Month: October 2005
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Hopkins 1-to-1 computing project
Tim Wilson and Scott Roiger’s presentation from last week on the Hopkins (Minnesota) 1-to-1 computing project is available as a podcast. Interesting that because of the unique characteristics, the Hopkins school board did not implement their laptop initiative with the goal of improving test scores. This may be an incidental outcome, but it is not…
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Web Collaborator
Web Collaborator (webcollaborator.com) is a read/write web (web 2.0) online tool perfect for student projects. It combines a Wiki and a discussion board to help students collaborate on group projects. Thanks to Tim Wilson for the head’s up on this. 🙂
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Blog post daylight savings time issue resolved
Quirkly issue that cropped up this weekend when we fell back 1 hour for daylight savings time. I posted content using Ecto as usual to my blog, but mysteriously the posts would not appear. I finally figured out the time was an hour off, so the post wasn’t being shown by the WordPress server software…
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Upcoming book reading
I have recently ordered several new books I am looking forward to reading in upcoming weeks. These include: “Being Fluent With Information Technology” (Committee on Information Technology Literacy) “Brave New World” (Aldous Huxley) “John Dewey and the Art of Teaching : Toward Reflective and Imaginative Practice” (Douglas J. Simpson, Michael J. B. Jackson, Judy C.…
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Whine, the Beloved Country!
James Glassman’s article in the June 2004 edition of The American Enterprise, “Whine, the Beloved Country!” is a good read. Consider this excerpt: And it’s not just outsourcing that brings out the crybabies. Encouraged by trial lawyers, Americans now seek redress for practically every grievance, including the fact that they are fat, or that banks…
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Room208 Shoutout to Mills Murfee podcast!
Hey cool, the 3rd and 4th grade students in Room 208 in Wells, Maine included a “shoutout” to the 2nd graders producing the Mills Murfee Podcast here in Lubbock, Texas in their latest podcast from October 28th! 🙂 If you are listening to the podcast in iTunes, you can forward to the 14 min 19…
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Digital Definers of the New Teacher Education
Well, my writing project of the past several weeks is now in a completed “draft” form. 🙂 The current abstract for my new “Digital Definers of the New Teacher Education” article (available in PDF format) is: While a “new teacher education” has evolved over the past several years in the United States, in large part…
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Weblogs in the Writing Classroom
Bowling Green State University’s website “The Year of the Blog: Weblogs in the Writing Classroom” contains good information for teachers wanting to learn more about blogs and actually use them effectively with students. Included sections on “blog tools and how-tos,” “blogs as writing practice,” and “blogs as class content” include great examples and links to…
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Wikiquote
Wikiquote is “a free online compendium of quotations in every language, including sources (where known), translations of non-English quotes, and links to Wikipedia for further information!” My favorite quotation of the moment is one made by Eric Hoffer, included on Wikiquote’s page for him: In a time of drastic change it is the learners who…
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Storytelling with YackPack, Persuasive Technologies
I just learned about YackPack thanks to an email from BJ Fogg at Stanford, who found my eLearn2005 presentation about podcasting online. Yakpack is a really innovative web 2.0 free service that lets people stay in touch with their own “circles” of friends via recorded audio messages. Like podcasting, yakpack lets people use the power…