Category: blogs
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Religion of Technology
This morning I listened to David Noble’s 1998 lecture on “The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention” at Seattle University. (Here is the direct mp3 link.) This book was published in 1999. Noble discusses some very ecclectic but engaging stuff probably of interest to anyone who has read Dan…
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Contentious school blog in Dallas area
The Sunday, December 4th Forth Worth/Dallas Star Telegram ran an article entitled, “Schools in quandary over bloggers,” which addresses issues that Miguel Guhlin has posted about along with others recently. I think following comment in the article by Mark Smith, executive director of secondary administration in Keller ISD, is on target. We really can’t discipline…
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$100 to talk to the world
Bud the Teacher reflected on the Worldbridges podcast for December 4th how amazing it is that by paying $100 (the webhosting cost for his blog, I think) he is able to regularly communicate with a global audience via his blog and podcast. I couldn’t agree more. Of course money is really not required at all…
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Kudos for Spam Karma
Spam Karma 2 is a fantastic, free plug-in for WordPress blogs that I cannot praise enough. Thank goodness I installed this at the time I setup my WordPress blog many months ago, it is amazing all the trash it has caught and kept out of my blog. The quantity of spam here does not rival…
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Blog Value
Some people have been researching the potential value of blogs in financial terms. According to the calculations embedded in this website tool, my blog is currently worth over 20K: My blog is worth $20,323.44.How much is your blog worth? The value of respected blogs certainly seems like to grow in the months and years to…
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Blogs & RSS: Tapping into the global conversation
David Warlick has posted audio from his TechForum presentation last week on “Blogs & RSS: Tapping into the global conversation” in three parts (part 1 – part 2 – part 3) Yet another example of blogging the conference! 🙂 David’s exhortation to educators to challenge students to “prove the authority” of content on the Internet…
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A new digital divide?
Steve Dembo, author of the Teach42 blog, has a thoughtful post today on how many new innovations have come out in the last 90 days— and how he is struggling to catch up. I posted the following on his blog as a comment, and am re-posting it here. The first paragraph is in reference to…
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MySpace and iSafety
Will Richardson is right on in his analysis that educators and schools have a responsibility to help prepare students for Internet access in a non-filtered world. I am not saying schools should not filter content at schools (of course they are required by US law to do so) but I do agree with the following:…
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Photos from TechForum, Linking Out
Miguel Guhlin has posted several photos from TechForum in Austin today to his blog, along with some commentary. I am in the process of compressing audio from 3 of the TechForum sessions I attended and obtained permission to rebroadcast as podcasts right now, hopefully David Warlick and Miguel will be able to do the same…
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Free WordPress blogs for education
Edublogs.org has defined its free blogging services as being for “education professionals,” and setup Learnerblogs.org for free K-12 student blogs and Uniblogs.org for free university student blogs. The great thing about all these free blogging services is that they use WordPress. For my winter term classes, I am probably going to have one use Blogger…