward to the conversations and being in the midst of so many really smart people.
I just noticed that there is now an Educon group on Facebook. […]

This afternoon, I will attend an event that is both happy and sad.  Friends and colleagues will be celebrating Frances Bradburns many years of professional service to education in North Carolina and way beyond.  She is retiring, and many of us are not happy about it.  It seems that her accomplishments are at their peak.  […]

A few weeks ago, I mentioned  an upcoming conference in my area (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill), the North Carolina Science Blogging Conference.  I will be facilitating a session called Teaching Science: using online tools in the science classroom, and like most of the other sessions, it will be unconference in nature.  In other words, my job will […]