I was reading an article about yet another school district banning yet another social technology this morning, as Hattiesburg has protected its citizens by banning student-teacher communication via text messaging or social networks. No need to bother wasting precious testing-time crafting creative applications of such tools in order to take advantage of their popularity in [...]
At the Decatur Jump! event last week and, for that matter, anytime I share with any group a sampling of Web 2.0 technologies, I reminded participants not to be overwhelmed, but to consider their own curriculum and their own students and to try to identify 2 or 3 tools which would be most beneficial to [...]
Thanks to John Pederson, again, for leading me to another great video (and to Scott McLeod for leading John to it!). This simple, black-and-white video paints a vivid, colorful portrait of the changing of society that is happening as a result of evolving technologies.
A couple of questions came to mind when viewing the video.
Has the [...]
Thanks to John Pederson for pointing me to this video. It paints a powerful picture of just what forms cyberbullying can take and the importance of addressing it in our families and our schools.
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Ewan McIntosh posted a link to a great list of The Top 100 Lamest Excuses for Not Innovating to his Del.icio.us account today. A few particularly relevant ones to those of us in education (some with commentary):
I don’t have the time.
I’ll be punished if I fail. (Education translation: If my kids fail I’ll be punished.)
My [...]
The school year will be drawing to a close on Thursday. As we meet as an Instructional Technology team tomorrow, I feel it is important to evaluate where we have been, where we are now, and where we hope to go in the future. The year began with high expectations for teacher learning, student learning, [...]
The K12 Online Conference 2008 has released its call for participation. This is a great event, particularly in that it opens the door to learning about Web 2.0 technologies in the classroom to a global audience, and it allows access to some incredible educators from the comfort of a participant’s office chair. Details are below.
We [...]
Sitting in a meeting at a north Texas school district today, and this is a list of some of the sites with blocked access that I encountered in a quick check:
Bloglines
Gmail
Twitter
Ning
Blogger
Wikispaces
PBWiki
WetPaint
YouTube
Flickr
Photobucket
Picnik
Scrapblog
Jott
Fleck
Trailfire
Skype
Flock
Slideshare
Polldaddy
Zamzar
Google Documents
Some categories that the offending sites fall into include messaging, personal pages, entertainment/recreation/hobbies, instant messaging, web phone, dating/social (for Flock?), shareware/freeware, and, my [...]
I just discovered this pic through StumbleUpon, a tool that is very useful and very addicting, and thought it was worth sharing. I’m not sure of the source, although the link is from a Ning site.
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One of the most frustrating things for me, as an Instructional Technology Specialist, is breaking down the barriers created by the present-day environment that places standardized testing ahead of so much of what the real-world actually demands. Skills such as problem-solving, collaborating, creativity, and the like are pushed aside, often only rearing their heads late [...]
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