2¢ Worth

I got this note yesterday from my friend, Jeff Whipple, in Fredericton, Canada.
I have heard a lot about e-paper over the last couple of years, but hadn’t really seen much evidence as to the possibilities of it replacing traditional paper - until now.

You can read the rest of his notes at his blog, Whip Blog… […]

Miguel Guhlin (Around the Corner V2) tells a wonderful story about his daughter’s work on KidPub, “..the world’s largest online collection of stories written by kids for kids!”  She wrote a story for KidPub called in the Middle, about a family of five children, two identical twins, the oldest, two more identical twins, the youngest, […]

I just finished a presentation for the Clinton City Schools in Sampson County, North Carolina.  This morning session was with central office staff and school principals.  But at least half of the audience was made up of community members, parents, board members, and presidents of the local PTOs. 
It was a fun presentation.  But the […]

[Another Conversation Starter]
I was scanning through one of those “Which countries are doing a better job of taking tests?” reports when I ran across this in the chapter on context.
According to the National Science Foundation (NSF, www.nsf.gov/statistics), the average U.S.
citizen understands very little science. For example: 

66% do not understand DNA, “margin of error,” […]

The last few weeks have been pretty intense with travel.  My life has consisted of navigating a wild variety of travel modes, trying to remember my current hotel room number, presenting to fantastic audiences, conversing and learning, resting as much as I could, and not a lot of writing.

The most of Alaska I got […]

I do not know where this idea came from, that was banging around in my head when I woke at 3:30 this morning.  I think that it was partly a subconscious reflection of a very interesting Daniel Hecht mystery (Bones of the Barbary Coast) that I finished last night.  It may also partly be subconscious […]

Our demonstration of social networking yesterday was nothing less than amazing.  Even Brenda was impressed when I showed her what happened to that wiki page in just the first 10 minutes.  The presentation on social networking in the afternoon, at the MEGA meeting, was over in 45 minutes (something of a real effort for me).  […]

I will be doing two sessions in the next two of days about social networking for educators.  There are some basic questions about social networking that I plan to explore, hopefully modeling social networking in the process. 
I’d like to produce a demonstration of social networking by capturing the update of a wiki page about […]

I had a pleasant conversation last week with Steve Nelson of the Association of Alaska School Boards while working at their annual conference in Anchorage.  Steve manages their 1:1 initiative called the Consortium for Digital Learning.  Our discussion was mostly professional and may show up as an upcoming podcast (hear two-part podcast with Holly Jobe, […]

I’m sitting in the delightful Portland Airport with a Starbucks in sight, but nothing else that strikes of a chain.  Right now I’m sitting in an area that is labeled only by the sign for Classic Pianos: Portland’s Lowest Prices for Highest Quality.  The resting area is ringed by two concentric circles of seating pods, […]