Year: 2007
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Singing “Not on the Test”
This is a sad but accurate commentary on our current state of affairs in K-12 education in the United States: NPR’s January 1st show: A Song for Students: ‘Not on the Test.’ If you’re looking for a short (like 2 minute) attention-getter for teachers to start a professional development session or conference presentation, this song…
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Restoring the IE7 Menu Bar
After upgrading a Windows XP computer to Internet Explorer 7, users are often confused because the menu bar is not turned on by default. (The FILE, EDIT, VIEW, etc menu bar) To turn the menu bar back on, click on TOOLS and select menu bar. Then you can make familiar choices, like choosing TOOLS –…
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Developing blog post topics
Encouraged by Brian and Miguel, here’s a go at sharing how I select and develop blog post topics. Honestly, it’s a very organic, unpredictable, and dynamical process. One key is obviously making the TIME to write. Traveling and being away from home certainly provides that, so as I’m on a trip at present, I’m blogging…
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Opposing ethnocentrism in schools and society
Sunday’s Dallas Morning News carried the article “FB schools have different view of immigrants,” relating the story of the Carrollton-Farmers Branch school district that continues to focus on educating its diverse student population despite political shenanigans by local politicians over immigration issues. According to the article: The Farmers Branch City Council declared English the official…
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WikiPedia user page, Oklahoma Digital Centennial project
After seeing Stephen Klein’s extensive WikiPedia user page (linked from Ethan Zuckerman’s post about OLPC implementation today) I decided to create my own WikiPedia user page. The risk of doing this, I suppose, is that someone could edit my page and put something there I wouldn’t want included. (I am NOT throwing down a glove…
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Blog post listeners, podcatchers and accessibility
I received an email today from a blog reader who is using the “listen to this post” link at the bottom of many of my posts to hear rather than read my posts. She is having trouble listening to my post on John Seely Brown’s interview with Steve Hargadon. Her email prompted me to login…
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Using Google Notebook, Google Reader, and Firefox
I’m attending a three-day training session in Arkansas this week, and tomorrow I’m going to share a session on “Using Google Notebook, Google Reader, and Firefox.” I created the resource page for this session (appropriately enough) in Google Notebook and shared it as a publicly accessible webpage. I included multiple reasons for using Google Notebook,…
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Rules for the Revolution (podcasting that is!)
I discovered the Creative Commons Podcasting Legal Guide today, which looks like a superb resource for educational podcasters as well as others. In his forward to the guide, Dr. Lawrence Lessig writes: …my hope for this Guide (which in addition to copyright addresses publicity rights and trademark law) is that it will begin to make…
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John Seely Brown on rethinking schools
I discovered John Seely Brown and some of his on-target thinking with respect to educational reform in December before Christmas, and am thrilled to see today that Steve Hargadon has just posted a podcast interview with John that looks outstanding. I’ll be adding this to my “to listen” list this week as I travel to…