2¢ Worth

It’s Wednesday morning in a hotel lobby on the campus of Duke University. With no working Internet in my room, I dressed, packed, and escaped to the lobby where they have very fine wireless service. I wish there had been a descent alternative for the lack of hot water in my room. […]

I leave in just a few minutes for an event that is quite unique to me. I’ll not say more now, but hope that I will have much to share when it is over. Before I go, however, I’d like to share two items.

Readers of Edutopia, from the George Lucas Educational Foundation, should […]

Enormous thanks to Kelly Dumont (The Educational Mac) for pointing me in the direction of The Savvy Technologist, a blog and podcast written and produced by Tim Wilson, in Minnesota. In his podcast, STP #8: A chat with the gang, Tim participates in a recorded discussion about Web 2.0 with Tim Lauer, and Will […]

Yesterday, I was scanning through the Technology & Learning News for August 23, and ran across a story called Gadgets, Gadgets Everywhere.

Technology’s steady advance has made the challenge of controlling students’ use of electronic gadgets - cell phones, handheld video games, MP3 players - during school time ever more difficult.

It’s a lead into a story […]

I’m just thinking out loud here, which means that this is bound to be controversial.
One of the stories that we tell involves our test scores and why ours lag behind those of other industrial countries. We say, “Oh, but we are testing such a higher percentage of our students than they are. They […]

It is 2005, and children, youngsters, and adults, young and old, are going back to school to become better prepared for the challenges and opportunities of their future. I thought I would just list a rundown of the issues of the day related to education. What are people fretting over? What’s is the […]

If you have been using iTunes to listen to my podcast, Connect Learning, you may think that I have been taking a break from the microphone over the past few weeks. That is incorrect. There are probably five programs that you are missing.
For some reason iTunes stopped picking up my files […]

I received quite a few comments, pingbacks, and even more e-mails regarding a recent entry, Four Reasons Why the Blogsphere Might Make a Better Professional Collaborative Environment than Discussion Forums. I’d like to present a scenario that seems like a potent intersection between the way that a school handles information, and the “new shape […]

I guess that it’s a sign that I am still more teacher than business man, that I would laud, so enthusiastically, my competition. There are probably four or five ed tech conference keynote speakers who are on the A-list of people we all need to hear and see. It’s my aspiration to reach […]

I’m blogging live from the auditorium of Blue Ridge Community College near Asheville, North Carolina. This is an absolutely wonderful conference that is in its 4th year, and I hadn’t heard of it until they asked me to talk about classroom blogging a couple of months ago.
First, you wouldn’t believe that the scenery. […]