Category: blogs
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Back with margin!
Many, many heartfelt thanks to Miguel Guhlin for doing a wonderful job as the guest blogger on Moving at the Speed of Creativity this past week! I had a very relaxing and enjoyable vacation with my family, camping in the mountains of New Mexico, and am now back into the thick of work and writing…
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Welcome guest blogger: Miguel Guhlin
I will be taking about a week’s break from blogging, and Miguel Guhlin has generously agreed to fill in as a guest blogger here on “Moving at the Speed of Creativity.” Miguel is the author of the edtech blog “Around the Corner,” and one of the most passionate advocates for engaged learning, constructive school reform,…
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Podcasting politicos
Podcasting continues to get more mainstream. According to yesterday’s article “Politicians Get Help in New Online Media:” Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., responds on a weekly basis to questions on his blog. He also is among several politicians who have recorded podcasts, self-made audio or video broadcasts that can be downloaded from the Internet…
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Blogs like a neutron bomb!
Darren Kuropatwa describes the impact of using of blogs in his high school math classes as being “like a neutron bomb” in terms of their positive impact on teaching and learning in an outstanding skypecast posted by Dean Shareski recently. If you are not currently checking in with Dean (as well as Darren) on their…
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No cross-post this week
I am trying something different and NOT cross-posting to the TechLearning Blog this week. As you may know, I am one of the TechLearning “blogerati” and post each Friday on their website blog. In the past I have generally cross-posted both here and there, but tonight I wrote a new post about IE7 Beta for…
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Conversations and content creation
The exciting power of the web is not in mere information access, but in the interactions, conversations, and CREATION of content that is enabled through web 2.0. I know this is a common theme for me and many others in the edublogsophere, but it is still a counter-cultural idea in many schools and warrants repeating…
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Texas Educators: Join Texas Leads!
Calling all innovative and forward-thinking educational leaders in Texas! Calling other Texas teachers who may not presently consider themselves “technologically cutting-edge,” but want to learn more about how technology is and can be effectively utilized as a tool for engagement and learning in the 21st century classroom! A new educational listserv (and blog) has been…
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GLEF Spiral Notebook Blog
Edutopia, the website of the George Lucas Educational Foundation, publishes a collaborative blog called “Spiral Notebook.” One of the contributors, Patsy Lanclos, is one of my favorite educational technology mentors and a super thinker on issues relating to authentic education and engaged learning via technology tools. Patsy was a primary author of our Texas state…
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IE 7 Beta for Windows
Internet Explorer 7 for Windows (Beta) is available for download from Microsoft. A restart is required after installing it. The major advantage I see right away for IE 7 (and have heard about for some time) is native support for XML feeds (RSS/ATOM feeds). In all previous versions of Internet Explorer (on all platforms: Windows…
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Choices are more problematic than tools
Andy gets it. Why can’t more policymakers? In a comment response to his own blog post concerning proposed US legislation to fiat censorship of many read/write web and social networking websites in US schools and public libraries, Andy Carvin writes: The big problem here is that they’re trying to ban an entire class of online…