Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Maine blogger, teacher, and web explorer, Cheryl Oates, brought to my attention this morning a new web 2 application, Gliffy. You sign up for free (pro version on the way) then draw or assemble flow charts, floor plans, and other graphical communications — and do so in collaboration. You can publish your projects […]

I had a two and a half hour layover at Charlotte Douglas Airport yesterday, one of my all-time favorite layovers. Any airport that offers rocking chairs, cares. During yesterday’s visit, I discovered their business center, with desks, ethernet ports, free WiFi, lots of electrical outlets, and quite comfortable chairs. They also […]

I’m off today for Ausburg college and the 2006 Minnesota e-Learning Summit, in Minneapolis. I do not know very much about this conference. It’s organized by Minnesota Government Training Services, which appears to do a lot of professional development activities and not just in education.
I’ll be delivering the opening Keynote tomorrow on twenty-first […]

I believe that I am going to enjoy a unique experience today. I’m speaking at the North Carolina Distance Learning Alliance conference in magnificent Asheville, North Carolina. I know a number of educators who will be hear, teachers and administrators who have dedicated a great deal of their time and formidable creativity to […]

Ok, so I’m in a bit of a emotional whirlwind today, and maybe that has something to do with my reaction to yesterday’s New York Times magazine cover piece on the future of books in the sense that I’m looking for all kinds of validation for leaving my desk job and deciding to try to […]

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I heard some buzz about a movement toward customer created ads.  It started with MoveOn’s Defeat Bush Ad contest, back in 2003.  This one comes from Current TV, a national cable and satellite channel dedicated to bringing your voice to television.
Here’s the video, produced by 19 year old Tyson Ibele […]

I woke up early this morning with a bit of Jekyll and Hyde going on in my head. Part of me is outraged at the reckless abuse of one of the cornerstones (THE CORNERSTONE) of democracy, public education, by witless politicians who are desperate to find traction in an increasingly slippery world. I […]

Conversations continue about schools that block access to the blogosphere. I ran across an interesting comment last night, in my end of the day aggregator scan. It was in a blog post by Wesley Fryer (Censored for Relevance - April 11, 2006), that he said, “Are we living in the United States here, […]

Tom’s been cranking at the Gray List of sites that he wants to test over at the Blog Banning wiki, and, in fact, he’s ready to give it a shot. It will be interesting to see what happens, and if you can take part, I’d really urge you to participate.
The whole blocking issue really hit […]

(via Leigh Blackall) So here’s an interesting idea from Teemu Leinonen:
I go on and suggest a new school book paradigm. Turn everything around.
Write a school book that has purposefully inserted factual errors. Make it as uncertain as possible, so that the student needs to seek conversations to make any sense out of it.
Make the point […]

I’m copying and pasting this in from Ewan Macintosh’s weblog, Edu.Blogs.Com. Hope you don’t mind, Ewan. I’m getting ready to present a session at a regional conference, and I want to get this post out there.
Terry Friedman, an independent education consultant in London, coraled some pretty forward thinking educators, and me, to write […]

Did you know that people are making six-figure incomes by blogging? ….BLOGGING?
The moral statement is that people, through their own resourcefulness and a developing writing style, are producing an information product, a blog, that people want to read. Through the magic of Google Ads and other advertising facilities, they are drawing income, by […]

Last week, I delivered a keynote address at the Technology Leadership Network Executive Briefing at the NSBA Annual Conference in Chicago. It was my classic, Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century speech, and it was very well received by the technology-conscious school board members in the audience. The address was also exhausting for […]