Day: August 30, 2006

  • Curing Nature Deficit Disorder

    Milton Chen has a great article in the latest EduTopia titled, “Curing Nature Deficit Disorder.” Like Milton, my wife read the book “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder” by Richard Louv, the same book that inspired him to write this new article. I have written on this topic myself several…

  • Rural and Muni WiFi projects

    Every community needs visionary leaders who see future trends and work hard to bring related opportunities to their town or city. Two recent cases involving community wifi networking projects hightlight this contention. Floydada is a small community near Lubbock, Texas, and is the only participanting district in the Texas statewide technology immersion pilot project to…

  • Courage defined

    Many people mistakenly seem to equate the terms “courage” and “bravery” with an absence of fear. This is not the case. I remember free-fall parachuting five times to earn my jump wings in the Air Force, and there definitely WAS a fair amount of fear involved in those experiences! People who are brave are not…

  • Classroom Blog World Tour

    I introduced some students and teachers at Greenville School today in south-central Oklahoma to the classroom blogosphere using a customized Google Earth KML file I named, the “Classroom Blog World Tour.” (This requires Google Earth.) I let students take turns “driving the mouse” on my laptop, connected to a LCD projector, while they literally “flew”…