Posted in Conferences, Education on Feb 29th, 2008 No Comments »
The Virginia Society for Technology in Education had their annual conference this past week on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. I was there for most all of it, and it was quite good. I remember my first VSTE Conference: I was blown away by the number of workshops offered, the “hands-on” sessions, [...]
Posted in Online Safety on Feb 19th, 2008 No Comments »
Nation & World | Internet-predator concerns overblown, researchers say | Seattle Times Newspaper
This is from the Seattle Times this morning. It piqued my interest, in part because I always had this gut sense that Date-Line NBC was getting it all wrong. Well, maybe not all, but enough that it was more of a distraction to [...]
Posted in Education on Feb 6th, 2008 1 Comment »
<via glass> This is from the design blog A Brief Message by Dan Saffer. The salient paragraph reads:
While certainly facts and basic grammar and math are important, so is the ability to put those pieces of information together into something that is more than the sum of its parts, which is exactly what designers do.
We [...]
Posted in Education on Feb 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
I meant to post on this earlier, but I didn’t get to it. Now I am. I watched the PBS Frontline show, “Growing Up Online” a couple of weeks back and was impressed. Frontline seems to always do such a good job of that “investigative” reporting stuff that I am reminded I must watch the [...]
