2¢ Worth

The conference is over, and I head out to the air port very soon.  Once home, I stay there for nearly a week — while the azaleas are in bloom.  Look for pictures.
So where did I leave off.  Oh!  Flu Shot.  It’s a book written by Kendrick Lacey about a killer flu pandemic.  Classes across […]

First thing I run across this morning is Vicki Davis’ very clever video called “Technology Fear Factor.”  She expresses most of the message with a combination of IM speak spelling via a tatooed finger pointing to keys on a computer keyboard.  Well it’s probably not real tatoos.  Very clever and very true.
Also, through her video, […]

As you know, I’m in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and today is the first day of their Literacy & Learning conference.  They suggested that I come up a day early, as a buffer day, just in case weather was being ornery.  Evidently, they had Jason Ohler set up to to keynote a conference her a few […]

Jeff Whipple, Me, and Gary Gallant.

All I can think to say is WOW! WOW! WOW!  I met and got to know a number of folks from the New Brunswick Department of Education this morning over breakfast.  I was struck immediately with a down home relaxed nature among the provincial leaders, especially considering that they are […]

It’s not about the technology, but about a new information landscape.  Technology is merely the way that we navigate it.

I landed in Fredericton, New Brunswick last night.  I’d thought it would be shortly after nine, but it was actually shortly after ten.  I need to find out if I’m east of Easter Standard Time, or […]

I was quite surprised, when I poked my head into 2¢ Worth, here at the airport (Free WiFi), to find eight comments on yesterday’s post, “Are Computers a Tool?”  Eight is a lot for me, and I continue to be surprised that anyone is reading this stuff.  I was so intrigued by the ideas shared […]

I’m sitting in the Phoenix International Airport, Gate A6, waiting for my flight to Boston — two hours from now.  It was an unusually long security line, a bit more than an hour, which is way longer than usual.  But what made the time barable was the woman who was hollerin’ instructions.  Usually this was […]

I’m all done with my presentations in Phoenix and my voice is ragged.  All that’s left is driving back to the airport where I have a hotel — flying out in the morning.  So, I’ve stepped into Tony Vincent’s presentation on Blogging and RSS.  I just did my Web 2.0 session so we had worked […]

There are a number of phrases that we use in our ed tech speak that, though useful in some contexts, might actually do more harm than good.  One is Integrating Technology or Technology Integration.  I’ve talked this one down for years, that it isn’t about integrating technology, but integrating the digital skills that are a […]

Pew Internet: Latinos Online:
Latinos comprise 14% of the U.S. adult population and about half of this growing group (56%) goes online. By comparison, 71% of non-Hispanic whites and 60% of non-Hispanic blacks use the internet.

What I found most interesting from the report was that of English-Dominant Hispanics, 78% use the Internet.  Of Native-born Hispanics it […]