Blog Juice for Educational Technology

I am hungry for a good Mac OSX desktop blog editing program. I’ve tried lots, but I suspect not all. Here are the features I crave, though probably not all of them.

Spell Check
Right-click speech
Drag & Drop images with alignment options
Browser access
Blog this features
Wordpress compliant
Technorati Tags Generator
Must be able to display the cents symbol […]

I ran across this report while scanning this week’s Tech Learning News.
Only 26 percent of U.S. schools require students to take computer science courses, according to a report released last week.

Most cite lack of time in students’ schedules, according to the computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA). Though computer use pervades almost every aspect […]

Julie Lindsay just posted on her blog, the list of NECC attendees who have registered as official volunteer bloggers. Link to Lindsey’s blog for the list.

This list arrived an hour ago from the Web Marketing Manager at ISTE, Barbara Hewick. It is a list of volunteer bloggers and podcasters for the NECC06 conference in […]

I’m in Atlanta, Georgia for the Discovery Educator Southeast Regional Institute (tag: denri & denri06). I was able to visit some old friends and to make some new ones last night at a desert social. I’m sorry that I didn’t take any pictures of the food. There were some awesome chocolate brownies, a totally rich […]

If you had suggested to me, three years ago, that I would be blogging a conference, I would have said, “Wha…?” Yet, I think that the potentials of conferences that are wireless, with reflective participants blogging their notes and their insights about what they are learning ** IS HUGE **. The information, ideas, […]

I was just going through the ALA Annual conference web site this morning and discovered the paragraph below.  This could be a trend.  Better yet, this could be a movement.  OK, most of you don’t get the reference to Alice’s Restaurant, but it’s huge. 
ALA
has contracted with the Morial Convention Center to provide wifi access
at […]

Read/WriteWeb blogger, Richard MacManus, reviewed eBay’s new wiki last week. It will almost certainly be the largest wiki platform for a commercial website.
Here’s a quote from MacManus’ article:
Sowhy did eBay choose to add a wiki? eBay has a buyer and sellercommunity of more than 193 million members - a huge community that isthriving with […]

Chris Lehmann was interviewed yesterday on what appears to be the NEW EdTechTalk, sub-titled, 21st Century Learning Webcast — anchored now by Alex Ragone and Arvind Grover.
Principal of the soon to open, and certainly to be “something new,” high school, the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, Lehmann answered some pointed questions, such as, “What’s an […]

Our favorite Cool Cat Teacher (Vicki Davis), has challenged us to find our favorite 2005-2006 blog posting. I spent an evening in front of three episodes of The West Wing (Season 5), skimming through my school year writing, and identified a goodly number of posts that I was pretty happy about. Then culled […]

I’m way behind on this one, though just in time for NECC06.  I just ran into a March blog from the Cool Cat Teacher (Georgia educator, Vicki Davis) and it looks like great advice for educators learning to blog this summer.  This would make a fantastic Handout.

Ten habits of bloggers that win!
Cool Cat Teacher Blog: […]

MySpace now has 72 million users1. That is larger than the populations of 213 countries2. Perhaps we could deal with the social online networks thing if we thought of it for what it is — MyNation. This is their digital nation. They are citizens, and they’ve never been taught digital civics.

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I haven’t had a chance to read all of them, but this comment, from Deborah Gast, one of the attendees of yesterday blogging workshop in Chapel Hill, caught my attention.
But in our schools we make some learners teachers.
Sometimes they talk and talk.
Sometimes they show and show.
Sometimes they pass out papers.
Sometimes they test the other learners.
Sometimes […]

I am in Chapel Hill, working with educators from the Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools, and I am telling them my Podcastercon story. In summary, I presented a session at January’s Podcastercon about podcasting and education. As soon as the 90 minute session was over, I checked my aggregator and there were already […]