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As I mentioned last week, each Friday I’m going to try to highlight a blog that I think deserves a bigger audience (DABA). The first recipient in 2008 of the […]
I just finished reading David Pogue ‘s fascinating article on the copyright morality of today’s youth (thanks for the link, Ian Jukes !). Here’s the key quote: Right now, the […]
I’ve blogged about this before: Key question The aggregate impact of individual choices If you took away technology but can anyone else think of an employment sector other than K-12 […]
I don’t often blog about specific technology tools, but I just ran across a service called Kwout (pronounced ‘quote’). It lets you quickly take a screen shot and then post […]
Clay Burell has done a masterful jobnof launching and publicizing Students 2.0,nthe new student group blog. It has been less than a month since the launchnof Students 2.0 and it […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] I talked my department chair into letting me do a 10–minute technology demonstration to my faculty colleagues at each of our monthly department meetings. My […]
I’m one of the lucky ones: my XO arrived in time for Christmas (thank you, Betsy!). I wish I knew to which country the other one went. For those of […]
There are a number of great sites that host how-to videos: SuTree, 5min, VideoJug, Expert Village, Vidipedia, and many more. Typically just a few minutes long, these types of videos […]
A while back, a video of Lauren Caitlin Upton’s (Miss South Carolina Teen USA) poor response to a geography question went viral (19 million views as of today; the 30th […]
Whenever I need an address or phone number, I turn to the Web. I realized the other day that I probably haven’t used a telephone directory printed on paper in […]
In what may be the best word play yet on the name of my blog, Tom Hoffman had issues with my previous post on GDP overachievers. Check out the conversation: […]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk]n Last month I blogged about the importance of first impressions.nIn other words, what do visitors see and hear when they first walk intonyour school organization? Is that […]
From Simon Evans: n n Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in a different time.  – Hebrew proverb n From Greg Farr: n […]
Yesterday Karl Fisch and I were e-mailed a link to a video from Shocking Economics. Although I’m neither a demographer nor an economist, the video got me thinking… (bear with […]
A middle school librarian in New Jersey has gotten some media attention for her anti-Wikipedia campaign: Linda O’Connor regards Wikipedia the same way former first lady Nancy Reagan campaigned against […]