My notes from our college team site visit to UT on 29 April 2005. UT College of Education Site Visit29 April 2005 http://www.utexas.edu/education/laptop.html Journey has been 6 semesters, 3 years here at UT- jumped into the water 3 year ago- lots of things to take care of in the beginning: infrastructure, support for faculty, support
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Eric Von Hippel’s new book “Democratizing Innovation” is on the cutting edge of creativity and IP for several reasons. p> I have not read it yet, but I ran across Eric Von Hippel’s new book “Democratizing Innovation” today. It is published by MIT press but also available as a PDF download for free: http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ.htm His
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A continuing dialog relating to school reform, inspired and enabled by blog postings. Earlier this month I posted a blog entry entitled “Yes we need supportive families, but we need school reform too,” which was a response to a thoughtful article written by Thom Powell in Oregon concerning school reform– posted on Ian Jukes’ weblog.
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Hmmm. Are the best things in life free? In Day 11 of Rick Warren’s “The Purpose Driven Life,” he mentions a 450 year old text by a cook in a French monastery. This book, “Practicing the Presence of God” by Brother Lawrence, is available for a reasonable price at Amazon.com, but I thought that– at
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These thoughts are a response to a forwarded email concerning Islam, copied from this page on the Masjid Annur website. The main point here is not to discount the important need to respect people with other faiths, and accord them the equal protection they deserve and are due under the laws of our nation and
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This article in this week’s K-State collegian reveal some common misconceptions about Windows-alternative operating systems and those who use them. I think Bill Wall, writing the article “Apple a waste of marketshare; PCs offer more useful experience,” surely must have written this piece as a wry attempt to get some Mac users he knows up
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Oh my gosh. Can technology get any cooler than this?! I bought a new iPod Shuffle today, charged it this afternoon and evening when I was teaching class, plugged it in to the computer to sync it up with iTunes tonight, and have just started to experience musical nirvana. My old 5 GB (original) iPod
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Free translation websites make the impossible now possible. Thanks to the Arabic to English translation website http://english.sakhr.com/ and a login ID from www.bugmenot.com, I read some posts tonight IN ARABIC from an Iraqi writing about, among other things, the rebuilding of schools in Iraq. Omar posted this message today that includes a multitude of links
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This is a letter to the editor written by a friend and fellow educator here in the Lubbock area, and is reprinted here with permission. —– reprint of a letter to the Lubbock AJ editor follows —– 12 April 2005 Dear Editor, The federal legislation of No Child Left Behind is a poor attempt at
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One of the adult leaders in our church’s youth group and youth members have written and created an original song and music video well worth seeing! My friend and fellow church member at WPC Paul Landers sent me a link this evening to a musical song he wrote and produced using GarageBand, and a music
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Take 7 minutes and view this video, then read the article if you have some extra time. These kids and teachers say what I would like to express much more powerfully and persuasively than I can with text in this blog. What do you think of high stakes testing? You need to have an opinion,
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Have you spent time lately playing with Google Maps, now that they have added satellite imagery? This resource is a geographers dream! What fun! I have been reading about many bloggers who have been spending time on the Google Maps website, since last week they added a mind-blowing new feature: the ability to toggle between
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What is the response of textbook lobby representatives to HB4, which is forward looking and seeks to transform in fundamental ways the manner in which education is offered and experienced in the state of Texas? Sadly, to engage in personal attacks. In my philosophy 101 class in college, I remember learning that in ideological debate–
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Some thoughts on Thom Powell’s points relating to school reform and Bill Gates’ call to revamp high schools. Ian Jukes has a posting on his blog this week responding to the comments Bill Gates made at the National Education Summit on High Schools in February. I agree with the basic point of Thom Powell’s article:
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Some thoughts on the recently released 45 minute short film, Local Voices, Global Visions. Educational technology has potential to serve as a transformational change agent. That is the underlying assumption behind our statewide Technology Immersion Pilot (TIP) project, and has been an evolving article of faith in my own pedagogic creed since I started teaching
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