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A screen shot that Scott took during the presentation.  The window to the left, with the arrow, is the slide show — via SlideShare.

It’s not every day that I get to do a presentation and stay home at the same time.  Scott Merrick contacted me a couple of weeks ago, describing a workshop he was […]

Brenda and I just got back from the Raleigh Farmer’s Market.  I was surprised at how busy they were.  We actually had to leave some stalls and come back later because of the demand –  mostly for peaches.  Most stalls were a repeat of tomatoes, field peas, young potatoes, okra, and just about every variety […]

Doug Johnson started yesterday’s blog in typical Blue Skunk fashion.
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I’ll admit that it was the duct tape on the cover that drew my attention to this book. Like all good Minnesotans, I use this silver miracle to fix almost everything. (If it […]

[Live blogged, so please forgive typos and awkward wording]
My sessions are over, and the ferry is waiting. But there is one final session, a panel discussion of some teenagers — the Net Generation. I middle schooler, one graduating senion, on rising senior, and an elementary school. The graduated senior just said that […]

Up early.  With no keynote to do today and with the video games session already part of my muscle memory, I’m reviewing some of my notes from the Games • Learning • Society conference.  I’m including some quotes here with some comments:
Instructional designers have no business designing games.  For instructional designers, its hard to design […]

Singing Vendors at Wildwood 2007

When I got to the convention center, in Wildwood, yesterday, I was informed immediately that the Internet was down, but that they were working on it and it should be up in minutes.  I was not very worried, because I was presenting on games in education, which is mostly presentation slides […]

[Live blogged — so please forgive typos and awkward wording]
Pink is describing how he was an extremely, unextraordinary student. His position in law school made the upper 90% possible. He went to law school because it was believed that you would be fine. It made sense in the 20th century. Those […]

I just love Skitch.  It is the perfect graphic utility.

While the Laptop Institute is winding down, and the Building Learning Communities conference is winding itself up, I’m sitting in the middle of nowhere.  It’s a Hampton Inn in Salisbury, Maryland, in the middle of the Delmar Penninsula.  It’s 4:11 and I just got through to […]

I’ve continued to be intrigued by Twitter, the web app that asks, “Why do I keep using this?” Well the answer is that tucked in between rants about the Cubs, crying babies, solitary bicycle rides, and proclamations of insomnia, are nuggets of knowledge and pathways to learning.
One example is this twit from David Jakes…
Trying […]

I got pounded yesterday for not including “librarians” in my list of educators and education stakeholders who need to rise to the challenge of adapting to the opportunities of video games.  Several comments accented this point, which was originally made by Jenny Levine…
AND libraries! Sorry to beat a dead horse, but I still believe that […]