Category: blogs
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Great feed aggregator
David Warlick has setup a great feed aggregator for both the CUE and MACUL conferences that took place last week. Functioning as a “feed river,” this page brings together different blog posts relating to these conference events and presentations there. David also included a column of posts that include links to his blog. Overall this…
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Illinois conference bloggers
The 2006 Illinois Technology Conference for Educators was held March 2 and 3, and an official conference blog helped document the event and participants’ “takeaways.” The dialog is still continuing online. Check it out to learn what hundreds of educators from Illinois and other parts of the country were talking about last week related to…
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Kids respond to Xanga publicity
I had an interesting conversation with a reporter this evening on the phone. She called to ask about student podcasting, and we discussed different schools in our state (Texas) as well as around the country who are using podcasts in creative ways. She told me an interesting story that happened about a year ago when…
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ClustrMaps
It’s a small world after all. Every once in awhile a web 2.0 technology, website, or service makes me exclaim loudly and almost (or actually) fall out of my chair. ClustrMaps is the cause today. The map below shows the locations of over 200 different people who have visited my blog in the last 24…
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In praise of Spam Karma
Spam Karma 2 is an outstanding plug-in for WordPress I regard as priceless. (It is in fact, free.) It is sad so many people (apparently) find it productive to spend their time figuring out ways to fill email inboxes with spam as well as blog comment databases. These people really should get a life….. Thanks…
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Year of The Hangman Book Blog
Eric Langhorst’s 8th grade American History students in Liberty, Missouri are participating in a creative blogging activity. Eric has created the “The Year of The Hangman Book Blog” to encourage students to engage in thoughtful discussions with classmates and others in a dialog focusing on the book, its issues, and the questions it raises. Read…
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Podcast39: The Vocabulary of 21st Century Learning
Where have we been, where are we now, and where are we going with respect to teaching and learning in classrooms across the United States in the 21st Century? Do we want to just use technology to do traditional education more efficiently, or do we want to do education differently and better? In this presentation…
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Educational Equity blog
Angela Valenzuela is a professor at the University of Texas who is an outspoken critic of high stakes testing which leaves children in low SES settings, students from a particular ethnic group, critical thinking and/or good classroom instruction behind. I have received her email updates on issues relating to educational equity and school reform since…
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Blogger locking blogs
Blogger is locking some if its blog sites that are passing some sort of automated litmus test checking to see if the blog is being used as a “spam blog” being used to create link spam. One of the blogs I maintain for another podcast was locked today, this is the message that was presented:…
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iChat with Room 208 Scholars
Today in the workshop I facilitated for 22 teachers in Miami, Texas, we had a short, interactive videoconference with the 3rd and 4th grade scholars in Bob Sprankle’s Room 208 classroom in Wells, Maine. The principal of Miami School told the Maine students a little about the Miami school and community, and the Room208 students…