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A few weeks ago we decided to offer a technology ‘boot camp’ for administrators. CASTLE is working with the School Administrators of Iowa to make it happen. For those of you who […]
Check out this comment on Linda Fandel’s Des Moines Register blog today: “Ames’ Kellogg says she will play basketball at Minnesota”“Charles City’s Buss says he will play basketball at UNI” […]
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 […]
I walked out of a 2hour workshop last week. I actually really wanted to know the information that was to be presented, but the workshop facilitator did such a terrible […]
Registration for the 2009 CASTLE Summer Book Club closes this Wednesday at midnight. To date we have 159 participants, which blows the doors off of last year’s total of 125. […]
[Update: If you registered, please check your junk mail / spam folders. Many of you who thought you had not received an e-mail from me later found my message in there…] […]
Many bloggers don’t allow comments on old posts. After two weeks or 30 days or whatever, visitors lose their ability to leave comments. This is done mainly for spam protection, […]
Whew! It’s consumed a lot of my time the past week but I am pleased to say that the 2009 CASTLE Summer Book Club is off and running! [Okay, more […]
nThis is a quick round-up of what happened on the CASTLE blogs last week… n LeaderTalk n Sue King discussed her thoughts on wrapping up another school year. n Barbara […]
The 2009 Game Education Summit begins today in Pittsburgh. If you’re not attending, the keynote presentations will be streamed live and also will be available afterward. The summit looks awesome; […]
Yet another great TED presentation, this one by Clay Shirky: Shirky notes that we are living through “the largest increase in expressive capability in human history.” Wait, isn’t it a […]
Five online resources worth checking out… Alec Couros has asked his readers to recommend readings that will expand his Associate Dean’s “understanding of current changes regarding social networks, knowledge, and […]
Michael Port says… n n With small thinking, we cannot grow intellectually, spiritually, creatively, emotionally, financially. And when we cannot grow, society cannot grow. It cannot advance. It cannot […]
n Larry Ferlazzo has a fantastic post about the videos at TED Talks and a variety of supporting resources for teachers, presenters, etc. This is a must read! n In […]
Michael Port says… n n When we are thinking small, we crave preordained outcomes. We want to know what’s going to happen before we begin. Control is an illusion. The […]
Richard Longworth says… n n Most of [the] earlier outsourcing dealt with manufacturing and factory workers. . . . The newest wave is different. It’s white-collar outsourcing . . . […]
Richard Longworth says… n n State officials know perfectly well that globalization will swallow their traditional industries. But they’re stuck. Workers vote, and a voter who has just lost his […]
Richard Longworth says… n n Men and women who carried lunch pails and spent their days on assembly lines could earn good wages, own their own homes, feed their families, […]
Five online resources worth checking out… TIME has an excellent overview article on Twitter and how it just may change the way we live. The Des Moines Register profiled an […]
This is a quick round-up of what happened on the CASTLE blogs last week… Edjurist Scott Bauries discussed how the No Child Left Behind Act has introduced some new angles […]
Mark Ramsey notes that your web site / blog visitors ask two primary questions: Why should I come at all? Why should I come back? Whether you’re a corporation, government, […]
In my never-ending quest to wrap my head around workforce data despite no background or training whatsoever, I’ve been playing around with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) web site. […]
This is a quick round-up of what happened on the CASTLE blogs last week… LeaderTalk James Yap discussed how a highly-acclaimed deaf education program actually treats deafness as a pathology. […]
Five online resources worth checking out… “We need to be inspired. We need to be encouraged. We need to spend time doing things we love. We want to change the […]
We’re down to two weeks before the 2009 CASTLE Summer Book Club starts and we’ve got 81 participants signed up already. That’s great! We will be reading Why Don’t Students […]
Five online resources worth checking out… Shelly Blake-Pock takes on the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. Mashable highlights the top 7 Twitter tutorials on YouTube. America likes to foist its […]
Michael Port says… Revolution is about one person at a time experiencing their own personal empowerment against an existing, deficient (small thinking) system. (p. 13) We are the biggest obstacle […]
Back in February I noted that parents are using online tools to push back on their local school districts. Embodying the themes expressed in Clay Shirky’s excellent book, Here Comes […]
A two-part tale of higher education and online instruction… n “Students demand free beer too” n A May 29 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education reads as follows: n […]
This is a quick round-up of what happened on the CASTLE blogs last week… EdJurist Over at CASTLE’s education law blog, Justin Bathon noted that eventually we need to ‘get over’ […]