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Update: I have done a followup podcast which includes all of the links below, and a few more to boot. You can check it out here.
Raise your hand if your school just has so much money that you just can’t spend it all! If your hand is up, you can just skip this […]

Heh, Allen Levine of CogDogBlog seems about a few steps away from becoming a full feldged podcaster. Just a few short months ago, he wrote up a great post about yawncasting as he called it. While I disagreed with some of the things he said, I did agree that it was a budding […]

D’arcy Norman has created a wiki page to store information about multiuser weblogs for institutions.
It’s a fantastic resource that’s only getting better. I just added a new column for Manila, since that’s what we’re using right now. HOwever, I gotta admit that it’s pretty darn cool that most of the packages […]

I’m not quite sure what to make of theGuru of the Obvious, but so far I’ve gotten a serious chuckle from his tone and attitude.
Personally, I don’t trust libraries and librarians. Their insistence on preserving and providing access to materials for free creeps me out. If there’s one thing I have learned in […]

Via NSBA’s Daily Weblog:
Cell phones in schools are becoming quite a hot topic. The general feeling seems to be that students can carry them around but that they really aren’t allowed to be used.
Since the events of 9/11, many schools have relaxed their policies to allow students to have them, but require the phones […]

I realized something today. Yesterday I had more free time that I would during a normal day, and yet I did not bother to blog about any of the things I found interesting. The same thing goes for the day before. Yes, I’m busy. Would you like me to rattle off […]

Busy show today. I’ve got a few new podcasts for you to check out. The great thing about the ‘casts I discuss today is that they are all written or performed by kids! I also discuss a new piece of podcatching software called Podcast Tuner for Mac OS X. It’s what […]

From cogdogblog: Podcaster Request: Feed With a Summary
Alan brings up a good suggestion to podcasters. He simply requests that we add a bit more of a description to our show notes so that the occasional listener can read a summary and decide whether they want to subscribe/listen or not. Nobody wants to waste […]

Another podcast in the books. In this show, the identify of the mysterious GCPS is finally revealed! Now that I think about it, I should have had a drumroll sound effect at the ready. Oh well, I’m not a huge fan of post production, so we’ll stick with what we have! […]

I’m sure that many of you have considered, “If I were a book, what book would I be?” Well, thank goodness technology brings us the answer! Found this one through HipTeacher, it’s a quiz to determine what book you are! So if you have a few minutes, check it out for yourself. […]

Heh, I read today that WordPress 1.5 had been released. It was getting some great reviews, and people seemed to be extremely impressed with the improvements. So I thought to myself, I should seriously consider upgrading! I went off to the web site and start reading the details for myself. The […]

Will has a nice article on Ed-Tech Insider about some fun tricks you can do with RSS. The list is simply growing larger and larger. I’ve been teaching a class that includes working with RSS and it simply amazes me how much you can do with it. Syndication is completely changing the […]

Edugadget, one of my favorite new Ed-Tech sites, tackled podcasting about 10 days ago (yes, I’m running a bit behind in my blogging). It has a very nice write up about the evolution of podcasting and some interesting thoughts about its future. However, the conclusion is summarized by the title, “Don’t worry about […]

Take a quick look at this post on Edublog Insights and tell me you don’t get chills. Can anyone deny how powerful it is to connect students and authors together for a shared educational experience? We just had the author Eric Kimmel come to our school. It was an incredible visit and […]

Don’t you hate when you spend a really long time typing up an amazing blog post that you’re really proud of and then you accidently click apple-w and the whole thing goes *poof*? Yeah, me too. Well, if it was worth typing once, it’s worth typing twice.
There’s a new article on eSchool News […]