Blog Juice for Educational Technology

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.”
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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 […]

I had a great time last year at the Northeast Linux Symposium in Bethel, Maine. It is a real hands-on, grassroots, nuts and bolts conference by and for school sys admins and tech coordinators who want to use Linux and other open source software in their schools. Last year, I thought the time seemed right to expand the conference a…

We had a whole-district staff development day today and I had the chance to introduce about 35 teachers to Web 2.0 and some applications like Del.icio.us, Flickr (with an accompanying lesson on Creative Commons), Technorati, Bloglines, and Wikipedia. I was pleased with the results, and the experience reminded me of a lesson that I learned […]

So, if you had an hour in front of your full faculty to do a show and tell of some cool sites/tools out there, what would you show? We have a staff in-service on September 23, and I’ve got that hour. I’m thinking:

A couple of weeks ago, Will, Tim Lauer, Tim Wilson and myself recorded our first group podcast (not-so cleverly titled, “Ed Tech Coast to Coast”). Since that time, I’ve been doing some research and thinking about the uses of datacasting (that’s podcasting of audio or even vodcasting of video). Certainly, I don’t have any finite conclusions to point to, but…

My new buddy Graham Attwell is working on a cool idea: I have a contract to help develop the e-learning version of (a teacher) self evaluation course. As I wrote earlier, here and here, we are planning to create a blog, written by a ‘virtual’ or fictitious learner, Sarah Jones, around which to construct a learning narrative and as a…

This posting covers a FirstClass User Group meeting and the Annual ISTE SIGTC Forum with David Warlick as the featured speaker and a panel discusion of the use of handhelds in the classroom….