Year: 2007
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Welcome Dean Shareski
I’d like to welcome Dean Shareski to the guest blogger author’s chair here at “Moving at the Speed of Creativity.” Dean is going to share a few posts in the next couple of days while I’m “off-blog.”
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Praise for the NASA Digital Learning Network
Well, this week and last were really successful for the cause of interactive videoconferencing in Oklahoma in two different schools I’ve been helping. For over a month I’ve been planning, coordinating, and helping facilitate a series of videoconference connections for third graders in Edmond Public Schools with three different NASA Learning Centers, part of the…
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Blog comment problems here?
Have you had trouble leaving comments on my blog lately? I reconfigured my blog spam plug-ins awhile back, and it has REALLY helped– almost eliminating all blog spam entirely, but it seems comments have been quieter than usual. That may be because people are just not wanting to comment… but I want to make sure…
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We can’t mandate what matters
Great letter to the editor of the New York Times by Keith W. Frome in Buffalo, New York: To the Editor: We travel around the country helping urban and rural high schools increase college enrollment rates for economically disadvantaged students. The principals and administrators we meet say that what they need are teachers who love…
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Reflections on risk, complexity, choice and engagement
I read an excellent article this evening titled “Raising the Bar” by Wayne Curtis in the summer issue of Wondertime magazine, which unfortunately is NOT available electronically for free. The article is about the historical and contemporary evolution of playground equipment for kids, but I found several of Curtis’ comments to be insightful about learning…
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Rather than innovate, Microsoft may litigate against open source
On May 14, 2007, senior editor of Fortune magazine, Roger Parloff, published the article “Microsoft takes on the free world.” According to the article: More than half the companies in the Fortune 500 are thought to be using the free operating system Linux in their data centers. But now there’s a shadow hanging over Linux…
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The joy of Juice Receiver and PodNova
For the past year, I’ve used the free PodNova website and free PodNova desktop client to manage the podcasts to which I subscribe and listen. I use iTunes to actually listen to most podcasts and synchronize those I’ve downloaded to my iPod. (See my post “PodNova and Podcast Subscriptions” on TechLearning from March 2006 for…
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Humanizing discussions about immigration and borders
I have been thinking about issues relating to immigration, the politics of borders and walls, the importance of international relationships and friendships, and the responsibility we all have to tangibly promote the causes of understanding and cooperation in our own contexts and spheres of influence. Several events have influenced my thinking lately and precipitated new…
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Good thoughts from Carl Honore
I’ve almost finished reading Carl Honore’s book “In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed,” and I discovered his 20 minute TED talk video today recorded in July 2005, and posted online in February 2007. These are a few of my notes from that presentation. We are marinated the culture of speed today, our…
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A loving, masterful teacher: PRICELESS
These are the words of my 9 year old, which he formulated on his own to share a message of thanks with his teacher who has made such a positive impact on his life this past year. Since we moved from Texas and he didn’t know anyone here in Oklahoma last August, as you can…