2¢ Worth

We’re working in at a Web 2.0 Summit in a primary school in Lumberton, near Beaumont. Summit delegates have posted their first reflective blog, and I want to invite 2¢ Worth readers to poke their heads in and read what folks are saying. If you see something to comment on, a reflection, an […]

Will Richardson posted a short note yesterday pointing to an article in the Wall Street Journal about how Israelis and Lebanese are reading each other’s blogs — probably the only way that they have of interacting with each other within a civil context. Read his post and his quote from the article.
I’ll double-click on […]

I’ve made it to Southeast Texas, the Beaumont area. Most of yesterday afternoon was spent preparing for this week and relaxing a bit. Later, I decided to take a drive to the beach, to Sea Rim State Part, which, by the way, was closed and infested with graffiti. I drove on down […]

I’m sitting in the Ralsigh-Durham airport, on my way to the mild climes of southeast Texas. It’s an interesting layout. i will be teaching a two day workshp on Web 2.0 to a group of tech-savvy educators. What
is interesting is that day one will be tomorrow, followed be the Region […]

I think we’re all sorta jumping around the same bush. It’s been a good dance because I’ve learned some things. First of all, nothing’s simple and it isn’t getting any simpler. There are no rules any more and as much as I’d like to come up with some kind of all encompassing […]

OK, MySpace should probably be blocked from the classroom. However, The Friends of MySpace (I’d give you the URL, but you have to be a “friend”) have created a web site called “Save Your Space” and have established a petition, looking for 100,000 signatures in a month.
They say…
The SAVE YOUR SPACE petition is your […]

I’m sitting here at the Open Eye Cafe, a rather counter-culture sort of affair with used furniture, young men and women dress for summer, leaning intently toward their laptops, sipping very good coffee, a fairly happy song being played through speakers, simple guitar and unhappy female singer. I’m here for the Chapel Hill Blogger Meetup […]

Doug Noon, at Borderland, has posted a powerful statement about the House of Representative’s passage of HR5319, DOPA. The article is called DOPA and the New Bubble. Noon also references a posting at Techcrunch, one of the top technology blogs on the Net. Read US House: Schools must block MySpace, many other […]

Yesterday’s blog about the first shift I see for librarians and libraries sparked a storm of discussion. Well six comments is a lot for the middle of an enormously deserved summer vacation.
But to continue the conversation, I would like to respond to a few of the comments that have poured in.
Scott Walters said,
July 26, 2006 […]

Angie, at Many Hats, vented a bit yesterday, describing a Technology Standards meeting.
The argument was that teachers weren’t about to use PowerPoint or show things off of the computer because they didn’t have the LCD projector. I piped up about connecting the computer to a TV. Our coordinator mentioned that he had the cords to […]