Jan 27th, 2009
This past weekend, I had a wonderful opportunity to lead a conversation/session at Educon 2.1. I had planned a 20-25 minute presentation to be followed by small-group and whole-group discussions. But, at the last minute, I decided to scrap the presentation part and let the folks in the room talk. At the wiki developed for [...]
Jan 16th, 2009
Cathy Nelson committed a (somewhat) random act of kindness by commenting on a recent post to let me know that my blog birthday had arrived. [NOTE: while the blog went public on Jan. 9, 2008; the first real substantive post was not until Jan. 16. So, I'm calling today my blog birthday.] Thanks Cathy; it’s [...]
Jan 13th, 2009
I’ve been tagged by Ryan Bretag for this meme, which I think is a nice idea. The meme, as described by Ryan: What 10 people would you want President Obama and Secratary of Education Arnie Duncan to engage with in a Meeting of the Minds focusing on the state of education, a vision for education [...]
Jan 9th, 2009
OK, folks, I need your help. Back in February 2008, my wife bought me a Slacker Portable Player for my birthday. It cost $250. Slacker had very recently released the player and I thought it was the perfect device for me since I don’t have many mp3′s, have very few CDs I’d want to rip, [...]
Jan 3rd, 2009
Remember those commercials? My muse for this post was a clever but meaningful post by Miguel Guhlin yesterday. In a small font at the end of the post, he links to a service called Newspaper Clipping Generator which allows you to create a reasonably authentic looking clipping of any newspaper article you wish to create. [...]