2¢ Worth

5:55 AM

The World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman
Got Game, by John Beck
Oryx and Crate” by Margaret Atwood (well it’s not professional development, but all about ethics in science)
La Vida Robot, a WIRED magazine article
I’ll add a few more here, and please do comment with other professional readings.
The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell (keynoted NECC last […]

10:32 AM
This entry was a response that I wrote to the WWWEDU mailing list. The question regarded what school administrators should be learning about blogging.
I think that the real value of blogging, from a management standpoint, is in RSS and the aggregator — it’s the directions in which the communication flows. I’ll be […]

I’d hoped to have this out long before now, but nursing my web sites back to life after a major server crash a few weeks ago, put this project on hold for some time.
So now,
it is time,
To tell you about a new service of The Landmark Project…
The Education Podcast Network!
Ok, I learned a […]

9:34 AM
Time for my on an issue that has already been blogged by Will Richardson, podcasted by Steve Dembo, and just revealed 18 links from Technorati, including an entry in Scoble’s Link Blog. They story surrounds a Cobb County Georgia high school principal closing down the school paper. I would like […]

The talk in Raleigh today is about the school budget and our county commissioners’ agreement to fund only $12.3 million of the school system’s request for $29.4 million in funding increases. One reason for the ongoing stress in Wake County (for readers who are not familiar with the district) is the overwhelming growth of […]

Added Later 11:09 AM
I’m listening to a podcast by Moira Gunn, an interview with Brithis software entrepreneur Dill Faulkes (the Bill Gates of Britain). They are talking about the Faulkes Telescope, which is a project that he is funding where children in Britain can, through the Internet, control a telescope in Hawaii (where it […]

7:22 AM
There is a controversy going on right now that has dire consequences for thousands of students and hundreds of professional educators. The situation is so fragile, at present, that I will not divulge any specifics, and instead, treat it as a hypothetical.
So, let’s say that we have a suburban community, where a local […]

10:43 AM
While I have been so engaged in saving my web sites, I haven’t had enough time to delve very deeply into the ideas that have continued to be grown by thinkers out on the Net. Two of these big ideas combine with some news that I culled from my aggregator this morning.
First, the […]

7:41 AM
It has been a horrendous last few weeks, since the server that was hosting Landmark web sites, crashed, burned, and fell into a crumpled heap, smoke wisping up to the celling. Sorry, it’s a satisfying image after the heartache that we have experienced.
Anyway, I’m still picking up occasional pieces, but most of the […]

6:30 AM
In a recent blog, I described a music recording studio that had been constructed by students and teachers at the Beacon School (Music is Basic). The point that I tried to make from this post was not a thorough as I’d hoped it would be. So let me rephrase.
Stop teaching […]