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Well, it's not every day that one gets within six feet of two presidents. Last Thursday, just as my colleague at ISU, Dr. John Nash, and I were walking out of […]
For those of you who are curious, here are the standings in our two edublogger fantasy baseball leagues at the All-Star break:
I was one of the faculty members interviewed by the Associated Press for an article on technology integration in higher education. I think the article came out pretty well. It's […]
I haven't had a contest all summer. I have some books to give away, so here's an easy one... Questions What's your funniest K-12 ed tech story, vignette, or anecdote? [please anonymize […]
Just a reminder that tomorrow is Leadership Day 2009 here at Dangerously Irrelevant! n You can see the posts from previous years at n n Leadership Day 2007 Summary n […]
For Leadership Day 2009, here are some key questions that I'd ask about the technology leadership function in any school district: n n Who is primary responsible for technology leadership in […]
For those of you who have asked, my Monday, June 29, afternoon presentation at NECC, Effective leadership in an era of disruptive innovation, is now available at ISTEVision: FYI, you also […]
Many of you have been participating in and/or following the conversations for this year's CASTLE Summer Book Club. I am pleased to announce that my interview today with Dr. Dan […]
I tweeted: And Barry Dahl replied: Barry's right and I'm wrong. I failed my own information literacy test. Why? Because even though I had access to (and linked to) the […]
I had a Twitter discussion the other night with Jim Twetten, who's the Assistant Director for Academic Technologies here at Iowa State University and also has quickly become one of my […]
A few days before NECC I was invited by a publicist to interview Julie Young, the Executive Director of the Florida Virtual School (FLVS), and also speak with the folks from […]
Did you miss the extravaganza this year? Wish you were at NECC 2009 but couldn't make it? Hate NECC and want to snipe from afar? Here are some resources that […]
Since the past two have been so successful, I am putting out a call for people to participate in Leadership Day 2009. As I said two years ago: n n […]
Count 'em: Four, yes four, CoverItLive sessions for Malcolm Gladwell's keynote at NECC 2009 in Washington, DC: n n Kristin Hokanson n ISTE Connects n TechChicks n TeachPaperless n n […]
The Internet's down here at NECC 2009. "Too many people it overloaded the system" has been the response. n WRONG ANSWER. The convention center knew 14,000 techies were coming. […]
Here are my notes from the National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators (NETS-A) Release Celebration here at NECC 2009 in Washington, DC. The new NETS-A are a big update from […]
I am by no means anti-corporation. And many companies have been very good to me and CASTLE. And I know they're an important part of the NECC convention each year. And […]
Thought I'd share some recent publicity that CASTLE and I have gotten. I've been sitting on some of these for a while and wanted to get them all out so […]
NECC '09 and Edubloggercon '09 are underway! We had a quick intro from Steve Hargadon, then broke into sessions. I stayed for Vicki Davis'Web 2.0 Smackdown. Here are the tools […]
The sign of a good unconference is when every session you attend goes over time, people don't want to leave, conversation pushes into the next scheduled session, etc. EVERY session I attended […]