Year: 2007
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Margaret Spellings is under fire
[Day 3 of my guest blogging…] U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings is under fire. Not only is the Department of Education dealing with the Reading First corruption scandal, challenges to the reauthorization of NCLB, and blowback from the recommendations of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education, apparently Secretary Spellings also is receiving…
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Be careful, be critical
eSchoolNews has a fantastic letter from the editor regarding the federal government’s recent evaluation of learning software for schools. The editor lambasts reporters’ overblown headlines, inappropriate and overbroad conclusions, and failure to adequately criticize and critically reflect upon the report and its accompanying publicity material. There was a recent dust-up at Dangerously Irrelevant as well…
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Permission to fail
I’ve got high schools on my mind. A high school teacher told me recently that her school allows students to try harder courses than they normally might take. For example, students might sign up for an Honors English class instead of a regular English class or an AP Government class instead of a normal Government class. These…
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Don’t hold your breath
[Thanks, Wesley, for the opportunity to be a guest blogger at Moving at the Speed of Creativity! I’ll do my best to live up to the challenge of blogging for a larger audience than I typically get at Dangerously Irrelevant.] One of the key beliefs of many edubloggers and educational technology enthusiasts is that digital…
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Welcome Scott McLeod!
I’d like to welcome Dr. Scott McLeod to the guest blogger “author’s chair” on Moving at the Speed of Creativity! I’ll be presenting in Holland, Michigan several times later this week, and Scott is going to share his thoughts and perspectives here in my absence. Scott is the author of the outstanding blog “Dangerously Irrelevant,”…
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More on network security from Mike Pennell (part 2)
More of my notes from the Networking Security lunch and learn on 4/17/2007 in Tulsa, to be published later as an audio podcast. Primary presenter is Mike Pennell from NewNet66. The five worst security mistakes end users make (according to the SANS institute) 1- failing to install anti-virus 2- opening unsolicited email attachments without verifying…
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Protecting school networks against attacks (Mike Pennell with NewNet66)
These are my notes from a network security presentation by Mike Pennell of NewNet66 in Oklahoma. I shared a brief overview for attendees and then turned over this presentation to Mike. I am recording this as an audio podcast and will post this subsequently in several parts. These are my notes from part 1 of…
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Frameworks for web 2.0
I’ve shared some new thoughts on The Infinite Thinking Machine in a post titled, “Building cognitive maps for the read/write web.” Technorati Tags: education, learning, web2.0
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Education needs to be read/write
Last week’s article “School Bus Becomes Mobile Classroom Thanks To iPods” in Arkansas may sound like a dream come true for technology-craving students, but I wonder if the underlying pedagogy of content transmission will ultimately permit the realization of the project’s idealistic goals? According to the article and accompanying video, the Sheridan school district in…
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Who is linking to a particular website?
I received a question today about tracking links to particular websites. I’m sure there are multiple ways to do this, but two ways are to use Technorati and Google. From the search page or advanced search page of each site, you can form search queries with the following syntax. Copy the URL of the website…