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I’m moblogging this at the airport, so please excuse any departures from my usual flawless prose. Air Canada will be taking me to Toronto, where I’ll pickup a car and drive to northern Ontario — where I’ll be worked hard over the next couple of days.
Tomorrow will begin with a three-hour address to the […]

One of the weird things about blogging is that I simply can not predict what entries are going to hit home.  I never would have thought that a simple and casual mentioning of a site I’d heard about for years would be one of them, but the RateMyTeacher post kicked up a storm!
The comment that […]

Thanks to ed tech maven, Ian Jukes for bringing this article to our attention.  How important will it be to be able to read?
“Literacy
experts and educators say they are stunned by the results of a recent
adult literacy assessment, which shows that the reading proficiency of
college graduates has declined in the past decade, with no obvious
explanation.
“’It’s […]

I wrote yesterday about competition and how we should treat our students and their community as our customers.  Coincidentally, in researching for some presentations I’ll be doing in northern Ontario next week, I ran across this web site, RateMyTeachers.com.
I’ve heard about this site for years, but never really took a look.  I looked up the […]

Originally posted on the TechLearning Blog on 18 September 2006.
For the past week, I have been writing about best practices. It has mostly been a conversation between me and commenting readers about the term, best practice, where it comes from, what it means, why we feel a need for best practices, and who designates […]

Dave LaMorte interviewed me over Skype the other day, and he seems to have caught me on a good day. It was an enjoyable conversation with Dave, though I’d thought he said his name was Leo Laporte.
I urge you to give this and other Dave episodes a listen at Teaching for the Future. […]

It costs about $200 to fly our son back and forth to Texas, where he’s in school. It costs a quarter that much for the shuttle ride to get him just the 20 miles from the airport to his campus. Brenda and I were considering yesterday that a handful of university parents could […]

OK, I can hear it now, stone carvers, chisel in hand, hollering to those new scribes with their papyrus, “What if there’s a fire! har har har har!”
It seems that history is full of instances where advancement in information technologies have been resisted and even ridiculed, and on rare occasions, by educators. Karl Fisch […]

They’re old school, old web, but I think they should come back.  Blogs are fantastic for publishing (and conversation) and wikis are nearly perfect for collaboration (and conversation).  But the web application that was designed explicitly for conversation was discussion boards, and they’ve been with us for a long time.
I spent a little time this […]

The other day, I posted a list of my very first workshops as The Landmark Project (1996), and commented how most of the topics are still among my topics today — evolved, but the concepts are still there.
Chris, at K12 Station commented:

I started training teachers to integrate the web into their classrooms in 1999 … […]