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  • Happy 4th, a new look…

    We had a relaxing and outstanding 4th of July in Edmond, Oklahoma! One of the highlights of our local parade this morning was seeing Darth Vader riding a Segway!   Besides enjoying the company of family and friends as well as some good food today, I was thrilled to have time (at last) to update my WordPress…

  • Podcast167: From Hand It In to Publish It: Re-Envisioning Our Classrooms by Will Richardson

    This podcast features a recording of Will Richardson’s spotlight presentation at NECC 2007 titled, “From Hand It In to Publish It: Re-Envisioning Our Classrooms.” Will provided a thorough list of major points and links on a wiki site he created to accompany his presentation, included in the podcast shownotes. Will continues to challenge educational leaders…

  • Nuggets from NECC (2)

    Wow. NECC 2007 is officially over, and my brain is feeling pretty full. Yesterday was a day full of conversations in the hallways and at the EduBlogger lounge for me (along with my session in the afternoon.) Today was highlighted by several wonderful sessions, more hallway conversations, and a great series of lessons on advanced…

  • New TechEdge article

    I’ve written a new article for the TechEdge, the journal of the Texas Computer Education Association, titled “Join the Global Education Conversation.” This will be published in print in their fall issue. In the article I go into a bit more detail about read-only and read-write culture than I have in the conference keynotes I’ve…

  • Seattle Schools Embrace Moderated Read/Write Technologies

    At last, a VERY encouraging headline about digital social networking in schools! According to Thursday’s article “Seattle Public Schools builds social-learning site for its tech-savvy teens” the district has rolled out its own website for encouraging safe and appropriate read/write sharing by students in the school district. The site is called L3RN: Similar to the…

  • Administrators Who Blog, Read Blogs, and Podcast

    My latest “Tech Trends” article in the summer issue of Smart Technologies “Interactive Educator” magazine is available for free download. The article, “Top-Level Bloggers: Social technologies move into the office” starts on page 40. The entire summer 2007 issue is available as a PDF download. (5 MB) Whether or not your principal, assistant principal, superintendent…

  • Lessig turns from IP to politics and government corruption

    Wow. One of my favorite thinkers and writers about copyright and intellectual property issues, Dr. Lawrence Lessig of the Stanford Law school, has decided to change directions. Instead of focusing on those topics, he is going to focus (for the next decade) on our political process (in the United States) and specifically the corruption which…

  • The conversation is open

    Are the leaders in the edublogosphere “zealots,” as Tim Holt suggests? Are people being intentionally “not invited to the buffet” of conversations out here? Tim poses some good, challenging questions in these posts. Here are a few thoughts. I’ll be curious to read what you think. Ideas. Ideas are what really matter in the edublogosphere.…

  • Taxonomy versus Folksonomy

    I’ve written a new post on the TechLearning blog titled “Farewell, linear conversations?” Technorati Tags: blog, blogging, luddite, web2.0

  • NECC 2007 Flickr group and blogging

    Derek Baird has created a Flickr group for NECC 2007. If you’re going to NECC in Atlanta and planning to take pictures, please join the group and contribute! Users of David Warlick’s HitchHikr page for NECC07 have suggested the following tags for the conference: necc2007 neccprep necc07 The NECC HitchHikr page has a link which…