http://weblogg-ed.com The Read/Write Web in the Classroom Tue, 13 May 2008 20:13:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So considering Mother's Day was a couple of days ago, it's not surprising that I've been thinking a fair amount about my own mom who died suddenly 27 years ago (has it been that long?) leaving me with a slew of unanswered questions about my family history, my young childhood, ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/my-blogging-legacy/ My last full day here in Australia before the long trip home tomorrow. I get my day back, but who knows how long it will be before I get my body clock back. Last summer it took almost two weeks for me to get straight. Tips anyone? (Be nice.) Haven't had ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/many-models/ Some random observations of my first few days in Oz: First, how is it Qantas can serve a free hot meal and free beverages on a 55 minute trip from Melbourne to Sydney when most US airlines I fly on can barely provide a cold, stale sandwich on a cross country ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/update-from-oz/ From the "Circling the Wagons Department" it seems the New York City Department of Education has laid down the law about employees referencing their blogs in their e-mail signatures. For some reason, letting others know that your are a blogger is highly problematic, and the city is providing disclaimer language ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/and-no-blog-tattoos-either/ Just wanted to point briefly to a new ethnographic study on young kids in online social environments that was released this week by Consumer Reports Web Watch and the Mediatech Foundation, which is the brainchild of my good friend Warren Buckleitner (and for which I serve, badly I might add, ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/study-young-kids-online/ Thanks to a short post from Lawrence Lessig (now on his regularly scheduled month long blog hiatus, btw) I'm using Apture for the first time to demo what I think is a powerful new potential for blogging. (Click on Lessig's name above to get a sense.) In an amazingly easy ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/amazing-add-on-for-blogs-apture/ This isn't news to many, but this morning, the band Nine Inch Nails released its newest collection of music this morning as a free download with a Creative Commons attribution, non-commercial, share alike license. I'm not sure how realistic the all free music model is, but I really hope the ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/get-your-nine-inch-nails-remix-on/ If I had wireless, I'd be Tweeting "On a Plane" for the next 22 hours or so. Heading to Australia for eight days of blogvangelizing in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Three conferences and a day at a school district. Should be fun, but I'm dreading getting on this 757 I'm ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/brisbane-bound/ Kind of spur of the moment I decided to UStream all of my presentations at MICCA in Baltimore, and in the midst of doing so noticed some cool upgrades, the best of which is the ability to "cohost." (Notice the little link in the bottom left of the picture.) This ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/ustream-fun/ So it's official. Clay Shirky is my new hero, right up there with Lessig in terms of spelling things out in ways that just make so much sense, and that actually cause butterflies in my stomach when my brain fully wraps around an idea and owns it. I loved his ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/waking-up-with-a-cognitive-surplus/ Still digging through my stack of reading that I neglected, and this Bob Herbert column from the Times last week bubbled up. An American kid drops out of high school every 26 seconds. That’s more than a million every year, a sign of big trouble for these largely clueless youngsters in ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/clueless-in-america/ From the "And These Teachers Got Hired How? Department" comes this downright scary quote in a Washington Post article on teachers with Facebook/MySpace sites: In some cases, teachers apparently didn't mind that their Web sites were raunchy and public -- at least until a reporter called. Alina Espinosa, a teacher at ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/teaching-googleableness-cont/ A couple of moments from my short hiatus have been occupying my thoughts the last few days. The first was the opportunity to listen to and later briefly meet Sir Ken Robinson at an arts conference I presented at in New Jersey two weeks ago. The other was listening to ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/control-vs-self-control/ So after a couple of weeks of info-learning fatigue, I'm feeling like I'm on the verge of crawling my way up out of the pit. Not sure I'm fully there yet, and the fact that I'm staring at one night at home in the next two weeks in the face ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/bloggingtweetingreading-funk-abatement/ Before I pull myself the last couple of steps up from my recent blogging funk, a quick item from the "Things I Wished I'd Known for the Last Two Years Department." My major, major, major frustration with Google Reader has always been what I thought was the inability for me ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/m-for-umunread/