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Brenda started talking about Martin’s essays, which are now part of the application process (and fortunately not part of the process in 1969)…. But do they need to be the trunk of the tree — or are they the roots, a foundation, upon which truly unique, curious, and talented students freely become individuals with identity, value, and pride?

Here are some high-points from Dave Sifry’s February State of the Blogospher report, based on analysis of Technorati’s search statistics 75,000 new weblogs are appearing every day 13.7 million bloggers are still posting 3 months after they started their weblog 2.7 million bloggers update their blogs at least weekly…. Watch what they do, what they post about, and what they link to as input to a new kind of display - a piece of media that showed you the most interesting posts and conversations that related to a topic area, like food, or technology, or politics, or PR.

(See the picture) Among the keynote and spotlight speakers are Chris Dede — Neomillennial Learning Styles Glenda Bequette — An Administroat’s Bag of Tricks Tim Lauer — Web Based Communication Tools for Schools Gail Lovely — My WORD the Tings Word can Do!… & Quick & Easy Computer Activities for Kids No need to say any more, except that I will be talking about “Telling the New Story”.

I’ll also be telling some stories about travel, and making some observations about what I see as a crumbling travel infrastructure, and stories about people who still joyously see it as their job to provide quality service to their customers…. There will also be lots of pictures taken with my mobile phone (Treo 600 with a truly lousy camera that sometimes delivers some interesting affects as a result its lousiness).

Home at last, and mostly caught up on e-mail — mostly. I observed something about myself today and about this day and time. As I walked by the table, where Brenda places my mail, I saw a the familiar red Netflix envelop. At that moment, I could have easily picked up the […]

Perhaps more than anything else. Richard Florida is credited for making a compelling case for the connection between economic growth and creativity. Throughout the address, he refered to the Creative Age as a contrast to the Industrial Age.
He explained in the beginning that he would be talking about creativity and globalization, and not so […]

I had a fabulous time yesterday with educators in Cherry Creek Colorado, just east of Denver, but in sight of the majestic Rockies. Over 160 educators exploring contemporary literacy, the new shape of information, and the unique world (and learning skills) of Millennials.
I haven’t had time yet to work through my notes from the […]

Yesterday started out with a blast. The Friday Institute will be holding a series of forums, and the first was with public policy academic, Richard Florida. This guy is so on point with where we need to be going in order to haul the decline that my country is experiencing. My favorite […]

Well, that was yesterday. I spent most of the day trying to get caught up on e-mail, fixing a couple of programming problems, and giving it up and going out to a movie in the afternoon. That’s the charm of being self-employed, Will and John. It’s been four months since I did […]

Notes from David’s presentation: [Moblogged]
Kids spend 90 minutes a day reading. They spend 4 hours a day using video. We spend many years teaching children to read. But do we teach them the grammar of images and motion pictures?
Text addresses the rational mind. Pictures hit our emotions. Now a […]