Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Yes, I’m in Hershey, Pennsylvania, for the 2006 Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference. Last night I had dinner with some old and new friends. They included folks at the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit and people from the Penn Department of Education. The conversations were down to earth, way out there with […]

Jude2004 celebrated his 51st birthday yesterday. In his comment on Act like Natives, he (or she) claims to know more about technology than his students. He claims to be a native. Do I believe him? I sure do.
Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting to nearly 200 school technology contact people […]

Many many thanks to Wes Fryer for podcasting David Thornburg’s presentation at the TCEA conference last week in Austin. I can remember watching folks like Thornburg and Alan November back ten years ago, and saying to myself, “I could do that! And I think I could do it that well!” Both of […]

Typically, I wake up early in the morning with my mind already working on ideas. I don’t really know when the focus on what I’m going to blog this morning clamps off that mushy thought flow that is my dream state, but the ideas start to emerge. It usually begins small, “So what […]

I woke this morning with rather more solid ground under my feet than usual, because I woke up thinking about the past. I’m a peculiar sort of edgeek, because, unlike so many ed tech’ers who came out of business education and math, I use to be a history teacher. But it makes sense […]

I’ve been holding out on this one, because I still do not have my mind wrapped around it. But because of an article I ran across in Digg yesterday, I decided it was time to let loose. I am reading a book right now, one that was recommended to me by Doug Johnson. […]

I received an e-mail yesterday from an educator in Charlotte, NC, where I spoke to district principals this summer (the stockcar theme was great fun). I thought that I would pose my response as a blog entry and invite others to chime in.

(obligatory kindnesses) …You were the first person I thought of when I […]

Lyn Carlisle, a teacher at my son’s high school, pointed me to this Friedman article, Calling All Luddites. All I can add is “Right on!”, and “hope we aren’t too late!”
Friedman opens with:
I’ve been thinking of running for high office on a one-issue platform: I promise, if elected, that within four years America will […]

This is an interesting link sent to me by photographer and ed tech leader, Jay Bryant. Read the following excerpt from a July 13 Fujitsu press release:
Tokyo, July 13, 2005 — Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Fujitsu Frontech Limited, and Fujitsu Limited today announced their joint development of the world’s first film substrate-based bendable color electronic […]

Steve Dembo posted his latest podcast yesterday. With most educators on break now and taking some time off from edutech stuff, I am on the edge of my seat looking and waiting for new education programs. Steve’s latest is well worth the wait. In his easy style, yet thought-provoking way of speaking […]

Last night, Gordon Dahlby posted the following message to the WWWEDU list. This is candy for me, and I am posting my response to the weblog.
On Jul 2, 2005, at 6:28 PM, Gordon Dahlby wrote:
What would a wikipedia type textbook look like? Such as, what would we need to create a wikipedia-type 1-9th […]