Blog Juice for Educational Technology

School’s out for most of us. Educators across the northern hemisphere are relaxing for the first time in months, looking forward to a month or a little more of R&R, sitting by the pool in sunglasses, or taking a vacation or a fact-finding tour of Paris, London, Tokyo, or some other exotic locale that […]

There are many ways that we might take NECC to new dimensions through its wireless access to the World Wide Web, especially version two of this digital space. But perhaps the simplest and most potent way is by blogging the sessions that you attend. So here are some steps and pointers for blogging […]

Several days ago, Andy Carvin blogged about the June 2nd birth of his daughter, Kayleigh. In his article, he speculated about the advances in educational technology that will likely occur while his little one is in school.
On Saturday, June 10th, my son, Martin, graduated from high school. It would be very easy for […]

I wanted to double and triple check this before I blogged it, but it’s been confirmed from the very highest levels. NECC 2006, San Diego, will be wireless. All of the session rooms will be wireless with a hard wire Ethernet connection for presenters.
The NECC folks are also working with the San Diego […]

I listened to an incredible podcast the other day. It was Part 3 of Dean Shareski’s Telling the new Story series, an interview with award-winning Canadian educator, Clarence Fisher. I was glued to my headphones for the entire interview, listening to stories from a unique professional who gets the new information environment and […]

I have had the opportunity, twice in the last several weeks, to talk about the new story of 21st century education in workshop settings. Because these experiences were conversations rather than presentations and because, in both instances, the audiences were self-selected tech-savvy and forward thinking professional educators, I had a unique chance to reflect […]

Last night I attended the bi-monthly Raleigh Blogger Meetup in the WiFi rich Cafe Cyclo, a combination coffeeshop and Vietnamese restaurant. Cool!
I’ve attended a number of these. It’s a personal challenge. All of the other attendees are deep inside the technology industry. They’re mostly programmers, working for Sun Microsystems, IBM, BB&T, […]

After following Roger Stack’s comments in one of Vicki Davis’ blog posts, I revisited Stack’s Holistic and Integral Education blog — to discover that he’s talking about The New Story. Seems that on April 22, he took up my challenge and hacked my story. He even hacked my graphic. I like it.
I’ve […]

Vicki David, the Cool Cat Teacher, wrote a great post yesterday about cyber cheating and teaching honesty to our students.
Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Candid Cheating with the Camera Phone?:
We’re paying for kill switches, security cameras, aplagiarismism checkers (turnitin.com) to keep students honest! How about kids just being honest?

Here is an edited version of my comment […]

One month from now, I’ll be at NECC. Certainly the richest and deepest educational technology conference, probably in the world, NECC offers more to more people about new technologies in education than any other event, and it proves each year to be exhaustingly exhilarating experience — almost a high.
During most years the conference becomes […]

This is a truly comprehensive conversation with a teacher, Clarence Fisher, who has been exploring pretty deeply the use of Web 2.0 in his middle school classroom. 
Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech » Telling the new story Part 3 Podcast 18:
Here is the last of my interviews with teachers telling the new story of […]

I’ve been attending the eLIVE conference in Edinburgh. Well, I’ve actually been spending my eighteen-hour work days lately moving web sites to my new honkin’ dedicated server and programming. But, I’ve seen the conference, through “elive” tagged pictures in flickr, and through the bloggings of Will Richardson, Ian Mcintosh, David Muir, and John […]

I’ve been attending the eLIVE conference in Edinburgh. Well, I’ve actually been spending my eighteen-hour work days lately moving web sites to my new honkin’ dedicated server and programming. But, I’ve seen the conference, through “elive” tagged pictures in flickr, and through the bloggings of Will Richardson, Ian Mcintosh, David Muir, and John […]