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Monthly Archives September 2004

Student Perspective

I received an email from a student that has started bothering me. The student is enrolled in a “technology for teachers” course at another institution that uses our book. The student seems to have been searching the Internet for resources associated with the book and located our personal development web site (we maintain a protected [...]

Posted 30 September 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Student Multimedia

When we write about integrating technology, we purposefully focus on local projects. We feel this brings a level of reality to our advocacy. It seems a bit unfair to collect cool ideas from many locations and give the impression that this body of work should be produced in any given school. Attempting to convince future [...]

Posted 30 September 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Carvin on Berners-Lee

An advantage of following a few blogs is that you have the opportunity to tap into what collection of people who are willing to scout out topics and events that are interesting. This is great as long as your personal interests overlap in some way with those who write the blogs. One blog I follow [...]

Posted 29 September 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

21st Century Literacies

Sara Armstrong and David Warlick offer an explanation of what educators mean when they suggest we need to help students develop 21st century skills. The thing I like about this article is that it provides some examples of technology tools that are appropriate to these skills and examples of how the tools would be applied.

Posted 25 September 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Beyond Boundaries Conference

Today and tomorrow, the University of North Dakota is serving as host to the Beyond Boundaries conference. This regional conference focuses on the various applications of technology in higher education. I tend to forget that educational technology involves more that instruction/learning and it is different attending meetings with CIOs, registrars, library staff, and university housing [...]

Posted 23 September 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Is the government keeping up?

One would think the National Center for Educational Statistics would be a good source for current information about technology use in K-12 education. Try a search at this site for “computer” or “technology” and the most recent studies are dated 2003 and are based on data collected in 2001. So much for “evidence based” decision [...]

Posted 19 September 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Cooperate vs. Collaborate

We are in the process of revising “Integrating Technology …” for the purpose of releasing the 5th edition. In preparation for the revision, a number of faculty members are contacted and paid to offer comments on our existing book. The idea is to use this input to guide our work. It is a great concept [...]

Posted 19 September 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °