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A while back, I subscribed to the RSS feed for the comments on 2¢ Worth so that I could be notified when people had added conversation to any of my blog entries.  When it happens, I just click from the aggregator into the blog so that I can follow the thread from the original entry.
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I’m on my way out the door, but this just popped into my aggregator.  It may have been there for a while, just hiding.  But the latest findings from the PEW Internet & American Life Project are interesting.
Pew Internet: Parent and Teen Internet Use:
Parents today are less likely to say that the internet has been […]

Yesterday, I described how residents of San Diego County, who utilized the North County Times’ online discussion tools to call for and deliver needed news about conditions in their neighborhoods.  It was a different kind of journalism that emerged out of a traditional journalism.  It was resourceful and ruthless learning.
Another example occurs to me.  I’ve […]

Several days ago, I received a voice mail from a newspaper reporter who wanted to talk about social networking.  I was working a conference at the time, and with sessions, meetings, and evening banquets, I was not able to return his call until I reached the airport, two days later.  His name was Gary Warth, […]

I’m currently planning (in my head so far) a presentation and extended workshop on personal learning networks. There are a couple of questions that are rolling around in my head right now, that I’d like to cast out into this cauldron of perspectives.
The questions are:

In what ways are personal learning networks like […]

I have a general rule about my public speaking.  Don’t follow kids — and never follow a school board member who’s just read The World is Flat.  After my experiences at the New York State School Board’s Association conference in NYC this week, I have a new one.  Don’t follow The Fonz!
Henry Winkler (actor, director, […]

A Flickr Group that I belong to, the offices of edubloggers.  We love what we do.  We probably love where we do it.

As I said in an earlier blog entry (Bring you Heart with You), I spoke at a business conference earlier this week.  The topic was mostly about the millennial generation as your employees […]

A lovely picture I took early that morning outside my hotel room…

I’ve not been able to write the last few days for a couple of reasons, not the least of which was getting seriously lagged out from too many days on the west coast.  It’s a terrible feeling, when I plant myself on the sofa […]

Perhaps one of the most contentious aspects of my country’s No Child Left Behind legislation is how it measures the success of education reform — high-stakes, standardized tests, developed by state departments of education, based on state standards.  There is nothing inherently  wrong with wanting to assure that every child is mastering basic literacy and […]

I’ve not been looking forward to this weekend as much as I guess I should.  Yesterday, I was at the Cybercitizenship  Summit at Yahoo, in Sunnyvale, and on Tuesday, I’ll be in San Diego.  So rather than spend more than half a day on planes and in airports flying home, I’m just camped out in […]