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Day one is over, and today, I get to play, at PETE & C. Yesterday’s workshop was tough. I taught about 110 educators, mostly tech directors from across Pennsylvania — and it was hands-on. The folks from Prismworks are to be commended. The network served us flawlessly. A couple […]

Yes, I’m in Hershey, Pennsylvania, for the 2006 Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference. Last night I had dinner with some old and new friends. They included folks at the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit and people from the Penn Department of Education. The conversations were down to earth, way out there with […]

I should have written about this earlier in the week. But it’s been one of those times where your struggling just to be ready for tomorrow. Tomorrow, I’ll be teaching a workshop for education technology leaders (Tech directors) throughout Pennsylvania, as one of the preconference workshops at PETE & C. The topic […]

OK! I’m lilly-white, southern, unsophisticated in the ways of the world, and I’ll bend over backwards for a good barbecue chicken. I say, “Sir!”, and I talk slow, so that people can savor what I’m saying (plus I think pretty slow).
So what am I doing, speaking to educators in an inner-city school in New […]

Jude2004 celebrated his 51st birthday yesterday. In his comment on Act like Natives, he (or she) claims to know more about technology than his students. He claims to be a native. Do I believe him? I sure do.
Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting to nearly 200 school technology contact people […]

It’s one of those analogies that has stuck. It says a lot for us — and about us. We’re immigrants to this new digital world. Our students are native-born. We speak with an accent. I’ve heard these phrases for years now, and have used it myself.
I’m an immigrant […]

I’ll be presenting to a group of ed tech educators here in Raleigh/Wake County later today about Web 2.0., and then taking it on the road as a workshop next week at Pennsylvannia’s ed tech conference, PETE & C.
I’d like to work through some of the underlying concepts that I see as being […]

Many many thanks to Wes Fryer for podcasting David Thornburg’s presentation at the TCEA conference last week in Austin. I can remember watching folks like Thornburg and Alan November back ten years ago, and saying to myself, “I could do that! And I think I could do it that well!” Both of […]

Typically, I wake up early in the morning with my mind already working on ideas. I don’t really know when the focus on what I’m going to blog this morning clamps off that mushy thought flow that is my dream state, but the ideas start to emerge. It usually begins small, “So what […]

You’ve all heard by now that our president’s budget proposal is out for 2007, and that with the exception of military and homeland security, programs are getting cut. A third of the 141 programs to be scaled back or eliminated are in education. He proposes cutting department of education funding by 3.5 billion […]