2¢ Worth

It’s not a good way to start a day at a distance learning conference.  Internet has been down since we arrived last night at the Crown Plaza Resort hotel in Asheville.  Brenda and I have a wonderful view of the city, the air is fresh and only slightly tinted with the blue haze that characterize […]

Periodically I receive comments from teachers who are using Class Blogmeister.  Usually it is to report a bug in the program, a lost password, or some misunderstanding about the blogging engine’s operations. 
Occasionally, teachers share with me how blogging has impacted their students’ learning.  Here are some excerpts from one such e-mail message from a […]

Speaking of Hitchhikr, there exists two listings on the main page of conferences that have been registered to date.  The first listing includes only conferences that will happen in the next 30 days (colored red), current conferences (colored blue),  and conferences that have happened in the last 30 days (colored gray).  Beneath that box is […]

ClustrMap image taken from Wesley Fryer’s Flickr account.  The map marks the locations of educators from around the world who participated in some way with the K12Online Conference.

For those of you who missed last year’s K12online Conference, this is a truly unique event that combines the benefits of face to face conference events with the […]

I’ve not hidden my skepticism about distance learning just like I remain cautious about multiuser virtual environments (Second Life).  Bandwagons concern me.  You get so many people on them, and they can crack the road, drawing energy and resources from more established technologies and techniques that are proving their worth.  But through the months and […]

Yesterday was the last TechForum.  Hall Davidson kicked the conference off with a keynote and I think we saw him at his very best.  The closing was flawless.  It was a lot of things that I’ve seen him present before, but much that was brand new.  He’s expanded on the concept of unique uses of […]

Jen Wagner, of Women of the Web, just asked in a comment on my receipt imp post, where I am in California.  Today, I’m in Long Beach, on the 8th floor of some fairly swanky hotel, with a partial view of the Queen Mary steam ship.  I’ll probably walk over there this afternoon for my […]

I ran across an interesting posting on Hitchhikr yesterday attached to NECC 2007.  Lcrosswe, a Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina Math teacher, laments in NECC puts math on a milk carton…
I have spent the last few days trying to refine my schedule for NECC and have run into a problem. I teach math at my school […]

I’m up early in the morning.  It’s 2:50AM, but I am on the West Coast, so that’s not so very early my time, and I was in bed by 8:30PM last night, so things aren’t so difficult as they might seem. 
But wait until 3:00 this afternoon.
More to the point of this blog posting — […]

..or at least they seemed funny at the time.  First, I was doing my early morning bike ride around Shelley Lake and happened upon a man who was looking for his dog — a Rottweiler.  That in itself is worth noting, but then he said, “He’s got a chair with him.”
I can only imagine the […]