Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Editor and Publisher reports that Digg.com, a Web site that ranks and displays news items based on recommendations from its users, is expanding to include video and topics beyond technology. Currently, users are limited to posting and reading items on security, digital music, robots and other tech-related categories.

Beginning Monday, they will be able to post and have access to world, business and entertainment news, along with non-news video. Games and science also will break out of the general technology section.

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I am hungry for a good Mac OSX desktop blog editing program. I’ve tried lots, but I suspect not all. Here are the features I crave, though probably not all of them.

Spell Check
Right-click speech
Drag & Drop images with alignment options
Browser access
Blog this features
Wordpress compliant
Technorati Tags Generator
Must be able to display the cents symbol […]

I ran across this report while scanning this week’s Tech Learning News.
Only 26 percent of U.S. schools require students to take computer science courses, according to a report released last week.

Most cite lack of time in students’ schedules, according to the computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA). Though computer use pervades almost every aspect […]

I’m in Atlanta, Georgia for the Discovery Educator Southeast Regional Institute (tag: denri & denri06). I was able to visit some old friends and to make some new ones last night at a desert social. I’m sorry that I didn’t take any pictures of the food. There were some awesome chocolate brownies, a totally rich […]

If you had suggested to me, three years ago, that I would be blogging a conference, I would have said, “Wha…?” Yet, I think that the potentials of conferences that are wireless, with reflective participants blogging their notes and their insights about what they are learning ** IS HUGE **. The information, ideas, […]

Read/WriteWeb blogger, Richard MacManus, reviewed eBay’s new wiki last week. It will almost certainly be the largest wiki platform for a commercial website.
Here’s a quote from MacManus’ article:
Sowhy did eBay choose to add a wiki? eBay has a buyer and sellercommunity of more than 193 million members - a huge community that isthriving with […]

Just wanted to throw in my support for Will’s idea of a Digg style news collector for education bloggers.
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 […]

A posting at Inside Higher Ed has noted that:

In recent years, as federal agencies have shifted the grant application process online, Mac users have complained about being treated as second class citizens. This year, as the National Institutes of Health shifted its process to the Grants.gov online submission system, glitches have further frustrated Mac-wielding scientists. Grants.gov is an outgrowth of the President’s Management Agenda that seeks to have all federal grants exclusively online.

Many academic scientists [have] said that the government didn’t know its audience when it began with a Windows-only system — and changes have not gone as well as many have hoped. While Mac users may be in a minority nationally, there are parts of academe where their numbers are far from small.

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Our favorite Cool Cat Teacher (Vicki Davis), has challenged us to find our favorite 2005-2006 blog posting. I spent an evening in front of three episodes of The West Wing (Season 5), skimming through my school year writing, and identified a goodly number of posts that I was pretty happy about. Then culled […]

MySpace now has 72 million users1. That is larger than the populations of 213 countries2. Perhaps we could deal with the social online networks thing if we thought of it for what it is — MyNation. This is their digital nation. They are citizens, and they’ve never been taught digital civics.

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I haven’t had a chance to read all of them, but this comment, from Deborah Gast, one of the attendees of yesterday blogging workshop in Chapel Hill, caught my attention.
But in our schools we make some learners teachers.
Sometimes they talk and talk.
Sometimes they show and show.
Sometimes they pass out papers.
Sometimes they test the other learners.
Sometimes […]

I am in Chapel Hill, working with educators from the Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools, and I am telling them my Podcastercon story. In summary, I presented a session at January’s Podcastercon about podcasting and education. As soon as the 90 minute session was over, I checked my aggregator and there were already […]

School’s out for most of us. Educators across the northern hemisphere are relaxing for the first time in months, looking forward to a month or a little more of R&R, sitting by the pool in sunglasses, or taking a vacation or a fact-finding tour of Paris, London, Tokyo, or some other exotic locale that […]