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The ever challenging, Mr. Hoffman, commented the other day on my blog entry about high schools and computer science courses (High Schools Fail To Meet Needs Of Tech-Driven World ????). In his practiced zeal to poke holes in my arguments, Hoffman logically questions my suspicions of our constant calls for more science, math, and […]

I attended my first Chapel Hill Blogger MeetUp last night. It was a small gathering, reported most effectively and succinctly by a “Serbian Jewish atheist liberal PhD student”. I did say this was Chapel Hill.
A Blog Around The Clock : Blogger MeetUp report:
I went to the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Bloggers Meetup today. Most of […]

I’ve added a new suggested tag for the NECC conference aggregators, necc06prep. There are already a good number of blogs that are tagged necc06 — but no pictures. I want to suggest that people who will be presenting at this national conference, take a picture of themselves preparing for their performances.
It is important […]

Early this week I announced a new Landmarks for Schools web tool, Hitchhikr, a conference aggregator. As is typical, during the first few days of a new application, the usage stressed not only the technology and programming, but also the interface. It forced me to see the tool in ways that I hadn’t […]

I ran across this report while scanning this week’s Tech Learning News.
Only 26 percent of U.S. schools require students to take computer science courses, according to a report released last week.

Most cite lack of time in students’ schedules, according to the computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA). Though computer use pervades almost every aspect […]

Julie Lindsay just posted on her blog, the list of NECC attendees who have registered as official volunteer bloggers. Link to Lindsey’s blog for the list.

This list arrived an hour ago from the Web Marketing Manager at ISTE, Barbara Hewick. It is a list of volunteer bloggers and podcasters for the NECC06 conference in […]

I’m in Atlanta, Georgia for the Discovery Educator Southeast Regional Institute (tag: denri & denri06). I was able to visit some old friends and to make some new ones last night at a desert social. I’m sorry that I didn’t take any pictures of the food. There were some awesome chocolate brownies, a totally rich […]

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If you had suggested to me, three years ago, that I would be blogging a conference, I would have said, “Wha…?” Yet, I think that the potentials of conferences that are wireless, with reflective participants blogging their notes and their insights about what they are learning ** IS HUGE **. The information, […]

I was just going through the ALA Annual conference web site this morning and discovered the paragraph below.  This could be a trend.  Better yet, this could be a movement.  OK, most of you don’t get the reference to Alice’s Restaurant, but it’s huge. 
ALA
has contracted with the Morial Convention Center to provide wifi access
at […]

Read/WriteWeb blogger, Richard MacManus, reviewed eBay’s new wiki last week. It will almost certainly be the largest wiki platform for a commercial website.
Here’s a quote from MacManus’ article:
Sowhy did eBay choose to add a wiki? eBay has a buyer and sellercommunity of more than 193 million members - a huge community that isthriving with […]