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John Pederson shares that the man who took several girls hostage before killing one and commiting suicide, may have found them through MySpace. 
If you want to know where Tom Hoffman stands, I think the title of his response says it all.  An Axe in the Forehead of Blogging in Schools.
Unfortunately, I think he’s more […]

File this under ‘A little weird, but might be cool."  USBCell is a AA rechargeable battery, with a twist.  Just pop off the cab to reveal a USB plug inside.  Plug that sucker in and it will recharge via your computers USB port.
Pretty neat, but I’m not quite sure this one is going to take […]

Our first home video! He may not ‘do’ too much, but even seeing him yawn, laugh, kick his foot up to his head, before tucking his arms under his head and resting, is just magical considering the little guy is still inside the womb!
In his next YouTube video, he’s going to be showing what […]

Say hello to my unborn son! This new ultrasound technology is absolutely amazing. If you want to see more photos, check out the Flickr set. The movie will be posted as soon as I get it edited down.
One of those times when technology truly feels like magic…

Ok, I don’t mean to suggest that you should throw TV’s out hotel windows or ask your principal to have a bowl of M&M’s (minus the brown ones) waiting for you in the teachers lounge when you arrive at school.
What I mean is that most of you reading this blog know a heck of alot […]

Gotta give props to Tom. He has taken some of the most boring technology tips and made them electric. All it takes is dressing like a Ninja, throwing in some music, and then editing the heck out of it!
Taking a tip from AskANinja.com, Tom shares “How to change your computer password”, and “How […]

Personally, I’m a big fan of science fiction, but if you happen to be a ‘numbers’ person, or are looking for some math oriented fiction to integrate into your “Language Arts and Algebra” class, check out MathFiction. They have listed hundreds of books that feature or have significant references to mathematics.
They’re very […]

Miguel Guhlin has got a great post listing all sorts of Web 2.0 sites and software that you can use to create your own private Walled Garden
this info is useful if you want to create a “walled garden” of safe Web 2.0 tools you can use within your school’s intranet, or even Internet, but have […]

While it seems like this is really meant to be a site for keeping up with your enormous social calendar, it seems to me that this could be a nice free service for schools to take advantage of.
Pheeder is basically a free phone tree service.
Just call Pheeder, leave a message, hang up, and seconds later […]

Gotta love the new face of conferencing. Coming very soon, the K12 Online Conference!
As Bud the Teacher (one of the keynote speakers) shares:
Announcing the first annual “K12 Online 2006″ convention for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice. This year’s conference […]

One of the arguments against the use of Open Source software is the lack of documentation and support. Since nobody’s making a profit, there’s no way to get good technical support, right? Wrong.
While trying to figure out a problem that I’m having in a Moodle installation, I discovered that the tech support available […]

Read a post on TechCrunch about Google entering into the Office 2.0 realm, which I thought was notable, but hardly surprising. There was no mention at all though of something that’s much more significant in my opinion. When I followed the link through, I discovered that Google is also offering up their services […]

A few days ago, I posted about the new geotagging features in Flickr. Turns out, the feature has made quite a splash.
When we were doing our projections for how many photos Flickr members would geotag, we though that we’d hit Spiral Jetty a million in the first month, maybe even as fast as two […]

Will shared a great post yesterday about the changing definition of the word ‘expert’ and how collective intelligence fits into it all.
A book he is reading, Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins, uses the Survivor ’spoiler’ community as an example. I’ve been on these sites before, and I have to admit that it really […]