Monthly Archives: September 2005

There is a very sobering article on computer security in this week’s issue of InfoWorld. In the last year or so, the major threats have moved from young hackers to professional criminal organizations. The types of attacks are quickly getting … Continue reading →

Looks like I was a day early on the $100 laptops. Nicholas Negroponte did presentation at an MIT conference about the project yesterday. There is an article in Yahoo, an extensive report on the presentation by blogger Andy Carvin, and … Continue reading →

Last year Nicholas Negroponte and his colleagues at MIT proposed the idea of creating $100 student laptops. The idea seems to have moved beyond pie-in-the-sky and a step closer to reality. Some of the companies that have joined the project … Continue reading →

Lego robotics time! The 2005-2006 challenge for the FIRST Lego League project is up and ready. This year’s challenge is called Ocean Odyssey. If you are not familiar with the FIRST Lego League, they run annual events where teams compete … Continue reading →

Some people figure out ways to create a focal point that combines a variety of disciplines. The artist Bathsheba Grossman is one of those people. She is a sculptor that uses high-tech devices to create intricate sculptures of mathematical and … Continue reading →

We had a great time this summer with a new program called Digital Photography Bootcamp. The project was sponsored by the Northwest Council for Computers in Education (NCCE), and took place at Pack Forest near Mt. Rainier. We had two … Continue reading →

Ok, this looks too cool. Mitsubishi has developed an interactive tabletop. It’s basically an interactive whiteboard laying flat and functioning as a table or desk. What’s really creative is that through a rather sophisticated series of antennas and separate receivers … Continue reading →

The World Wildlife Fund has a cool website tracking migrating leatherback sea turtles. Eleven turtles have been tagged with transmitters that monitor their locations, as well as depth, temperature, and other data. For a science program, it is a really … Continue reading →

The Milwaukie Journal Sentinel has published a well-written series on technology in schools (simple registration required). It very thoughtfully looks at the questions and issues, in the context of how schools are dealing with the end of a tech spending … Continue reading →

This article really opens my thinking on the use of ePortfolios. It’s written from a higher-ed perspective, and describes a more robust, student-driven kind of system than I have seen so far. (When can we incorporate student weblogs into their … Continue reading →