Category: globalvoices
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Our voices DO matter
I posted the following as a comment response to Andrew Pass, who was commenting on Angela Stevens’ post “Laptop Initiatives and Standardized Testing.” I feel strongly about this, so I’m reposting here with a few additional thoughts. The part of Andrew’s comment I responded to was: Perhaps educational bloggers haven’t discussed this topic [standards and…
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Sifry’s State of the Blogosphere
David Sifry, founder and CEO of Technorati, has published another “State of the Blogosphere,” updated for August 2006, and as you might guess the results are eye-opening. According to Sifry and Technorati, the blogosphere is 100 times bigger than it was just 3 years ago. This is exponential growth, folks. Amazing. So just how fast…
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Virtual Field Trip workshop
I am presenting a short workshop tomorrow on virtual field trips for teachers in Greenville School, which is located in Marietta, Oklahoma about 100 miles south of Oklahoma City. I have created a Virtual Field Trip workshop wiki that includes resources we’ll explore and discuss. As I was putting together this workshop curriculum, I realized…
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UN CyberSchoolBus and Infonation
I am a big advocate of helping students not only develop knowledge, motivations, and capacities related to local and national citizenship– but also global citizenship. Given this fact, it should not be surprising I was thrilled to discover the UN CyberSchoolBus website today. According to the site’s mission statement, the specific aims of the site…
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Guest blogging for Dean
I’m happy to have an opportunity to do some guest blogging for Dean Shareski the next few days as he takes a blog break. I’ll be posting a bit here during that time, but primarily over at his blog, “Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech.” I’ll be inviting reader thoughts and feedback perhaps more than…
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The present and future of leftist national politics
Today’s CNN article “Iran’s Ahmedinejad meets ‘brother’ Chavez” reveals interesting, international diplomatic friendships developing these days. I learned a bit about Hugo Chavez, the leftist President of Venezuela, in the April 2006 issue of National Geographic (“Venezuela According to Chavez”) and after talking with one of our professors in the Texas Tech College of Education…
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Seeing is Believing
Knowing Wes’ concern with human rights, I was interested in tieing together the concepts discussed in the documentary “Seeing is Believing“. The film addresses many of the ideas we discuss in the Read/Write Web; mainly the idea of placing the power of technology in the hands of the people. The focus here is on third…
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About being Canadian
In the same way I’m intrigued about what others say about me, I’m also interested in what others say about my country. I pay close attention to dicussions outlining the differences between Americans and Canadians. Mark has already mentioned my blog being blocked by his district and even during last week’s Skypecast it was pointed…
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Ethnic cleansing in Iraq
This headline from this evening breaks my heart: Gunmen roaming a Baghdad neighborhood on Sunday killed at least 42 unarmed Iraqis as soon as they identified them as Sunnis, emergency police said. Ala’a Makki, a spokesman for the Iraqi Islamic Party — Iraq’s main Sunni political movement — said the victims included women and children.…
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Podcast69: Walking on Fiber – An International Skypecast about NECC 2006
This evening I had the remarkable experience of talking with educators and several business people across the United States and across the planet in Australia via a free skypecast– discussing some of the ideas, technologies, and issues raised at NECC 2006 in San Diego this past week. We used the free Skypecasts web service, which…