Blog Juice for Educational Technology

I had a great time on Thursday afternoon recording an episode of my podcast in front of a live audience.
My first guest was Sonny Portacio, geocacher and Director of Technology for the Escondido Union High School District. Sonny has been doing a ton of work with geocaching lately. He’s created a wiki site for collecting […]

I had a great time presenting at NECC on Wednesday. I captured the audio (albeit in a low-quality version) and attached my Keynote slides as an enhanced podcast. I’m also linking to a pure audio MP3 version in case your computer can’t handle AAC-encoded media.
I posted the links for my talk previously, so please have […]

My family and I arrived in San Diego last night, and I’m busily putting the final touches on my presentations for this year’s NECC. If you’re interested in seeing a session that I’ll be doing, check out one of the following:

Introducing the Read/Write Web: Challenges, Opportunities, and Implications, July 5, 2:00–3:00, Room 6D
Learning To Go: […]

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!

technorati tags:necc, necc06, blogging, education

Konrad Glogowski has an amazing post today about his grade 8 students’ blogging experiences, and it’s one that should be trumpeted far and wide in this community. Imagine being a part of this:
My community of grade eight student bloggers became so big and so engaging that I spent every spare moment reading and writing within […]

So we’ve got buttons! 1,000 of them to give away at NECC in fact. They’ll be at the Open Source lab starting on Tuesday. (And Steve Hargadon was nice enough to ante up the $335 to get them made, so maybe we can figure out a way to make sure he gets paid back.) The […]

Editor and Publisher reports that Digg.com, a Web site that ranks and displays news items based on recommendations from its users, is expanding to include video and topics beyond technology. Currently, users are limited to posting and reading items on security, digital music, robots and other tech-related categories.

Beginning Monday, they will be able to post and have access to world, business and entertainment news, along with non-news video. Games and science also will break out of the general technology section.

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Clarence shares some answers to his Podcasting, Blogging Exam Question, and my favorite without question is
“…..now that we have podcasting and blogging anyone can do it. You don’t need to be some rich person in New York, you can produce from your own home. It has also changed how we can learn in today’s society.”
Amen. […]

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 […]

Yesterday, Bud pointed to the work of Karl Fisch in Centennial, Co, and although I had seen Karl’s name popping up in various spots and I think even linked to him on a couple of occasions, Bud urged me to “Pay attention” to Karl’s work. So, this morning, I did some digging around “The Fischbowl.”
The […]

(via Tim Wilson) So Moodle released 1.6 yesterday with a blog feature that I think is a pretty good start though I wish the following options were available per post instead of globally per blog:

The World can read entries set to be world-accessible

All site users can see all blog entries

Users can only see blogs for […]

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 […]