2¢ Worth

Llarry52 commented on one of my “story” posts, saying:

There’s another argument - or story - with respect to this. It is that the U.S. does see education as an investment and is simply asking what are we getting for that investment.

Llarry52 is a master of the data, and with it, he makes a compelling case. […]

When talking and writing about ethics and the new information environment, I frequently add a layer of responsibility to the producer of content, on top of consumer of content. We all talk about how important it is, and, in my opinion, ethically responsible it is to be able to prove the accuracy, reliability, and […]

Thinking Stick educator, Jeff Utecht, a teacher in Beijing, added to the New Story conversation early this morning (The Middle East — a new story), by passing along some facts that he received from a fellow international school educator in Dubai. An extraordinary city, Dubai has often been an example, pointed to when looking […]

This is probably my last blog for the day. My writing happens in the mornings, and then I’m only good for manual labor. Plus, I hit the road again tomorrow morning to speak at a staff development symposium in Lawrence Kansas on Saturday, and then speaking nearly every day next week in four […]

Graham Wegner, at Teaching Generation Z, just trackbacked to my entry yesterday about Edutopia’s survey results, namely, their mentioning Will Richardson and myself as “must read blogs.” Graham is adding his five cents worth, which are:

Borderland
Artichoke
Blue Skunk Blog
Teacher in Development / Palimpsest Redux
Cool Cat Teacher

Please read Graham’s post for his comments, and if you […]

I’m putting finishing touches on Son of Citation Machine (SOCM) today. I’ve enjoyed using an eight year old computer, running Linux, to finish up the coding over the past few days, and reloading the citations, adding a few additional ones that have been requested over the months.
What’s new is the engine that drives SOCM. […]

Scalpel, please!

I considered using a different distribution, but decided on Ubuntu again.

I continue to be intrigued with Open Source. In fact, for some reason (I’ve just blogged about it once), I’ve been asked to lead a round table discussion about OSS at the upcoming TechForum event in Chicago next week. I’m certainly going […]

For a few weeks now, people have been congratulating me for being singled out, along with Will Richardson, as “must-read” blogs in Edutopia’s Reader Survey. I clicked to the web page, read about Will’s thoughtful Weblogg-ed.com and my entertaining 2¢ Worth.
Entertaining?
Uh, right!
Well, enough of that, on with the rest of the survey, […]

Class Blogmeisters have lately been discussing on their mailing list about the barriers they face in their efforts to get more teachers involved in blogging. Most stories involve a handful of teachers giving it a try, and most of them dropping it after one or two assignments. Complaints include the time it takes […]

There has been an impressive continuing discussion on the New Stories topic among people whom I respect a great deal. Lots of stories have been suggested that range pretty widely across a number of qualities. I thought I would suggest some classification of new story types, so that we can begin to talk […]