Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Now that was an EdBlogger Meetup.
About 40 people or so showed up to the Rock Bottom last night to share stories and ideas about their use of blogs in their personal practice and in their schools, and to just do what is the most fun about coming to conferences like this: say hello, place the […]

It has been such a fun and crazed two days so far, and I wish I had more time to blog about the buzz here, but this ought to give you a sense of what’s happening. The US Department of Education is here talking about an interesting vision for “School 2.0″ that it’s been working […]

On the plane out to San Diego I got the chance to watch Sir Ken Robinson’s great presentation at the TED conference (Technology Entertainment and Design). It’s a pretty powerful call to “radically rethink our view on intelligence” and “rethink the fundamental principles on which we are educating our children” to move toward a much […]

Well, it’s off to NECC we go. I can’t believe how much Read/Write Web stuff is going on. As David’s quick research shows , it’s clear that we’re not the new kids on the block anymore. About time. We’ve got everything from “Blogging for Peace” to “Blogging for International Audiences” to “Blogging for Dinner.” Well, […]

 Maybe I was dreaming, but I seem to recall a few weeks back someone linking to a teacher who had set up a page in MySpace for a character his students were reading about (or something like that.) Ring any bells? Anyone?

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Yesterday, the measures intended to maintain “Net Neutrality” failed in the Senate Commerce Committee, meaning it looks like the bill to change Internet access pricing will be headed toward a full senate vote. If passed, telecom companies will be able to create a two-tiered system of Internet access based on how much you can and […]

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 […]

The third time in two years the Delaware has flooded. This is about a 1/4 mile down the road from my house. Thankfully, we’re on a little rise… There is a house just to the left of this shot that the owners have been restoring since the last flood. They just got it finished. Oy.
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So despite writing this while sitting on the tarmac at Midway (Chicago) airport after being canceled out of flying home last night and now being delayed AGAIN, I’m in a downright giddy Read/Write Web mood. Maybe it was spending the day with a roomful of energetic, geared-up Discovery educators yesterday who despite the roadblocks and […]

So, twenty five points to the first person who can correctly identify the back of the head of this somewhat geeky celebrity spotted at the magazine rack in a Newark Airport kiosk this morning. Beg for hints if you like…
And if you really beg I’ll tell you my incredibly embarrasing moment with this person…maybe.
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Well, I guess it was bound to happen. My book got it’s first negative (and I mean negative) review at Amazon recently. It was pretty brutal on first read…

“Lacks focus and a targeted audience…”
“The big font was easy on the eyes…”
“Worth skimming through if you find a discarded copy hanging around.”

Ouch. Well, that’s the last […]

So says Joanne Jacobs in her essay “The Knowledge Tree Goes Social” which I listened to in podcast form on my drive up to Newport, RI today. (I’m speaking at EdAccess tomorrow morning.) She cites the blog search engine Sphere as the source though I couldn’t replicate the result. Regardless…

69,000.
Whoa.
Not to sound like an […]

I added this article from today’s Times about Wikipedia to the EdBloggerNews site (which if you haven’t gone there and signed up for an account and subscribed to the RSS feed and added the bookmarklet to your toolbar so you can start contributing yet you should) and this quote just jumped out at me:
Wikipedians often […]