I keep several blogs in addition to this one.  One of them serves as the reflexive journal for my research project.  Since I wanted choices about privacy and sharing, I went with Live Journal.  I have been using it for the past year and am happy with it.  My only friend is my advisor because […]

continue reading.....

So, I can’t get that image from my mind.  I listened to most of Tom Brokaw’s book about the sixties and he conveyed the sense of the world changing, of new freedom and power for people who hadn’t had them before.  Is that what the snow day video is all about: young people asserting new […]

continue reading.....

I am doing a presentation on this topic at EdTech 2008. I’ve spent a lot of time considering 21st century skills but haven’t ever formally organized on the topic. So here’s some stream of conscious thinking: sort of what popped into my mind first.
Defining The Subject
I got it wrong (as usual). I […]

continue reading.....

Students Call Officials’ Homes When School Isn’t Called Off For Snow - News- msnbc.com
So, the MSNBC story and it gives some better detail.  The most important piece, probably, that wasn’t covered in the AP story was that this wasn’t the first phone call:
But recently, this role has resulted in dozens of phone calls to his […]

continue reading.....

From a colleague of mine as part of a discussion of protecting privacy:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIGtf_ula8k&rel=1]
Sorry, if you’re offended that I embedded it, but you need the effect before the story. Here’s the AP version. And, here’s Doug Feaver’s take on it at the Washington Post. Feaver reviews comments from readers on the story. He […]

continue reading.....

May Heath Ledger rest in peace.   Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.
I think I heard about the death of Heath Ledger on the news last evening.  Now, this evening, Larry King is covering it on CNN, and the correspondents keep condemning the blogs for spreading bad information.  After hearing it […]

continue reading.....

I should be doing a workshop this morning.  But the snow storm that blew through last night led us to cancel it.  So, I started the day without a to do list.  OK, that’s not completely true…I use Remember the Milk in conjunction with Google Calendar so I always have a list going.  But, as […]

continue reading.....

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

continue reading.....

Has it really been more than a month since I posted?  December is something of a blur for me…more lit review drafts, extensive travel, and even some holiday reverie.  I have started drafting the course I wrote about in my last post.  You can check it out here.

continue reading.....