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  • Create a skype button – responsibly

    I had a nice chat over Skype with Paul Schwan today, who is a fifth grade teacher in Fort Myers, Florida. This was only the third or fourth time I’ve had someone “skype me out of the blue” from my personal contact page, which lists my skype status (online/available or not) as well as a…

  • Questioning school funding trends and mandatory attendance

    Discussions about School 2.0 should not take place in vacuum. We need to be realistic about ways schools can and should be changed, and one of the most basic things we need to address is school finance. I addressed this briefly in my spotlight address at the National Educational Computing Conference in Atlanta in June,…

  • Sorry teachers, but the read/write web is not shutting down

    I’ve sensed for some time that some school leaders, who are (in many cases) banning technologies like cell phones and iPods from classrooms, would prefer it if the Internet just went away. Rather than mourn, this group of people would actually celebrate if the spoof news skit “The Internet Has Crashed” was real. According to…

  • The future is unwritten

    I flew down to Houston today, and had an opportunity to listen in the airport, in the air, and a bit on the cab ride to my hotel to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates’ recent interview at the D5 conference. The interview and subsequent Q&A lasts 1.5 hours, and is available as a free download…

  • Here come Star Trek communicators

    When I visited Circuit City today to purchase their last iRiver T10, my eyes were immediately drawn to a new mp3 device on the shelf: the Sony mylo. This is not “merely” an mp3 player, however, any more than the iPhone (when it is released in June) is going to be “just” an iPod. Like…

  • Bloglines Imagewall backlash

    Miguel Guhlin is calling for a boycott on Bloglines based on their newly announced “Image Wall” feature which dynamically updates a page with fresh, user-contributed/posted images from the web. Before you actually view the imagewall, users have to agree to the following AUP: As Audrey, the first commenter to Miguel’s post noted, clicking on any…

  • IM assists in a local hostage crisis

    Well, today was a bit scary for people living in Edmond, Oklahoma, where I live just north of Oklahoma City. A man off the street broke into a woman’s house, took her hostage, went to a bank and then Home Depot where the woman escaped by loudly yelling “Man with a gun!” He then proceeded…

  • Educational web 2.0 tools

    Solution Watch’s post “Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0” has a very comprehensive list of read/write web tools of interest to educators and students. There are quite a few here I had not heard of before, some of the more interesting are: Gradefix: “Gradefix intelligently organizes and prioritizes all of your homework…

  • The case for instant messaging in the classroom

    In most if not all 1:1 student laptop initiatives, “instant messaging” is a hot topic for both students and teachers. Typically and predictably, students want access to instant messaging, while many teachers and administrators see IM as a distraction comparable to video games. Both IM and video games are often regarded as “problems” for the…

  • Our voices DO matter

    I posted the following as a comment response to Andrew Pass, who was commenting on Angela Stevens’ post “Laptop Initiatives and Standardized Testing.” I feel strongly about this, so I’m reposting here with a few additional thoughts. The part of Andrew’s comment I responded to was: Perhaps educational bloggers haven’t discussed this topic [standards and…