2¢ Worth

I am sitting in Glens Falls, New York, enjoying a wonderful winter day, working mostly with Librarians and explore blogs, wikis, podcasting, and RSS.
I’m now going to survey the group to she what they know about blogs.
100% had heard of blogs
30% say that they have read blogs
10% have a blog
10% have school/professional blogs
0% have personal […]

I am currently presenting to a group of educators from the state of New York about Web 2.0. We just has lunch and most of them are still awake. I’m asking how many of these educators had heard of blogging.
The answers are:

100% have heard of blogging
95% say that they have read a blog
5% […]

I just received permission to post this message sent to me over the weekend.

…the father of one of my students is currently serving in Iraq and today he left 2 comments on his son’s blog. The child was so thrilled that his father had done this. That moment just reaffirmed how wonderful this […]

There has been a great deal of discussion on the listservs lately about our communities’ fearfulness concerning blogs and wikis, mostly pointing to the behaviors of youngsters on their xanga and myspace accounts. I must confess that I haven’t looked. If I did, I’m sure I would be shocked — but I wouldn’t […]

Yesterday morning, I wrote (It’s not Just Technology) about how tech conference sessions that focused on the what and how of technology drew far more participants than those that explored the why. Well, my last session yesterday was an exception.
The morning began at 8:30 with a presentation about podcasting. I gave a half-full […]

Lots of people have talked about this. But I want to put in my 2¢ worth. Technology is not the only reason to come to an educational technology conference. I have presented a number of technology sessions here at NCECT, including: blogging, podcasting, web 2.0, and RSS. With the exception of […]