Blog Juice for Educational Technology

37 Signals, maker of other innovative web-based tools, has decided to enter the K-12 market with its new product, Chalksite. Chalksite allows teachers to manage classes and grades, send messages, post assignments, and create blogs and web pages. There is a free version as well as four tiered pricing levels;…

Schools and districts are required, both legally and professionally / ethically / morally, to monitor employee and student use of technology tools when those tools are used for professional or instructional purposes. School organizations that don’t must face the legal and public relations ramifications of ignoring potential employee / student…

Ever read an email and been hurt by something in the message only to find out the writer didn’t have that intent? Or discovered that your message had unintended negative effects? Lena Winerman of the APA Monitor has a column out on the research of psychologist Justin Kruger and Nicholas…

Thomas Friedman’s book The World is Flat is all about what is happening now that the digital revolution has made it possible to work instantaneously with people on the other side of the world. One of these possibilities is posted at Wired Newsand describesthe link between 12-year-old Princeton in Glenview,…

This information from PC-World: YOKOHAMA, JAPAN — E Ink, a U.S.-based developer of electronic-paper type flat-panel displays, has developed a color version of its screen technology and is showing it at the FPD International exhibition that opened Wednesday in here. Full article:http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123090,00.asp…

Are you, your staff, or your students using blogs? If so, check out Jakob Nielsen’s blog usability guidelines. I’m guessing you’ll take away at least one important idea for your blog(s)… Good stuff!…

CIO Magazine has a great article on the value and power of making IT management transparent to employees, customers, and/or vendors. I love this quote: Transparency liberates the CIO. When someone asks what IT is doing with all that money, the CIO won’t have to panic…. In fact, the CIO…

From the website What’s Web 2.0?:
How Do We Define Web 2.0?
Submitted by Will Pate on June 6, 2005
One of the reasons What’s Web 2.0? was started was the difficulty in defining exactly what Web 2.0 is. Is it a series of technologies, methodologies or best practices? We could use your help in […]

The Boston Globe reported on May 28 that the Boston Public Schools no longer allow students to use Yahoo, Hotmail, or other personal Web-based accounts from school. The action was taken after four incidents of students using school computers to e-mail threats, hit lists, and pornography to other students and…

There is a growing trend to prohibit student use of web-based email.  Boston is the latest school district to tackle this issue….

Real Networks is sponsoring a web seminar on streaming media in education. All participants receive a free copy of RealProducer Plus 10 and a 3-month trial subscription to Real’s Rhapsody Unlimited music service. Plus, one lucky participant will win a Creative Zen Micro 5GB MP3 player. Register here….