US ranks 18th in Education
Provocative video on education in the US. Discuss. Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure
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Fear 2.0: The Video
Read more: Fear 2.0: The VideoPlease consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure
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Fear 2.0: the list
Read more: Fear 2.0: the listHere’s the list of solutions to fear that was generated during our session. I’ll post our videos soon. How do you overcome fear? having the conversation pool your strengths accountability make mistakes new skills understand the problem how to get people to pay attention need a decision-making process make yourself aware of what’s out there…
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Hello from San Antonio
Read more: Hello from San AntonioI’m in San Antonio at the Educause Learning Institute annual conference. Highlights so far have been hanging out with some great and interesting people: Barbara G., Barbara S., Leslie, Martha, Brian Lamb, Alan Levine and more. I also saw Henry Jenkins and George Siemens give a couple of interesting talks. My impressions were that Jenkins…
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Ice Cream Rights
Read more: Ice Cream RightsDay 24: Ice Cream Rights Originally uploaded by lorda. Maybe we shouldn’t have given her that book on women’s rights. We got a full-blown protest, complete with marching and chanting. Of course, we said, “You go, Girl!” Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure
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Frontline Followup
Read more: Frontline FollowupFor those of you not following the comments to yesterday’s post, one of the teachers from the show, Steve Maher, has not only commented, but has a good post about some of the issues pertaining to technology and education specifically in response to a review in the Philadelphia Inquirer online. Even if the show wasn’t…
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Growing up Online: a Review
Read more: Growing up Online: a ReviewLast night, I watched Frontline’s Growing Up Online. It made some attempt to be balanced by having researchers make some positive comments about the Internet, but it only showed negative examples–a boy who commits suicide, a girl who finds forums for anorexics, another who posts risque pictures of herself, etc. I had to pause the…
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Martin Luther King Day
Read more: Martin Luther King DayI don’t remember exactly when I became fascinated with the Civil Rights movement. I grew up in the south just after the whole thing was “over”. My parents didn’t talk about it much even though they lived–both of them–in places where it directly affected them. I suspect that my mother didn’t want integration or equal…
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Well, I knew I was out there
Read more: Well, I knew I was out thereGot this via AAYOR Note that Hillary is near the bottom for me. I’ve always like Kucinich, but Biden? Gravel? Gravel’s kind of a nut. 89% Dennis Kucinich87% Mike Gravel81% Joe Biden80% Barack Obama79% Chris Dodd78% John Edwards73% Hillary Clinton73% Bill Richardson36% Rudy Giuliani30% Ron Paul29% John McCain22% Mitt Romney21% Mike Huckabee12% Tom Tancredo12% Fred…
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Random Tech Stuff I’ve heard about
Read more: Random Tech Stuff I’ve heard aboutApple has a new small computer You can rent movies via iTunes Microsoft products suck Scrabble makers want Scrabulous to be removed from Facebook Dragon Naturally Speaking comes out for the Mac Blackboard bought and emergency notification company YouTube is still huge I still can’t believe how much academics don’t know about technology Please consider…
