It’s been a cloudy, cool start to the summer throughout much of the Northeast. So when I departed Boston for this year’s National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Washington D.C., I was ready to feel some heat. It was my fifth consecutive NECC and the 30th anniversary of the conference. NECC attracts around 20,000 educators [...]
Maybe. Not all technologies should be embraced by teachers with open arms. As an educator on the front lines of technology integration I keep my eyes open to the digital horizon. I’m interested in finding technologies that can actually make classroom life easier for teachers. Lately, the mass media has become [...]
“I wish my teacher knew that I don’t really understand what they are trying to teach me today.” How many of our students think these thoughts each day? Well, some very smart people in the physics department at M.I.T. decided the large lecture hall approach just wasn’t working for their university students. An article written [...]
What happens when Adobe Photoshop meets Web 2.0? Answer: Photoshop Express (psx). Two of the central tenets of Web 2.0 are an ability to move content to the web and then provide an easy mechanism to distribute the content to others. Psx is a free beta program that provides 2GBs of [...]
According to a new survey tool on the Pew Internet and American Life Project site, I’m now a certified member of the “connectors” group based on my question responses on technology use at home and for work. The survey took only four minutes to complete. If you spend a few minutes scanning my blog, it [...]
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