Monthly Archives: March 2006

I was reading an article by David Jakes at the TechLearning blogs site, and followed a link to an intriguing site called Digital Stories. If you’re interested in digital storytelling, check out this site. Students and teachers can submit stories … Continue reading →

Yet another article about online learning, this time in the Christian Science Monitor. There isn’t too much radically new, but it does reflect this continues to be an increasing trend. The Florida Virtual High School is growing at the phenomenal … Continue reading →

The $100 OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project headed by Nicholas Negroponte is having a ripple effect. For instance, it’s a pretty good sign as to how seriously the project is being taken by Microsoft that Bill Gates felt the … Continue reading →

Andy Carvin has a good post today about schools being blocked from editing Wikipedia. Not blocked by their district, but blocked by Wikipedia itself. Apparently there was a long history of vandalism of articles from that school’s IP address, and … Continue reading →

You know, we’re having enough trouble trying to get things like instant messaging (appropriately used, of course) into schools. It doesn’t help when everyone’s concerns are justifed by the companies making the programs or services we want. I just upgraded … Continue reading →

I’ve been spending a lot of time over the last few months thinking about the purpose of blogging for educators. I guess I should say purposes, since there are clearly many good reasons. For a while, though, I was beginning … Continue reading →

We taught a workshop today called Weblogs, Wikis, and Podcasts, Oh My!, and it seemed to go really well. We had twenty people, and we spent the day visiting educational weblogs like Glen Malone’s, learning how to use Bloglines, creating … Continue reading →

Kathy Sierra has another great blog entry today over at Creating Passionate Users. She starts off by sharing a discussion with her teenage daughter about MySpace, which leads to observations about what makes services like MySpace work. Part of it … Continue reading →

My son left on a band trip this afternoon. He spent the last two days packing and sorting, trying to make sure he had everything he needed. About an hour before he was picked up to go to the airport, … Continue reading →

Every once in awhile, I see a new piece of technology that makes me wonder “How did they ever think of that?” I looked at a video demonstration of a new digital storytelling software package called MemoryMiner. It isn’t a … Continue reading →