2¢ Worth

When you are on the road, you can not avoid CNN. It’s in the Airport. CNN, and its ilk, comprise at least 80% of the TV channels in most hotels (trying to get you to resort to their $12 movies on demand).
The other day, I was working on a presentation in the airport […]

Aside from traffic, I had a good day yesterday, working with superintendents and directors of technology from Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam Counties, New York. The group was very receptive with good questions peppered in. I had an hour and a half to deliver what is usually an hour long presentation. It’s amazing […]

At the airport in Raleigh, yesterday, I received an e-mail from Steve Dembo, describing how he had read the April issue of WIRED Magazine on the train. He suggested that we hold a roundtable discussion about the influences of video games in education — but that we hold the meeting inside of Halo. […]

In the April issue of WIRED Magazine, Will Wright, the inventor of The SIMS, heads off an interesting series of pieces on the impact and direction of video games. In his introductory article, Dream Machines, Wright says,

Just watch a kid with a new videogame. The last thing they do is read the manual. Instead, […]

I have worked at several conferences over the past couple of months, that have attempted to extend their services into the blogosphere and other planes of Read/Write web activity. I know of several others who will be attempting to implement web 2.0 features in the near future.
So here are some of the things that […]

[Originally posted on the Technology & Learning Blog — March 20, 2006]
One of the most interesting topics being discussed at education technology conferences today is the instructional potential of video games. Much of this has come from talks and writings by Marc Prensky (Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants), but many others from MIT, Harvard School […]

[Moblogged]
I’m in Denton, Texas, with my son, who is, at this moment, auditioning for the UNT school of music. I’ve found an interesting coffee house that also offers exotic blends of commercial cerials for student patrons. The coffee is great and they also offer free WiFi.
I’m on my phone though, and thinking about […]

I slipped out from the NCAECT Conference in Charlotte yesterday, so that I could spend a day (and evening) at FETC in Orlando. I’ve gotten to spend some time with old friends, meet some new friends, and today, I’ll be presenting a Web 2.0 presentation. This is a world class conference, so I’m […]

I am finishing up Frank McCourt’s (author of Angela’s Ashes) new book Teacher Man. It’s not exactly what I was expecting, and I’m mixed on whether I should recommend that my daughter (who’s studying to be a high school teacher right now) read the book. It is not about the motivating and exciting […]

[This is a mobile blog (moblog). Please forgive the grammar, word usage, and sentence structure]
Popular podcaster, Tim Wilson, is talking to a great (and raucous) group of educators about podcasting. It’s a lot of beginner stuff, but he has said several times that podcasting is a professional development endeavor. I thing that […]