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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
These are my notes from the 3rd annual Constructivist Celebration, hosted by Gary Stager at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC. Gary Stager 150 participants here today See constructivistconsortium.org/books for constructivist teaching […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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; […]
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 […]
