Bud the Tumblr: Archive

Kindle for iPhone is both enticing and enjoyable. Now, Amazon, let Stanza read the file and...

Mar 4th

Yeah. I’m pretty sure that I don’t get Twitter, either. But I still dig it.

Mar 4th

Supervising a hybrid art/snack project.

Mar 3rd

Me? I sent it to my language arts coordinator and put it in my out of office message. And bugged...

Mar 3rd

Lots of great responses to “How are you sharing the Yancey piece?” Keep it up!

Mar 3rd

About JeopardyLabs

Mar 3rd

Quick check in with http://sesamestreet.com (It’s in Beta. Ahem) Melmo and Cookie are both...

Mar 3rd

Got the Yancey piece in my out of office e-mail. How are you sharing it? http://tinyurl.com/bn5x7e

Mar 3rd

(Although I think she’s already better - fingers crossed.)

Mar 3rd

Watching a little _Little Bear while Daddy does all the little bits of arranging to be out with a...

Mar 3rd

Looks like I’m staying home with Ani tomorrow. That’s kind of like a snow day....

Mar 3rd

Huh. _U.S. News & World Report_ is now a monthly print and a weekly digital magazine....

Mar 3rd

Seriously. This is March? What a beautiful day.

Mar 3rd

Hmm. No takers on the video blogging options? Self-hosted? Shared hosting? Bueller? Bueller? (Pretty...

Mar 3rd

Irony is asking a group to open up their resources and then being asked within 48 hours to create...

Mar 3rd

Suppose I’m going to start a videoblog. (I’m not.) And I want to host my own videos....

Mar 3rd

RT @DenverChannel: Former Rocky Mountain News editor, publisher John Temple says he’s leaving...

Mar 2nd

Q&A: What time is it in New York? Do you like camping? What do you do at school? How many kids...

Mar 2nd

A guest. http://twitpic.com/1sxb4

Mar 2nd

Watching one of our schools connecting to a school in NY. 2nd graders about to read some Dr. Seuss....

Mar 2nd

Bye, New York. See you next time!

Mar 2nd

Reading. Long Distance: Bud Huntbudtheteacher.com

Mar 2nd

Do schools need papers, or do students need places to be journalists? Hmm …

Mar 2nd

The current advisor of my high school newspaper is thinking about the place of journalism in schools...

Mar 2nd

Suppose you get lots of press releases and listserv announcements that you’d like to easily...

Mar 2nd

Oh, duh. Functionality’s built in.

Mar 2nd

RT @lawonga: @budtheteacher My 11 year old son was inspired to write a snow poem...

Mar 2nd

What is this “snow” stuff? Should hit 70 here today. Enjoy the snow day, tweets. Sneak...

Mar 2nd

That’s Her Camera Smile: Bud Huntbudtheteacher.com

Mar 2nd

Bye: Bud Huntbudtheteacher.com

Mar 2nd

Bye: Bud Huntbudtheteacher.com

Mar 2nd

On the Air: Bud Huntbudtheteacher.com

Mar 2nd

Bye, Digital Version: Bud Huntbudtheteacher.com

Mar 2nd

Coffee ??/365: Bud Huntbudtheteacher.com

Mar 2nd

Which Color Will What?: Bud Huntbudtheteacher.com

Mar 2nd

Been skimming the PBS special _The Supreme Court_. And reviewing _The West Wing_. Feeling all...

Mar 2nd

RT @garystager @willrich45Oh, really? I was sick of it in the 20th Century :-) PLN is the latest fad...

Mar 2nd

RT via @funnymonkey Or, install the feedapi, feedelement mapper, and imagefield modules?...

Mar 2nd

Exit strategy exercise #1. Let’s pretend that Flickr is going away at the end of the week....

Mar 1st

RT via @danmorris: Working on a “twitter” to be used through the Colorado Department of...

Mar 1st

We are running low on venison and cheese sausage. Crisis.

Mar 1st

RT via @Scobleizer: It’s a real bummer that Bluehost is kicking off Iranian bloggers:...

Feb 28th

“Daddy, can I have a drink?” “No.” “A balloon?”...

Feb 28th

Watching Ani play Hide & Seek with a new friend. She’s not at all bothered or distracted...

Feb 28th

Quick lunch and now back to the playplace. You know the rest.

Feb 28th

Mall. Playplace. Bedlam.

Feb 28th

I’ll Miss You, Rocky. Thanks for Everything.

Feb 28th

Cheese is melted. Yum.

Feb 28th

The grill is ready; coals are hot. Burgers to come. Yum.

Feb 28th

Simple syrup made. Limes to be sliced.

Feb 28th

I’ll Miss You, Rocky. Thanks for Everything.

Feb 28th

We have such crude tools to use to try to make the right things happen in classrooms.

Feb 28th

Administrators will need to be evaluated as well. Big deal, or big cloud of nothingness, I wonder.

Feb 27th

Anyone out there using Nettrekker? Why do we need to buy services like these? (We’ve switched...

Feb 27th

Going to focus first on standard 2 - designing digital learning environments and experiences. 1...

Feb 27th

CDE rep has announced that they’ll be adopting the ISTE NETS for Teachers for measuring...

Feb 27th

Any thoughts about Thinkfinity as a content provider?

Feb 27th

The normal allocation will continue after this year.

Feb 27th

EETT is one time money. Won’t be back again.

Feb 27th

EETT grants for Colorado for this year should be about double to triple that of last year’s.

Feb 27th

Memo from Commissioner of Education to the Joint Education Committee regarding stimulus $....

Feb 27th

95% of the folks protecting their updates on Twitter don’t really understand the idea of...

Feb 27th

The information coming to the states from the federal government regarding the stimulus is mixed and...

Feb 27th

He doesn’t see an application in the field for this money until after March, perhaps not until...

Feb 27th

Going to be busy at the DoE Ed Tech office. Lots of money coming in and several schedules to meet in...

Feb 27th

Recommendation from Dan Morris, CDE: Look to your ET/IL plan and identify greatest hardware and PD...

Feb 27th

Stimulus dollars must be tracked separately from normal expenditures, according to CDE...

Feb 27th

Stimulus dollars must be spent by September ‘10 or ‘11, depending on whom you ask or...

Feb 27th

There might be “significant increases” in the future to that allocation, though....

Feb 27th

http://cde-eti.pbwiki.com/tlf Colorado DOE Ed. Tech office’s website.

Feb 27th

Discussing RTI implementation around the state. Mixed. Tools might define our conversation, rather...

Feb 27th

Speaking of words, I would like for the word “rigor” to not appear in Colorado standards...

Feb 27th

Worth your time. And thinking. And action. Hmm … http://tinyurl.com/d56oeu

Feb 27th

Sending links to http://tinyurl.com/bn5x7e to standards revision committee members.

Feb 27th

A conversation perhaps you’d like to comment on. Particularly if you’re in Colorado....

Feb 27th

21 Century CO. http://tinyurl.com/bzp5hg

Feb 27th

Send it in the way that it’ll get read. That might mean printing it out....

Feb 27th

Whom should you be sending this to? http://tinyurl.com/bn5x7e Send it with a nice note.

Feb 27th

Just skimming - but there’s still lots of work to do here. http://tinyurl.com/dg683e

Feb 27th

Formal Standards Review process website. Minutes and Agendas. http://tinyurl.com/5jxqow

Feb 27th

At the TLF meeting. Brief presentation on what we’re doing on the web. Moodle and Wordpress....

Feb 27th

http://coloradostandardsreview.wetpaint.com/ Wiki for documentation of the Standards Review for...

Feb 27th

I’ve literally shed a tear or two this morning. Goodbye, #Rocky. You’ll be missed....

Feb 27th

The print version of the last #Rocky. http://twitpic.com/1q4y9

Feb 27th

Sigh. #Rocky http://twitpic.com/1q33f

Feb 27th

Channel 9 doing a morning news story on the #Rocky’s last issue that consists of them reading...

Feb 27th

It’s a perfect example of why we need strong print/online daily Journalism. TV, for the most...

Feb 27th

Just had dinner with a friend I’ve not seen in far too long due to us getting all grown up and...

Feb 27th

RT @MrChase: Lessig - what i find so crucial about remix is how hard it is, not how easy it is. I...

Feb 27th

This just tears me up. #Rocky

Feb 27th

Related: Who will look after 150 years of #Rocky archives, online and off? Important data.

Feb 27th

Any word on John Temple’s next job? He’s a shining star among editors/publishers. Great...

Feb 27th

Pulitzer said that newspapers should have no friends, but the #Rocky was my friend. Going to miss...

Feb 27th

Looks like Johnson’s going to the Post along with Littwin & Carroll. The Post just got...

Feb 27th

Wherever Bill Johnson ends up is my new paper. He’s been my writing teacher since high school....

Feb 27th

When policy A conflcts with procedure B, hilarity ensues. Not so much.

Feb 26th

Sad. http://tinyurl.com/az678b

Feb 26th

I’m kind of glad Gene Amole isn’t around to see the Rocky go. Kind of.

Feb 26th

Spending the day embedded at one of our elementary schools. Fun ahead.

Feb 26th

In the studio for the morning video announcements. There’ll be singing....

Feb 26th

RT via @snbeach: All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate. John...

Feb 26th

RT via @coloradogov: Div. of Wildlife - Complete On-Line Hunter Ed Course In Limon...

Feb 26th

RT via @alexragone: @PLPNetwork I’m hosting a PLP Fellow Tool Series: Twitter for Teachers...

Feb 26th

I’m not yet ready to give my blessing to Google/Moodle integration. Still have some...

Feb 26th

RT via @Deacs84: Check out http://gr8tweets.wikispaces.com and @datruss and @dkuropatwa blog posts

Feb 26th

Yum. “Chinese” food.

Feb 26th

I managed to do all of my computing today, save a quick Elluminate demonstration, from my iPhone....

Feb 26th

RT via @mcleod:Iowa’s considering allowing textbook money to be spent on electronic textbooks,...

Feb 25th

Late lunch car wash. http://twitpic.com/1ow0j

Feb 25th

At my 4th school of the day. Should make five if all goes according to plan. Not bad.

Feb 25th

Hey professional organizations, quit selling your webinars. Give them away.You’ll make it up...

Feb 25th

If you send me a PR that starts “Dear Vicki Davis,” don’t plan on me spending a...

Feb 25th

Got to pop into a high school classroom for a minute. Reading _Frankenstein_. Man I miss reading...

Feb 25th

The link to “Writing in the 21st Century” for those who’ve asked for it. Read and...

Feb 25th

Remember what I said about reading “Writing in the 21st Century”? @willrich45 says read...

Feb 25th

The Podcast: Worth Keeping

Feb 25th

Don’t forget. Read the Yancey. You promised.

Feb 25th

They did, in fact, lose sight of their principles.

Feb 25th

Today’s word of the day is “baiting.” http://definr.com/baiting

Feb 25th

Although his statement on the stimulus isn’t all off base.

Feb 25th

I’m not finding Gov. Jindal’s response useful. I do appreciate his statement on working...

Feb 25th

Um.

Feb 25th

Why do they even sit for these speeches. Would be faster if they just stayed standing.

Feb 25th

Podcast’s up. http://budtheteacher.com/blog

Feb 25th

The Podcast: Worth Keeping

Feb 25th

Ani: “Who’s the girl? Who’s the guy with the white hair?” Tough questions....

Feb 25th

Ani: “Obama’s telling us about the circus, right?” Um. Kind of?

Feb 25th

Ani: “Why’s President Obama talking to us?”

Feb 25th

Oops. A little mix up on the speaking order.

Feb 25th

Teagan and I are watching the President enter the room.

Feb 25th

According to NBC, Engle wasn’t the first person in the room. #priorities

Feb 25th

Rep. Elliott Engle. 8:30am seat in the chamber. Can’t say I understand that.

Feb 25th

Brian Williams says folks started taking seats at 8 this morning so they could get a bit of TV time....

Feb 25th

Okay. Watching Congressional and Stste Department tweets from the pre-speech is pretty cool. Good on...

Feb 25th

I need some committment, folks. Promise me you’ll read Yancey’s report. You can go to...

Feb 25th

Important. Better spoken, but I’m glad to have a copy of it. You read this, okay? Then...

Feb 25th

Kathleen Blake Yancey’s NCTE address on writing in the 21st Century has been released as a...

Feb 25th

I need a WP magazine-y theme that allows for author photos next to every story. Gravatars okay - but...

Feb 25th

Good catches on the superfluous apostrophe, tweets. Help yourself to all the free Google searches...

Feb 25th

Oh. Man. Punctuation fail in last tweet. First to find it gets a free Google search.

Feb 24th

Check out the “Our Buddy …” Voicethreads. Neat use of the tool. Very powerful for...

Feb 24th

I continue to be surprised at how many people are waiting to be led rather than seeking out a...

Feb 24th

I like this statement of purpose very much. Cool. http://www.publishspi.org/About.asp

Feb 24th

Social websites harm children's brains:...

Feb 24th

Save the date: February 20, 2010. Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation “Colorado Loves...

Feb 24th

For those of you who attended CoLearning (physical or virtual), the evaluation is online,...

Feb 24th

Just had a good conversation with @scottelias regarding soon to not be [Top Secret].

Feb 23rd