Email or billboard

A few more thoughts … and questions … on Educating the fear out of them – helping teachers, administrators, parents, board members, and politicians (all the decision makers and change agents) learn accurate information about the use of educational technologies in our schools.
Are you an email or a billboard? (Credit to Gary Bowman, 1999)
Who can [...]

Educate the fear right out of them!

Lucy Gray started a Google Wave discussion focused on blocking and filtering. Several of us added our comments and mine paralleled what I  talked about in a recent blog post, Don’t know? Just say “No!” There was a sense of gestalt about this new conversation – it seems that many times different people, in different [...]

How’s your comfort zone?

Continual growth and pushing out the walls of my comfort zone is part of my personality … well, most of the time. Maybe it was because we moved around a lot when I was a kid. Maybe because I was an athlete from a young age and programmed to always push for improvement. It was [...]

Don’t know? Just say, “No!”

There seems to be a pervasive attitude in tech support circles … among administrators … indeed, the human condition. If we don’t know about something – have never thought about the concept – don’t want to change … we just say

I hear about this happening in many K-12 schools (and some community colleges) when it [...]

So many presos …

If all my proposals are accepted I’ll be presenting 6 times between November and June. That doesn’t even include all the little side presos I do here at ISU and the locals schools and organizations.
Am I crazy?
Well maybe, but I’d like to share about the backchanneling study (with Sharon Peters‘), about what over 900 educators [...]

When you don’t read the directions …

In the midst of trying to meet a deadline for our backchanneling article, Sharon Peters and I had put together over 9000 words, thinking that we had an extra 1000 words to play with. Then I talked with one of my ISU colleagues who had submitted her article to the same publication. She was so [...]