Archive for September, 2007

I Went Flat Last Night

It’s not nearly as good as being there — Especially if I could have been in Sidney Sydney, Australia.  But, lets face it.  It’s a flat world.  To export my services, I do not, necessarily, have to export myself. 
So, after only two and a half hours of sleep last night, the alarm on my […]

Virtual Ed

When you spend as much time traveling, as I and others do, time has a way of weirdly skewing.  It’s sort of a doppler effect thing, where what I’ll be doing for the next week, tends to bunch up in front of me worrying me, demanding my time and effort, and what I did only […]

A Good Day in PA

Atlanta airport seems to have undergone some major face lift.  Marble floors, more upscale eateries, and cushy chairs at the gates.  Nice!  Still crowded, but nice!  I pulled out my laptop, and thought for a moment, “free WiFi?”  But no, your choice: Boing, Concourse, Sprint, Access, Opti-Fi, or T-Mobile, all for $7.95 for 24 hours.  […]

My Head Hurts

OK, I’m sitting in Jim Gates’ keynote at the Classrooms for the Future Boot Camp — great stuff, lots of cool online tools.  He’s also showing a wiki page that was created by a student as part of an assignment.  The student found a great video on YouTube about the culture of the country he […]

The World is a’Twitter

There use to be, at conferences, a bulletin board, where you could post messages for friends.  This, of course, was before laptops, WiFi, and mobile phones with SMS.  This, of course, was a long time ago (nudge nudge, snicker snicker).  It always seemed kinda useless to me, because I do not think that I ever […]

Classrooms for the Future

I’m on my way to Pennsylvania, where I’ll speak to a group of coaches.  They aren’t sports coaches, in the traditional sense.  But they will be going forth, to lead their schools in the exciting sport of “redesigning education.”   It’s certainly going to require teamwork, and it’s going to require that team to exercise […]

Could it Happen Here?

September has been a wonderfully relaxing month for me, with most of it spent at home.  Septembers and Mays are typically slow.  But for the last few days I’ve been on the road for one of only three travels I’m doing the entire month.  I got home, late last night, from working at a middle […]

Collaboration in Action and a Foreshadowing

Jennifer Wagner, Vicki Davis, Sharon Peters, and the host, Cheryl Oakes.

I was preparing for my workshop today in Las Vegas when I ran across this photo from Cheryl Oakes Flickr stream.  It evidently comes from the recent WOW2 podcast gathering and using iChat’s Multi-way conference feature.  I have just one question.  Would your students be […]

Having Hitchhikr Envy

It’s rather early in the morning.  I’ve already been to Second Life, for the first time in weeks, and scanned through the education folder in my aggregator, and now, find myself pining over the upcoming conferences I wish I was attending.  Starting tomorrow is the Learning 2.0 conference in Shanghai.  This conference, as I understand […]

Animoto Easily Rocks

When I looked at Animoto today, and realized what it did, my initial thought was,
                 “foul!”
                              “Unfair!” […]


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