Blog Juice for Educational Technology

I love this sentiment from Stephen Downes on his Half an Hour blog (which for some reason I didn’t find until today.)
I think there is no question that there is a lot of bad behaviour on the internet, and even the briefest observation shows that it is the adults, and not the kids, who are […]

From the “Throw it Up and See if it Sticks Deptartment” I just put together a Digg-type site over at CrispyNews specifically for those of us who are focused on the Read/Write Web and the implications for education. Here’s how I think you could use it if you bought into it.
First, go over to the […]

(I’m in Wes Freyer mode today, huh?)
I just happened to pick up Expecting the Unexpected by one of my favorite teachers Donald Murray this morning, flipped to a page, and read this:
“It isn’t easy, however, to get students to teach themselves. It took me years to learn how not to teach, how to keep from […]

Alan’s great post about del.icio.us titled “Tagging It to the Next Level” has me thinking about how to better use it as a way of tracking the reading of the community. Since you can create your own network of users based on their account names, I’m thinking I could add to my network anyone who […]

Just a pointer to an incredibly wonderful, fantastic, enjoyable, thoughtful, scintillating, exciting, provocative (did I say fantastic?) 12-minute interview with my wife Wendy on the nationally syndicated EcoTalk show on Air America Radio. Her book about what we can all do to protect the environment has been getting some great press of late and is […]

If you want to find an area of the country that is getting really serious about the Read/Write Web in the classroom, look no further that Western New York. If nothing else, the last two days here speaking to and with the superintendents from about 50 districts and the staff developers from the Erie BOCES […]

Al Gore was on Fresh Air yesterday, and I caught about half the conversation in between picking up kids and shuttling them to friends and riding lessons. (One of the effects of reinventing yourself out of a job…all sorts of new jobs crop up.) He was talking about global warming, and I thought he did […]

I think this Q and A with Danah Boyd and Henry Jenkins about the many very subtle and significant aspects of MySpace should be a must read for any of us that are concerned with the general response that schools are taking and the recenty DOPA legislation. If nothing else, it should give us some […]

There certainly were a week’s worth of highlights packed into my quick two-day visit to Edinburgh for e-Live 2006, among them meeting Ewan McIntosh, David Muir and John Johnson (three more checks on my edblogger life list), the very enjoyable meetup at the Jolly Judge just off the Royal Mile and later a fun dinner […]

Tim O’Reilly’s recent commencement address at the UC Berkeley School of Information has been widely cited, and I’m not sure that all of it really resonates, but there are a couple of phrases and ideas that are especially relevant and worth noting. And since he wasn’t just talking to a group of educators, these points […]

Dean poined to the fact that Clayton Wilcox, the blogging superintendent at Pinellas County in Florida, has shut down his blog because of the acrimonious debate that took place among the commentors. It’s unfortunate, I think, not just because this will be seen as another indictment against the transparency and openness of blogs, but because […]

Just trying out this Performancing Firefox extension for posting to my blog. So far, it looks and feels pretty elegant. I love being able to post to a lot of different blogs from one spot. But does it have a spell check?
Don’t know if I mentioned that I just got my brand spanking new M-400 […]

So, without getting all sentimental about the many years I’ve spent learning, teaching, coaching, advising, supervising etc. at this place, it is, finally, moving on day. I’ve been reading and rereading these the last few days:
“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it […]