Blog Juice for Educational Technology

I just finished my three-day stint at the High School’s New Face conference and I have to say I’m impressed and encouraged by the conversations here. Last night at dinner, people said their eyes had been opened and that for many at least, they felt had a real chance to make some changes at their […]

So this “High School’s New Face” Conference has been really interesting and another example of how the people out here in Western New York are working hard to move schools and education in a different direction. There are about 150 educators here with each school bringing at team of teachers and a building principal or […]

Welcome to Ellicottville, NY where I have about 30 teachers and administrators in the room for the first session of what will be three days of immersion into blogs, wikis, podcasts, rss feeds, social bookmarking sites etc. AND pedagogy! (What a concept.)
So before we set up Blogger blogs, I give them my impassioned warning about […]

Jeff Utecht was left hoping for more last week at NECC.
I saw a lot of technology being used and sold in the same way it has been for the past 20 years. Maybe I wasn’t listening to the right conversations, but the feel of something different wasn’t there…for me anyway.
And he asks if maybe he […]

I’ve been called a lot of things, but this description in the Los Angeles Times blog School Me! Adventures in Education takes it, I think. It’s a pretty interesting wrap up of NECC by Bob Sipchen who I met after my presentation, and you’ll have to read to the end to get to the good […]

So here is another example of the ways in which teachers can be more imaginative with their curriculum and students can get an opportunity to teach. Mathcasts.org is a wiki that is collecting examples of student produced screencasts about math related topics. Most of these are done with a graphics tablet, but I would think […]

Now that was an EdBlogger Meetup.
About 40 people or so showed up to the Rock Bottom last night to share stories and ideas about their use of blogs in their personal practice and in their schools, and to just do what is the most fun about coming to conferences like this: say hello, place the […]

It has been such a fun and crazed two days so far, and I wish I had more time to blog about the buzz here, but this ought to give you a sense of what’s happening. The US Department of Education is here talking about an interesting vision for “School 2.0″ that it’s been working […]

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On the plane out to San Diego I got the chance to watch Sir Ken Robinson’s great presentation at the TED conference (Technology Entertainment and Design). It’s a pretty powerful call to “radically rethink our view on intelligence” and “rethink the fundamental principles on which we are educating our children” to move toward a much […]

Well, it’s off to NECC we go. I can’t believe how much Read/Write Web stuff is going on. As David’s quick research shows , it’s clear that we’re not the new kids on the block anymore. About time. We’ve got everything from “Blogging for Peace” to “Blogging for International Audiences” to “Blogging for Dinner.” Well, […]

 Maybe I was dreaming, but I seem to recall a few weeks back someone linking to a teacher who had set up a page in MySpace for a character his students were reading about (or something like that.) Ring any bells? Anyone?

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If you haven’t added your name to the list for our Thursday night EdBlogger meetup in San Diego, get to it! It’s shaping up to be a big event. Wear your buttons!

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