Thursday, January 19th, 2006
Paul Nelson is Technology Director at Riverdale High School in Portland, OR and co-creator of the K-12 Linux Terminal Server Project. K-12 LTSP is a really cool way to take older machines and breathe new life into them by connecting them to a powerful server that takes over the bulk ...
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
I meet with a bunch of other ed tech folks from the Twin Cities area once a month to share ideas and see demonstrations of various learning technologies. As I type this I'm sitting in a meeting with a representative from the Minnesota Dept. of Education who is giving all ...
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Monday, December 5th, 2005
I had the pleasure of presenting a full-day workshop on Saturday at the TIES Conference. The session, Introducing the Read-Write Web: Weblogs, Wikis, and RSS, has an accompanying wiki that we used to track questions and resources that were mentioned during the workshop. Feel free to check it out for ...
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
I popped over to the U. of Minnesota today for a teleconference about podcasting in the classroom. Long-time readers may recall that I posted last year about the U.'s UThink blogging system that provides a free blog for every student and staff member. They've upgraded the system to support podcasting ...
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Sunday, November 13th, 2005
I've created two wiki pages to collect input from folks who might (or might not) be interested in attending my sessions at the upcoming TIES Technology Conference. I could be wrong, but I think it's pretty cool to be able to have this kind of input before a conference session. ...
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Saturday, November 12th, 2005
The annual TIES Education Technology Conference is coming up December 3–6 in Minneapolis. I'm honored to be a "featured speaker" at this year's conference. I'll be presenting a pre-conference workshop on Saturday entitled "Introducing the Read-Write Web: Weblogs, Wikis, and RSS," a session on Monday called "Podcasting 101," and facilitating ...
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Saturday, September 24th, 2005
Miguel Guhlin responds to Tami's comment on my post about online testing in Minnesota and concludes that teachers must be the ones to transform teaching and learning. He says:
I'm tired of technology fads—and blogs, podcasts, wikis as tools to revolutionize teaching and learning are included in that—that claim they will ...
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Monday, September 5th, 2005
Wired is carrying a story about a wiki of sorts that is being used to convey information about conditions in the aftermath of Katrina. A couple programmers have taken the Google Maps API and built a Web page, Scipionus.com, that allows people to add markers to the maps of ...
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
It seems like "the long tail" is popping up everywhere these days so I guess this is a good time for a jargon watch post about it. The long tail literally refers to the general shape of a sloping probability function. Not surprisingly, the interesting part goes beyond the mathematical ...
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2005
I feel like reprising my first podcasting post from last October. Just when you thought you had podcasting figured out, along comes DTV from the Participatory Culture Foundation. DTV, an acronym I have yet to find defined anywhere but I suspect stands for "Distributed TV," is a system that mirrors ...
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Monday, August 8th, 2005
Rich Trouton has published his review of Apple's built-in Blojsom-based blog server. I'm planning to entice a teacher or two to give blogging a try this year using the blogging capabilities of our OS X server. I love the ability to control access to the blogs using the server's access control ...
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Monday, August 8th, 2005
Jimmy Wales (of Wikipedia fame) is doing a guest stint at lessig blog while Lawrence Lessig is away. He's making a top ten list of things that will be free someday and puts a free curriculum on the list at #2.
I'm not sure why there would be just one free ...
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