Monthly Archives: October 2005

A research report written up in the Times Online (of the UK) showed up in today’s ASCD Smartbrief. The research indicates that, contrary to what most people have assumed, kids that have grown up using text messaging are better writers … Continue reading →

For any of you reading this from somewhere in our area, the ESD is moving. Friday the 28th was our last day in Burien. Between furniture installation and moving our our hundreds of bright yellow plastic tubs o’ stuff, we … Continue reading →

Even though I think that higher ed lagged behind K-12 in ed tech for quite awhile, some of those college folks are really starting to show us a thing or two. The Oct. 17 issue of U.S. News has a … Continue reading →

Raising parents’ awareness of what students are doing on the web outside of school is a very important thing. There is a whole world of blogging and instant messaging that can lead to online bullying and other nasty situations if … Continue reading →

You would have to work pretty hard to have avoided seeing all the press last week about the new Apple iPod with video. While most of the chatter was over being able to download television shows, what has me most … Continue reading →

CNET has a good article today on blogging in schools. (I know, it seems kind of circular to post a blog about blogging. Then again, many bloggers just talk about other bloggers…) Imagine having a setting where every kid writes … Continue reading →

What a difference a couple of years can make. Two years ago I would have been all over the latest announcement of new Palm handhelds, reading as many reviews as I could and wondering how the new devices might work … Continue reading →

So, just to keep on a theme, yet another potentially disruptive technology will be coming our way next year. A group of 27 technology companies have agreed to a new standard for the “Wi-Fi” networking standard. The versions of Wi-Fi … Continue reading →

MIT is hosting a free streaming video of a presentation by Thomas Friedman. He is the author of the best-selling book The World is Flat, and in this video he covers the main ideas of this provocative book. He looks … Continue reading →

And next in our lineup of potentially disruptive technologies, we have broadband network access over power lines. This technology would allow power companies to provide high-speed network access through your power service, so you would theoretically be able to connect … Continue reading →