Blog Juice for Educational Technology

It will probably be a light week on the blog as my departure from Happy High School nears. It’s starting to feel very, very strange. People here are starting to ask me what’s next. I start blankly at them and tell them I have no idea…
But if this is any indication, the afterlife won’t be […]

The blogbanning wiki I threw up a couple of weeks ago got an interesting addition yesterday: the start of a “Gray List” of sites that we can test against district filtering systems to see just how widespread the blog banning “problem” is. Tom, who based on his recent post seems to have authored the edit, […]

One of our Seton Hall students told a great story last weekend about the value of being open to learning from students. This superintendent wanted to learn more about podcasting and signed up for a workshop at a local school. He knew, however, that the technology would probably be a bit over his head, so […]

So, MySpace is so, early 2006. Facebook is all the rage. But to peek behind the curtain, I need an invite. Anyone have one?

More and more examples of ways that students are using Read/Write Web technologies to teach are cropping up all over the place. And when you think about it, it shouldn’t be a surprise. That’s what audience does, right? It provides a forum, an opportunity to share something that you know with an eye toward helping […]

Tonight and tomorrow Alan November and I will be together with our Seton Hall executive Ed.D. students for the last time to reflect on their semester of blogging, wiki-ing, Skype-ing etc. and to get them thinking about how to move forward with these technologies. I’ve been doing some reflecting on their work myself, feeling bad […]

Live blogging at the Milken Conference…
Moderator Tina Sharkey at AOL cites the usual statistics…37% of people engage in blogs on a regular basis, bloggers spend 4 hours a week blogging, 42 million page views a month, etc. This is the generation making its own content. What is the impact on traditional journalism?
Panelists are Rafat Ali […]

Some observations from the Milken Conference out here in Hollywood:

Yesterday, out of probably 2,000 attendees, I had the very strange honor of being the only person there wearing jeans. (What was a thinking?) I was like a flounder in a sea of Versace clad business sharks. Talk about sticking out. Despite my dapper sports coat, […]

If you want to know what the real threat to kids is at MySpace, read today’s piece in the New York Times and remember that predators aren’t always interested in sex:
To expand ad sales, especially to big brands, Mr. Levinsohn plans to supplement the MySpace staff with a second sales force linked to the Fox […]

Did some spring cleaning in my Bloglines account today…cut about 50 feeds with an eye to cutting about 25 more at some point. My extended vacation made it very clear that I’m just not being realistic to keep 150 or so active feeds (not including my Seton Hall course blogs) in my aggregator. So, by […]

From the Introduction to “The Wealth of Networks“:
We are in the midst of a technological, economic, and organizational transformation that allows us to renegotiate the terms of freedom, justice, and productivity in the information society. How we shall live in this new environment will in some significant measure depend on policy choices that we make […]

So I feel myself moving back to the whole “How is reading literacy changed by the social creation of highly distributed digital texts on the Web?” question these days which, of course, usually creates a whole ‘nother set of questions. I’m really trying to tap into what I’m doing when I’m reading online these days, […]

Jill Walker’s keynote at the Technology, Colleges and Community Online World Conference today promises to be extremely relevant to our attempts to understand how to best use these technologies in the classroom. The title speaks for itself: “Network Literacy: Learning with Blogging and Web 2.0.” Her post today summarizes the talk, but I’ll be looking […]