Blog Juice for Educational Technology

newsobserver.com | Dropout rate, suspensions on rise in N.C.:
North Carolina high school students are dropping out in increasing numbers despite more efforts to keep them in school, prompting frustrated education leaders to call for raising the minimum dropout age from 16 to 18.

This is the opening paragraph of a story that appeared in today’s News […]

I heard, a few days ago, from a teacher who was using Class Blogmeister, even though it was being blocked by their school district.  The teacher gives assignments, which students submit and engage in conversations about outside of the classroom.  The other day, she wrote:
..we had a snow day so the students were off. That […]

Rob Barth, an attendee of some of the sessions I did at METC over the past couple of days, shared a web site that enables us to compare various wiki tools.  The site, WikiMatrix, lists dozens of wiki farms and wiki engines, from which you select the ones you want to compare.  Both PBWiki and […]

So nice to be at home for the morning.  I’m not complaining about the travel, though.  METC was a blash, where I had so many mind stretching conversations with folks from Mid America.  I also got to spend some time with David Jakes, Steve Dembo, Joyce Valenza and others.
This morning I got an e-mail from […]

Andrew Keen’s Statements

David Weinberger’s Statements

Last Thursday, I posted my notes from Andrew Keens presentation at the Ontario Library Association conference in Toronto.  What’s in that blog are some fairly word-for-word quotes from his address, where I think he drew some unfair and one-sided conclusions from valid and very well delivered arguments.
Last […]

There’s a question at the end of this post!

I’m trying something different today in my Web 2.0 workshop.  I’m going PowerPoint’less.  No don’t get me wrong.  This is not an indictment of PowerPoint.  I do not believe that PowerPoint is evil.  This is something that Stephen Heppell taught me the other day, and he used […]