This blog has some strange characteristics. One seems to be that few follow this blog as a feed and a good deal of the traffic comes as a result of search. I guess I am not certain why this is the case. Perhaps this is because some of what I offer consists of tutorials. The [...]
Disclaimer: I do serve as a Psychology department chairperson. However, just to put my comments in perspective, I did start my academic life with a biology degree. In the following post I ask lots of questions. If the answers were obvious I would be watching the olympics rather than writing.
I seldom comment on general K12 [...]
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Posted 20 February 2010
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I reached a milestone this evening. My LastFm account reached 100,000 songs. LastFm is a social music site that keeps track of the music you play from your computer and your mobile devices. I started using this system in November, 2006, and tonight the number of songs this system has monitored hit 100,000.
The 100,000th song [...]
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Posted 17 February 2010
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I have my own social bookmarking site I have built from an early version of Scuttle. I liked Scuttle, but wanted a system that would prioritize links based on a system of use and rated value. More popular and valued links would appear at the top. As a bookmarking system grows and becomes complicated you [...]
I sometimes use a wiki in my graduate class. I call what I ask the students to do “public scholarship” – instead of developing content that only I will read, I require them to create products that will be available to other educators.
This semester I encountered a problem I think I understand but that has [...]
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Posted 12 February 2010
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We are pretty much stranded today because of heavy snow. The Super Bowl will occupy my time later this afternoon, but I took the time this morning to read the most recent Kaiser Foundation Generation M study. The national survey study has been conducted every 5 years to track media use among 8-18 year olds. [...]
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Posted 07 February 2010
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Topics I write about often seem to coalesce from active themes. I can kind of identify the sources for this post – iPad announcement, reaction to health care reform, and reading the first chapter of “Rethinking education in the age of technology”. The topic that emerged is – Time for subsidized wifi.
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1) From Collins and [...]
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