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 [...]

Survey Respondents’ Gender and Age

Thank you again to everyone who completed the survey and to those who shared the link with others around the world. The raw data shows some interesting results. I’ll give you a sneak peek at one today.
Now remember, my main purpose was to survey those people in the ed tech network – those using Twitter, [...]

The Amazing Network

We all hear about the power of the network … and this experience is proof of that power.
At 11:50 am (GMT -5; U.S. Central Time) on Tuesday, July 21, I launched a survey about online tools – I wanted to avoid the term Web 2.0 in order to broaden participants thinking. I sent it out [...]

Anyone can teach …

I was channel surfing the other day when I heard John McCain talking about his views on education:
We should also offer more choices to those who wish to become teachers. Many thousands of highly qualified men and women have great knowledge, wisdom, and experience to offer public school students. But a monopoly on teacher certification [...]

Joyce Valenza and the Super Heroes at BLC

Joyce Valenza just posted her man/woman-on-the-street … actually at the Building Learning Communities conference … interviews. She asked folks “Which super power would be most useful in your classroom?”
Here’s the video: http://tinyurl.com/5nxnup
I noticed a few themes – here are some of my thoughts – add yours too.
There was an overall dominance by the idea of [...]

NECC 2008 is just around the corner

Since it’s almost June, I’m getting more and more excited about the upcoming National Education Computer Conference (NECC) in San Antonio. Hundreds of presentations, thousands of participants, a host of vendors, and most importantly, many of my personal learning network friends. I keep contact with them through Twitter, Diigo and Facebook.
This picture is one example [...]