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Darren Drape is working on gathering some real world data about the number of students that currently have access to mobile devices like cell phones. He’s asking people to take a quick poll of their students to find out how many of them have such access, and then to report in the numbers. […]

Jeff Pulver blogged about how everything he needed to know, he learned in spite of his schooling. He claims that just about significant thing that he knows now, he taught himself. Then he asked his readers about their own experiences with education, formal vs self-taught.
“I am certain there was not a college program […]

Have you ever heard of Good Magazine? I haven’t but they have an impressive enough looking website, so they MUST be reputable, right?
I always keep an eye on Viral Video Chart to keep an eye on what the more popular videos are. A video released by Good Magazine is currently at the top […]

Now that the blog has been upgraded to the latest and greatest version of Wordpress, I’m trying out a few new looks for it. So if you only read the blog in your aggregator, do me a favor by clicking through and letting me know what you think.
Just about all of the […]

If you haven’t heard about the Encyclopedia of Life project, it’s time to learn more about it. It’s sort of like what you might get if Wikipedia were being overseen by the folks at Britannica. They’re going to try to catalogue every species on earth, a daunting task to say the least. […]

Going to be upgrading the blog and working on getting away from this theme. Wordpress just has way too many cool features that I can’t take advantage of because of this custom theme. Want to move to something that plays more nicely with widgets and all. So consider yourself warned, things may […]

I got an email today from Susan J GetGood letting me know about a photo contest going on. While I was happy that she mentioned it to me, her email signature really stood out.
This e-mail is [ ] private [x] bloggable/quotable [ ] please ask first
I love that and may have to […]

Copyscape is a search engine that attempts to help you find people who are stealing your content without permission. Put in your URL, and you can find people who might be republishing your sites content so you can sic the dogs on them I guess.
I tried it out for Teach42.com and it did find […]

Heh, for a while I was worried that he was going to turn out to be an Olympic athlete or a famous artist or something. Thankfully he’s already showing off some geeky tendencies.

And just because I can’t resist, here’s a few others!

I admit it. I’m slowly but surely getting hooked on Second Life. And the more I look into it, the more applications I see for education, and of course Discovery Education.
However, while looking for articles on building, skins and avatars, I came across an article entitled “The Skin You’re In“. […]

I’m not sure I understand this one, but I know cool when I see it.

Walk2Web allows you to ‘walk’ from website to website, through the links each site has. As you walk along, it will create visual connections between sites that have links in common.
What’s a little bit of a mystery to […]

Maybe I should start every work week with a video…
This one comes from Bobby Barrett of Cary Grove High School and Kyle Barrett from the University of Illinois. Bullying, be it in person or cyber, has affected us all. Kyle and Bobby have a powerful message to send to everyone about […]

Can you guess what’s on my mind in this podcast? That’s right, the two hottest buzzwords in the EdTech community right now. Twitter and Second Life. I’m about as bullish on Twitter as you can get, and I’m really starting to sink my teeth into SL now. On the verge of […]

Thanks to Jannita for the heads up…
I know, I know, I don’t use the waffle iron I already own much at all (or did we sell it at a garage sale?), but I can’t think of any geek that wouldn’t love to unwrap a keyboard waffle maker on Christmas morning!

Don’t forget to visit Gizmodo to […]

Thanks to Chris Craft for the Tweet alerting me to this.
Dan Meyer, a high school math teacher in Santa Cruz, has modestly shared a brilliant avenue for introducing graphing to high school students.
I went out and taped ten events. They were simple. I walked down two flights of stairs. I ran […]