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If you can get there, you should go. It’s good. http://bit.ly/20VqKX

Sep 28th

Not this year. But it’s well worth the trip.

Sep 28th

Going to miss Educon this time around. But I’ll be in Philadelphia in November. Coincidence?...

Sep 28th

Twitter. Changing the face of education. Hardly. Meh.

Sep 28th

RT @kishizuka Checking out Twitter and Education: A proposed panel for LA #140conf...

Sep 28th

Run’s done.

Sep 28th

RT @smartinez nobody gives kids worksheets and says, “here’s a fun math game!” why...

Sep 28th

Ice cream run.

Sep 27th

Success. http://twitpic.com/jaema

Sep 27th

Lots of ice cream minded folk out tonight. On Twitter, too.

Sep 27th

On again at midnight on Channel 12 if you’re in the Denver area. I’m going to DVR.

Sep 27th

Excellent _Austin City Limits_ rerun tonight. Sufjan Stevens and Calexico. Nice. http://bit.ly/SGd9N

Sep 27th

Principal’s Office Art - Flagstaff Academy: Bud...

Sep 26th

The Textile Network

Sep 26th

Run’s done.

Sep 26th

RT @mguhlin Share your opinion re: Challenging Assertions http://ff.im/-8HoaY

Sep 26th

Bonus poem: “Miracles” by Walt Whitman. http://bit.ly/7VUy2

Sep 26th

By the way - if your projector ever explodes in the middle of a presentation, it’s handy to...

Sep 26th

Now learning from my dad’s trusted tech support guy. Love it.

Sep 26th

New blog post: The Textile Network http://bit.ly/vwGLp

Sep 26th

Spending the day today at Flagstaff Academy here in Longmont. Looking forward to learning lots....

Sep 26th

Finally getting to take a digital storytelling workshop from @milobo. Wow.

Sep 26th

Stories were made. Laughing also happened. Good stuff. http://drop.io/beyonddigitalstorytelling

Sep 26th

This is cool. Dean of School Culture here at Flagstaff. Runner. Big goal. http://puggerrunner.com/

Sep 26th

Interesting tool for looking at safe student online behavior. http://bit.ly/15Q2S9

Sep 26th

The real tragedy of the proliferation of student text messages is the loss of the art of note...

Sep 26th

Wow. Fun and educational day at Flagstaff. Reminds me of the importance of job embedded professional...

Sep 26th

“Cinderella” has been suggested as a possible baby name by Ani. She also gave us...

Sep 24th

I’m thinking “Blogger” isn’t bad, @garystager. But “wiki” would...

Sep 24th

Good grief. The naming floodgates have opened. All suggestions welcome.

Sep 24th

So. Sidewiki’s going to cause some trouble, huh?

Sep 24th

Math curriculum adoption meeting. Getting interesting.

Sep 24th

Rain tonight means there’ll be no deck staining tomorrow. Sadly, there’s still an...

Sep 23rd

#eci831 with guest Dr. Richard Schwier, intro to learning communities starting in 8 minutes, join us...

Sep 23rd

RT @alfiekohn From the archives: “Education’s Rotten Apples: …Bad Practices Can Undermine the Good”:...

Sep 23rd

Americans are reading more online but this is leading to the decline of American...

Sep 23rd

A retweet does not imply consent. Or does it?

Sep 23rd

Full page of retweets of this morning’s question. Which is, in and of itself, interesting.

Sep 23rd

I had filter blindness. Whoops. These things matter.

Sep 22nd

Just realized that, since we changed the filter, MySpace/Facebook fair game for digital footprint...

Sep 22nd

What do your technologies condition you to ignore or avoid thinking about?

Sep 22nd

The Week in Tweets for 2009-09-21

Sep 21st

In video conversion heck. I hate codecs. I really do.

Sep 21st

Downloading the iPhone SDK. While continuing to fight video. I have hope. Or a distraction. Either...

Sep 21st

Played with Dashcode last night. Functional mobile or non-mobile site built and running in about...

Sep 21st

Blueberry muffins. Then play time. Then football. Then video conversion. Again. One of these things...

Sep 21st

Information on improvised devices found and detonated in Firestone....

Sep 21st

More info about the “devices” in Frederick/Firestone. http://bit.ly/MIQC2

Sep 21st

.@coolcatteacher Why does your “right to parent” trump YouTube’s “right to...

Sep 21st

Learning this morning about iPhone app development. @milobo on my left. @scottelias on the right....

Sep 19th

Run’s done.

Sep 19th

My biggest beef with teaching of late is that we are constantly creating contrived situations to

Sep 19th

Today’s poem: “5 AM” by John Poch. http://poems.com/poem.php?date=14494

Sep 19th

Question - What does a mobile website made with Dashcode look like on a Blackberry?

Sep 19th

Or maybe read a little.

Sep 19th

For the next thirty minutes, I’m going to do nothing in particular. If I can last that long.

Sep 19th

Soccer time.

Sep 19th

Why are contrived lists such a dominant form? “Top Ten X” and “Five Best Y.”...

Sep 19th

The Day the Filters Came to School | Remote...

Sep 19th

Just attended a session from @milobo on “Info Ninjas.” Sweet.

Sep 18th

The best part about building capacity in others is that you begin to get to watch them do awesome...

Sep 18th

Pleased that @dmagy has a head for design.

Sep 18th

RT @doctorow Teaching kids online privacy with games: http://tinyurl.com/lvpvjg

Sep 18th

The phone. The phone is ringing.

Sep 17th

Uh oh. It’s ringing again.

Sep 17th

Yes. http://thegentlemen.tumblr.com/post/187973610

Sep 17th

I should sing my way through all my troubleshooting. “The network. The network is down.”...

Sep 17th

Okay. Flying into the coloring book was kind of cool. But how did the flamingo call for help?...

Sep 17th

I wonder what’s going to work this time.

Sep 17th

http://bit.ly/11xAOC District graduate’s response to a recent school event. Interesting.

Sep 17th

.@iMrsF It IS the traditional timeline. Only in reverse. I think it’d be more engaging and...

Sep 17th

Interesting publishing model. http://twitpic.com/i0288

Sep 17th

Is filling out a questionnaire an interview?

Sep 16th

I ask because I keep getting them in my email. Feels like I’m doing someone else’s...

Sep 16th

Aw, nuts. @milobo’s doing homework. No way I can keep up.

Sep 16th

So long as we make it a Big Deal, it’ll be a Big Deal. Even if it shouldn’t be.

Sep 16th

Today’s poem: “Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes....

Sep 16th

Later we should talk about how Instapaper makes for great portable reading and browsing.

Sep 16th

New blog post: For Vicki - An Expanded Tweet http://bit.ly/1uPfwT

Sep 16th

Started three blog posts tonightr. Finished the easy one. Sort of.

Sep 16th

Headed to soccer practice. Long day. Good day. Moving slower than I’d like to day. But moving...

Sep 16th

Spending the day mapping a long term tech professional development plan with @milobo.

Sep 16th

The Week in Tweets for 2009-09-14

Sep 15th

For Vicki – An Expanded Tweet

Sep 15th

Run’s done.

Sep 14th

Spending the morning with our elementary math curriculum adoption team and the afternoon with our...

Sep 14th

Very thoughtful dialogue from the math committee as they discuss current math program. Important...

Sep 14th

Taking the girls to the library because that’s what you do on rainy afternoons.

Sep 13th

Soccer game today will be the most stress or worry of the day. Which is fine by me.

Sep 13th

Wiki’s now running MediaWiki 1.5. Sweet.

Sep 13th

Too much censorship begins with well-intentioned people worrying about other people’s kids.

Sep 13th

Cooler. http://twitpic.com/hh6rk

Sep 13th

I really like this new branch. Lots. http://twitpic.com/hh827

Sep 13th

Cool. http://twitpic.com/hh6lg

Sep 13th

Tonight’s poem: “Litany” by Billy Collins. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/litany/

Sep 13th

A Week of Creation

Sep 12th

Trikes

Sep 12th

Glow

Sep 12th

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Sep 12th

RT @johncr8on Young people are not so fragile that they are incapable of listening, discussing,...

Sep 12th

You know what cold toast is? Stale bread.

Sep 12th

Tell your friends. http://www1.ncte.org/store/webseminars/130817.htm

Sep 12th

Is there a good resale market for slightly used interactive whiteboards?

Sep 12th

Today’s poem: “The Names” by Billy Collins. http://bit.ly/2bm2Yg

Sep 12th

Absurd wind interfered with this morning’s run, so I’m reading poetry instead.

Sep 12th

I dig very much that our superintendent’s admin asst’s cell phone rings to the sounds of...

Sep 12th

Some questions for a Friday evening. What minimum tech needs to be in every classroom?...

Sep 12th

Exciting end to the week. Possibilities abound.

Sep 12th

A week’s worth of work. Stuff Ani made. http://twitpic.com/hdzi8

Sep 12th

Pre-Cal 20S: Students Made This!

Sep 11th

Remembering that my blog is a record of my memories and ideas. And that I should look back and...

Sep 11th

Re-reading this. http://bit.ly/15m6gR

Sep 11th

Skipping the speech. Teagan and I are watching _Little Bear_ instead. A health care strategy of my...

Sep 11th

You might want to check this out tomorrow. http://bit.ly/mZCap

Sep 11th

That MST probably should’ve been MDT. But two hours from right now.

Sep 11th

9 am MST. http://bit.ly/mZCap Should be interesting.

Sep 11th

Up now: Google SketchUp Artist/Scientist/Geek Allison Floyd. http://bit.ly/mZCap

Sep 11th

The view from the front row. http://twitpic.com/h76vj

Sep 11th

RT @milobo Students live blogging this event this morning. Guest speakers from IBM, Google and UC...

Sep 11th

New Found Glory’s cover of “The King of Wishful Thinking” is pretty awesome. Just...

Sep 11th

Observation - Computer Science panel all describing the importance of creation and making things -...

Sep 11th

The front row student live bloggers. http://twitpic.com/h77pl

Sep 11th

Bravo, _Pretty Woman_ soundtrack folk. Well done. (Why do I have that information trapped in my...

Sep 11th

Building a broadcast studio. On my computer. I love the Internet.

Sep 9th

This seems to be an educationally important use of a tool like Facebook, @ddraper....

Sep 9th

Building my slide deck for this: http://www1.ncte.org/store/webseminars/130817.htm

Sep 9th

RT @KyleneBeers Polling ELA teachers on how they MOST OFTEN teach novels—Please take poll and...

Sep 9th

I’m enjoying this conversation. http://bit.ly/2Y7erL

Sep 9th

Warm banana bread and soccer practice are not bad ways to begin this evening.

Sep 9th

One student in my district responds to not seeing the speech http://genghiskhanir.blogspot.com/

Sep 9th

Seeing lots of this around. http://twitpic.com/gzrw4

Sep 9th

Run’s done. Here comes Wednesday.

Sep 9th

Taking a break. Going to check on Teagan. Then read. Then sleep. Then run. Okay. It’s a...

Sep 9th

Irony. http://bit.ly/RfMAP

Sep 9th

Solution: Pictures of websites make for fine slides.

Sep 9th

Fingers crossed that Teagan isn’t actually sick. Just very, very tired.

Sep 9th

I think in websites. Not slides.

Sep 9th

The Filter. For the Moment.

Sep 9th

The President’s Remarks to Students – 2009

Sep 9th

RSSCloud plugin installed and running in about two minutes. Nice.

Sep 8th

RSSCLoud plugin for Wordpress. Sweet. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rsscloud/download/

Sep 8th

New blog post: The Filter. For the Moment. http://bit.ly/2ah8lI

Sep 8th

Trying to write the filter post. Keeps turning snarky and cynical. Why is that?

Sep 8th

New blog post: The President’s Remarks to Students - 2009 http://bit.ly/av11L

Sep 8th

Boy I hope I got that out right.

Sep 8th

Going a little nuts with a visual aid. http://skitch.com/budtheteacher/b6mbb/triangles

Sep 8th

The Week in Tweets Ending 2009-09-07

Sep 7th

Of course you can’t make the old way work simply with the new tool. Takes thinking and...

Sep 7th

Balloon glow. http://twitpic.com/gnstn

Sep 7th

CU. CSU. First drive - touchdown, CSU. The right start. Go, Rams.

Sep 7th

Home. Random run in with @bhwilkoff at the Cherry Creek Mall. Now we both can vouch that the other...

Sep 7th

Touchdown Rams. Go, Rams. 14-0. Sweet.

Sep 7th

Rams win. Go, Rams.

Sep 7th

20,000 Volumes. 18 e-Readers. (Only 18?)

Sep 6th

What Happens to a Thought Tweeted?

Sep 6th

Equal Time & Opting Out

Sep 6th

Thanks for all the Skype responses - went with a solution that many of you have been using for years...

Sep 6th

RT @doctorow Locus column on the cheap rhetorical trick used to discount open publishing success:...

Sep 6th

Thanks, too, for confirming my hunches about Channel One.

Sep 6th

Early morning. Off to see some hot air balloons.

Sep 6th

In Monument for the weekend. Visiting in-laws and going to a big hot air balloon show.

Sep 6th

Thinking it’s time for a Twitter break. So I’m taking one.

Sep 6th

More balloons. http://twitpic.com/gk9ln

Sep 6th

All balloons grounded. Sigh. http://twitpic.com/gk96e

Sep 6th

So many balloons. So little flying. http://twitpic.com/gk9ai

Sep 6th

New blog post: Equal Time & Opting Out http://bit.ly/wUo2u

Sep 6th

New blog post: What Happens to a Thought Tweeted? http://bit.ly/A0DU5

Sep 6th

New blog post: 20,000 Volumes. 18 e-Readers. (Only 18?) http://bit.ly/13OZQ1

Sep 6th

Yes. Play more. http://bit.ly/lOitQ

Sep 6th

RT @karlfisch 5th graders in my district are going to be live blogging the speech...

Sep 6th

I’m overdue to find a new process for recording Skype calls. Software suggestions?

Sep 4th

The President wants to talk to school children - and that’s turning into a big deal?

Sep 4th

Best part? Watching it outside. Beautiful night.

Sep 4th

Just saw _Into the Wild_. Loved the book. Movie better than I expected.

Sep 4th

Anyone finding value in Channel One right now? Being asked about it and I’m thinking...

Sep 4th

Pep rally? No problem interrupting class. President asks to speak to the kids? No way we’ll...

Sep 4th

How about civics class? Can our students opt out of that, too?

Sep 4th

Can our kids opt out of other building assemblies?

Sep 4th

RT @shareski If you’ve never heard Clarence Fisher, here’s your chance....

Sep 3rd

I’ll start today at Mead High and end the day at Niwot High. Meetings in between.

Sep 3rd

It’s the first district late start day of the school year, time for folks to dig in to big...

Sep 3rd

Run’s done. That was fun. One more until week four’s done.

Sep 3rd

Who’s blogging with 2nd graders? @lisahalpern and I would like to know. She’s going to...

Sep 3rd

At Niwot High School - first day of a new year of collegial thinking and learning.

Sep 3rd

So who are we racing, and why will we leave so many others behind? I guess it’s okay -...

Sep 3rd

One guy. Making things right. Good example for us all. http://www.denverpost.com/billjohnson

Sep 3rd

This study is important. Literacy is alive and well, despite protests that suggest otherwise....

Sep 3rd

Oh, no. _The ‘Burbs_ is on. Must. Stop. Watching.

Sep 3rd

Lots of great responses on the 2nd grade blogging question. Much appreciated - will get started...

Sep 3rd

I don’t like the phrase “low-hanging fruit.” In case you were wondering.

Sep 2nd

Punny group this evening. MENSA would be pleased.

Sep 2nd

Carved a smoked turkey AND made it to soccer practice. With, like, 30 seconds to spare. Word.

Sep 2nd

“Don’t use technology to solve social problems.” - Apple presenter. (He’s...

Sep 2nd

“There is no technical solution for crappy classroom management.” - Same dude. Smart...

Sep 2nd

Sitting in an Apple seminar on Mac Management - Best Practices. Thinking like a geek this morning.

Sep 2nd

RT @ijohnpederson Twitter and Facebook are revolutionizing how parents communicate with their kids....

Sep 2nd

Teagan has the swings to herself. She even pushed me for a change. http://twitpic.com/g5c3a

Sep 2nd