John Seely Brown Interview by Steve Hargadon

If you haven’t checked out the School 2.0 interview series that Steve Hargadon had been doing, you’re missing out.
This interview with John Seely Brown challenges my thoughts about education and gave me wonderful ideas on how to begin to explain the shift to my colleagues. This one is getting burnt to CDs and [...]

Questions about Basic Technology Skills - Part II

Thanks, Nancy and David for stretching my thinking about this professional development day.

I’m struggling with appropriate administrative pressure and my department’s buy in to provide basics training to faculty. I have been re-tooling our sessions to allow for better technological solutions for everyday problems. For example, “Appropriate Presentations” would include a discussion [...]

Questions about Basic Technology Skills

I have been thinking a lot about what basic technology skills faculty should know. We’ve surveyed our faculty on basic tech skills, and have a good idea of what people know and don’t know, but what Technology skills should they know?
The reason I ask this question is that we have half of [...]

The Read/Write Web: RSS, Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasting

1/15/07 Update:

What are they? How can I use them in my Classroom?

Here’s the outline of my NYSAIS Professional Development Seminar for Tuesday. Any comments would be appreciated. Bring Blue SnowBall, Get Richardson: Blogs, Wikis and Podcasting. Review last blogging outline:

Goal of Day: Exposure to RSS, Blogs, Poscasting, Social Bookmarking and
Wikis. The ability for participants to [...]

Young Readers…

Our Librarian just asked us for a picture of us as a kid and a book that we remember reading… I forwarded it to her, but thought it would be fun to share.
I remember lots of Dr. Seuss when I was a kid: Especially Yertle the Turtle.
Here’s my picture:

This is my dad [...]

Help ISTE Develop the Next Generation of NETS for Students

Just a forward that I thought the EdTech Community would appreciate:
Help ISTE Develop the Next Generation of NETS for Students
ISTE’s National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) were introduced
in 1998. Since then, the NETS have served as a common denominator for
effective technology integration in education throughout the country and
around the world. To keep the NETS relevant in [...]

Google Earth Meme…. started by Lucy Gray

Lucy Gray has started a Google Map Meme.
She asked us to answer the two questions below in a Google Earth Placemarker and then send her the file — she’s going to compile them into one big map…
1) What has been your most memorable learning experience?
2) Who is the teacher that has [...]

Faculty Survey Update…

Back in November, I posted about a basic skills survey for faculty. I received a number of surveys from folks on the ISED-L listserv and pulled them together into this survey.
The results have been interesting. Many of our faculty knew much of what is on the survey. The holes and [...]

New Years Resolutions…

1. Spend as much time with my family as possible. I learn from my wife and kids each day more than I could ever learn from any other group of people.
2. Keep blogging, webcasting, and reflect on my learning as much as possible. This reflective part of my life has become [...]