Blog Juice for Educational Technology

The past two entries have concerned pre-service technology training — a request from a friend by e-mail, who is preparing for an upcoming “technology in education” course. In the answers, the words innovation and inventiveness have appeared in a number of comments. I’d like to ask two more questions, and welcome comments:

During the […]

I don’t think I’ve ever had so many comments posted so quickly, as with yesterdays call for ideas on pre-service tech skills. All eight of my readers commented on the same day. What I am adding here is going in both as a comment for yesterday’s post and as a new post. […]

I received a message this morning from a teacher I met a few months ago at a conference in New England. Here is part of the message.

…I am a technology integration specialist in a middle school in Maine. I will be teaching a course for a local private college next semester for pre-service k-8 […]

The following is moblogged, so there may be some misspellings or awkward wordings.
I’m sitting in the keynote address at the New York TechForum, from Technology & Learning Magazine. The speaker is Bernie Trilling. Mr. Trilling is in charge of Think.com and ThinkQuest. It was interesting to watch their current Thinkquest promotional video. […]

The District Conference

It’s the second day of the Technology Leadership Conference in Davidson County, NC. By accounts, it’s a success. There are three board members here today who heard about yesterday’s success at a school meeting last night.
The presenters appear to be about 2/3 venders and 1/3 local educators, with a couple of […]

I’m sitting in a presentation by Acacia Dixon from the NC Department of Public Instruction. She is talking about Geocaching in the classroom (or outside the classroom). I’ve known Acacia a long time, and have known about her passion for this technology. This is my first time seeing her presentation. So […]

First of all, you probably see a slightly different look to my blog pages. I changed my theme when I realized a few days ago, that the sidebar wasn’t acting right with Microsoft IE browsers. So I switched to one of the more common default themes for Wordpress, and it seems to come […]

Chris Harris, of Infomancy, and currently attending the E-Learning Symposium in New York, quoted one of my recent posts about the time we spend teaching and the time our students spend learning. He supports my assertions by quoting Alan November (this always makes me look good). He (Chris) says

Learning can take place many […]

I’m sitting still for a few minutes here at the Minnesota Educational Media Organization (MEMO) conference in Mankato. The talk went well this morning, and I followed it with a workshop called “Harnessing the Digital Landscape”. Somehow, it ended with a tutorial on producing a podcast — I don’t know how that happened.
A […]

I took yesterday off, recovering from the canceled flights, three-hour taxi rides, and two-and-a-half hours of sleep from my calamitous Watertown, New York trip — where, by the way, I made a lot of great new friends. Taking the day off from programming, I’d figured that I would be able to write a nice […]

Jon Pederson wrote a blog yesterday (Challenge to the “New Information Environment”) about literacy in the “New Information Environment”. In it, he mentioned me and Will Richardson (hey, I’m going to notice any mention of me and Will Richardson in the same article), and other luminaries, in a discussion of literacy. I would […]

I posted an entry on Friday (The Ethics of Anonymity), that I expected a lot more responses on than I did. Either, being Friday, people were too busy trying to end the week on a positive note, or my topic wasn’t as controversial as I’d thought.
I have facilitated a number of extended workshops in […]

Before you read this, understand that I am neither a lawyer nor a philosopher, and the information here should not be construed as expert. Weigh it on its own merit. I’m just someone who likes to think about stuff.
I got up early this morning to respond to a comment I received many days […]