2¢ Worth

Yesterday’s post (And a Picture, Too), about the high school senior whose name and picture were included in her Charlotte Observer review of the movie, Fracture, generated a lot of conversation — especially for a Sunday.  The responses sat pretty much on opposite ends of the issue’s spectrum, initially reporting dismay at the news paper […]

I’m at home, in my home town, in western piedmont North Carolina.  I was just reading a movie review in the Charlotte Observer about Fractured, a suspence thriller that Brenda and I went to see last weekend, and thoroughly enjoyed. 
The review was right on, reporting just enough of the plot, the ease at which […]

Steve Mazingo, Superintendent of Greene County Schools

On Wednesday night, I was invited to a leadership dinner at the MICCA conference in Baltimore.  It was good food and good thought.  Anthony Salcito, General Manager for Microsoft Education, gave an engaging presentation about Philadelphia’s School of the Future.  He talked mostly about what went into the planning […]

I’m sitting in a session being taught by Scott Osterweil, inventor of Zoombinis and director of the Education Arcade at MIT.  The session is, of course, about games, and he just distinguished between the two far extremes of the game spectrum, from the gamer, who imply that we should just take kids out of classrooms, […]

I walked over to the Inner Harbor at lunch, to find some good food and some quiet.  I ate at Phillips, in what was essentially a food court.  After I finished, and was walking back through the mall area,  I saw a young mother and her daughter, perhaps two years old, jumping around on the […]

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The Change Process and How Schools Change With Technology with David Marcovitz.  I was not originally coming to this session.  It didn’t tap me on the shoulder when I was going through the program.  But as I walked by the sign, saw it, read […]

I want to apologize to the owner of whoever’s house it is that I keep landing in, every time I try to teleport home in Second Life.  I think that perhaps it wasn’t there when I first set that landmark.  It’s the one just by my left hand, with the white roof.
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Thanks to history teacher, Dave Ehrhart, for correcting my on the name of the ship, here in the Boston Harbor. It’s the Constelation
I had so many wonderful and stimulating conversations at the AIMS event this week.  I did a Web 2.0 conversational session at the conference (actually all of the sessions were conversational), and […]

I’ll be writing this blog over the day, sharing some of the things I learn, hear, get validated, and some of the fun and energy of this very interesting conference.  It is first important to note that although they don’t call it this, the AIMS retreat is an unconference event.  All of the breakout sessions […]

I sat with a group of independent school educators during lunch today — back in the shade (or near shade) and away from the rest of the conference attendees. They were the tech staff of a single school, and were all quite knowledgeable and experienced in the issues of managing a technology program for […]