The Future of Blogs

That’s the title of one of four, count ‘em, four different presentations I’ll be giving at MACUL on Friday. (How I got talked into that I’ll never know!) When I originally submitted the idea, I saw it as a way to show how blogs in schools were evolving and branching out, and to have a conversation on the ways in which they would continue to mature. And while I still see that being a part of it, I’m feeling like the bigger, and in some ways, more important discussion is what we need to do to insure that blogs in schools even have a future. I don’t mean that in a defeatist sense as I obviously believe these tools need to play an important part in our teaching and practice. I mean it in the “what are the obstacles and how do we overcome them” sense. So I’d like to start the presentation early here by looking at the most widely articulated impediments to adoption of the tools and offering some very thin, discussion starting ideas about how we might respond to them. This assumes, of course, that you believe (as I do) that these tools can make significant contributions to our practice and to our (and our students’) learning, that they in fact do have the potential to fundamentally improve what we do in the classroom. And, it assumes that we all have access.

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Alverno College named a top school of education

Alverno College named a top school of educationBy ERICA PEREZ
eperez@journalsentinel.comPosted: Dec. 3, 2007

The George Lucas Educational Foundation's magazine, Edutopia, has named Alverno College one of the nation's 10 leading schools of education, citing the school's success with nontraditional students and its personalized approach to learning.

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Young entrepreneur takes panes to excel

Young entrepreneur takes panes to excel Window washer's tool idea is contest entryBy KATHLEEN GALLAGHER
kgallagher@journalsentinel.comPosted: April 30, 2008

College student Jordan Leahy is already doing well in his part-time window washing business.

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Off to TCEA

Well, we spent time today reconstructing our blog after an attack by a Russian spamer. It’s back up and hopefully a bit more protected now.

Tomorrow I’m off to Austin, Texas for Texas Computer Education

Association (TCEA) conference. I have meetings set up and have some sessions marked off to attend. There has been some talk of a Twitter Meet-up (a tweet-up?) at the Hilton lobby bar at 5PM on Wednesday. I’m not sure how to find anyone since all I know of most Twitter-friends is a teeny tiny picture that shows up next to their names!

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