Here’s another envisioning of the forms that traditional print publications are going to take as tablet eReaders and computers become more prevalent. This one is from Penguin Books and shows what […]
The Ames (IA) Community School District – my kids’ district – is hiring both a new superintendent and a new high school principal for next year. Below is the letter […]
It’s spring training for Major League Baseball and that means it’s time for another season of edublogger fantasy baseball!n
Yesterday was the TEDxNYED event in New York City. Many of us watched the LiveStream online. Last week was the TEDxASB event in Mumbai, India. I had the pleasure of […]
For those of you who are interested, here is the Flickr photo set for ASB Unplugged, a February 1:1 laptop conference for international schools that was sponsored by the American School […]
Rethink Learning Now asks: Why don’t schools with the biggest challenges have access to the biggest talent? Answer My answer: Because as educational systems we allow individual teacher preferences and/or union seniority […]
I got an e-mail from the folks at 60second Recap about their service. They use video trailers to summarize – and/or interest students in – great works of literature. Check out the […]
I just returned from ASB Unplugged, a 1:1 school laptop conference hosted by the American School of Bombay in Mumbai, India. If you can imagine nearly 300 educators from international […]
Ordinarily we bloggers don’t repost someone else’s entire blog post. But I just had to for this recent post by Seth Godin, It’s easier to teach compliance than initiative. Read […]
Iowa State University held its second annual ComETS symposium a couple of weeks ago. Faculty, professional staff, and a few outside folks gathered together to talk about technology integration and implementation […]
Just a quick post to note that registration for our Iowa 1:1 Institute (I11I) on April 7 is now closed. We hit our mark of 500 attendees last week despite […]
[This is the text of an e-mail I just sent the 7 board members for the Orange County (FL) Public Schools.] Dear OCPS School Board members, Greetings from the freezing state […]
Continuing the conversation from yesterday when I asked “What’s WRONG with the edublogosphere?“, today I invite you to share what you think is RIGHT in our not-so-little edublogger world. […]
Darren Rowse had a brilliant idea to ask, “What’s wrong with blogging?” I think we should ask this about the edublogosphere as well. So… What’s wrong with edublogging? (or, if […]
Sports Illlustrated offered its thoughts on what an electronic version of the magazine might look like. Now Wired has done the same. As the iPad and other similar devices permeate […]
In October 2007 I wrote: n n [M]any administrators dispense with students’ 4th Amendment rights in the name of ‘safety.’ They know what the law says, but community pressures or […]
The ISTE SIGAdmin just asked its membership two questions. Here are my answers… 1. How has the Internet changed thinking? The Internet has allowed distributed thinking (and thus learning) to […]
Just a few weeks after publicizing our first-ever Iowa 1:1 Institute (I11I), we already have over 300 people who have registered to attend on April 7. Our registration is capped at 500, so […]
I am extremely pleased that Iowa State University approved my request to take my first-ever sabbatical this fall semester. I will be spending the bulk of my time away working […]
As part of our never-ending quest to tap into the potential of social media to enhance the practice of school administrators (and the university programs that prepare them), I am pleased […]
