Thursday was the inaugural episode of 4 Guys Talking, a new podcast series from CASTLE. The podcast consists of me, Jon Becker, David Quinn, and Jayson Richardson talking about a variety […]
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n This is Minnie, our Dell Inspiron 910 Mini “netbook” that’s the newest addition to our computer family. As the pictures show, she’s a lot smaller than my ThinkPad X61 Tablet. […]
Over at the On Our Minds @ Scholastic blog, Tyler Reed is pondering the recent announcement by the Lamar (MS) County School District that it will prohibit teachers from communicating […]
Random musings. Half-finished (and quite possibly half-baked) thoughts. Things that have caught my eye… Helpful school guidelines Ewan McIntosh kindly shares East Lothian’s self-publishing and social media guidelines for students […]
I can’t attend Educon this year. Snow in Philadelphia has canceled school today so they’re moving to Plan B. I thought I’d share some questions for attendees to ponder as […]
I just had a chance to view the upcoming Nintendo 3DS portable gaming console operating with autostereoscopic technology, which is 3D without the glasses. This is truly the beginning of a […]
The Strange Death of Radical Journalism And so to another inconvenient truth that should trouble anyone interested in the clash of ideas, real passion in journalism, polemic and a radicalism […]
It looks like Samsung is opening up its R&D process to outsiders. (Hat tip: Chris F. Masse of the Midas Oracle) The new Pitch Your Ideas site from Samsung encourages […]
n nWhen I first heard that Hewlett-Packard was launching a $300 million campaign called Print 2.0, my first reaction was a bit of skepticism. However, it looks like HP has […]
New York Times R&D; Group: Moving the news into your living room from Nieman Journalism Lab on Vimeo. In a push to regain favor with advertisers and Wall Street analysts, […]
On the Internet, we write ourselves into existence. That’s a wonderful thing. It allows us to reach audiences that we otherwise wouldn’t reach. It allows us to try on personas – […]
The elementary principals here are collectively rearranging their schools’ schedules to create a unified literacy block every morning and greater opportunity for teachers to have common planning time. In order […]
Here are the rest of my notes from ISTE’s annual digital equity summit at NECC… Discussions Wyatt Sledge, Forth Worth (TX) ISD, told me that the district just hired a […]
“…Should I stay or should I go now?If I go there will be troubleAn if I stay there will be double…” The Clash (1982) […]
Mobile-phone companies across Africa are drawing battle lines to capture the rising middle-class consumer. But in Kenya, the war already is well under way.
Media and technology companies cozied up to each other at the Consumer Electronics Show this week, touting their collaborations on stage and flaunting their friendships.
Clay Shirky says that social media’s real potential lies in supporting civil society and the public sphere—which will produce change over years and decades, not weeks or months.
Three months after popular protests began in earnest, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Salih continues to cling to power. His military has split. Powerful tribal shaykhs have deserted him and protesters […]
nHere are my notes from Alan November’s keynote today at ITEC 2008 in Des Moines. ITEC is Iowa’s statewide educational technology conference so it’s always a good time. I actually […]
The recent skirmish between Apple and Google — filled with legal inuendos, regulatory scuffles and high-profile departures — has, if anything, crystallized for me what I had been thinking for […]
In a format reminiscent of PechaKucha 20 x 20 (20 PowerPoint slides in 20 minutes or less) events, Saatchi & Saatchi asked 7 of the world’s leading creative thinkers in […]
Net neutrality is the most important free speech issue of our time, says U.S. Sen. Al Franken, but regulations to be discussed today are badly flawed, he claims.
I’m reading a fantastic book right now: Futurecast, by Robert Shapiro. In the section on globalization, Shapiro notes that the first waves of globalization primarily affected manufacturing. Millions of American […]
Some of you may have noticed that I have two online courses coming up this fall. Here’s what I’m thinking… I’ve been reading Jeff Jarvis’ superb book, What Would Google […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] India’s quest to create a $10 laptop is getting a lot of press this week. Fast Company notes that the proposed design will have 2 […]
n [Download this file: pngpptpptx] n Imagine that, day after day, all you have to eat and drink are bread and water. When that’s all that you’ve ever had, it tastes […]
I received the e-mail below from yet another person who can’t access my blog at school . How is CASTLE supposed to help school administrators kickstart their schools into the […]
Forget that old tagline about the Internet being an information “superhighway”. The online world is an information battlefield with pranksters and pragmatists struggling to be heard.
One of the true joys of the internet is that you can do pretty much anything (even blog) from the comfort of your own bedroom (maybe even in your pajamas). […]
For years, researchers have known about the existence of Junk DNA – long sequences of DNA for which no known purpose or function has been identified. In some cases, this […]