Monthly Archives: January 2008

Tech and Learning Conferences

Save these dates for upcoming conferences: February 2–5, 2008, National Conference on Accelerating Learning, Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida Check out their suggestions for funding to attend. What a great title for the conference. February 4-8, 2008, Texas Computer … Continue reading

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Florida Adopted K-3 Online Supplementary Reading Program

Meris Stansbury reports that Florida education officials adopted FreeReading.net on its short list of K-3 supplemental reading programs that schools may use state instructional money to purchase for the 2008-09 school year. Educators are invited to participate in discussion boards; … Continue reading

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Questions for Educators in Ubiquitous Exponential Changing Times

Monday, January 28, begins Educause Learning Initiative 2008 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX. Conference planners accept that We live in exponential times: 2.7 billion searches are performed on Google each month. The number of text messages sent and received … Continue reading

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Keynote Address: Tablet PCs Open an EMMIL

I recently learned of someone seeking a keynote speaker for an important technology in education conference. I subsequently began thinking about what I’d like to hear that speaker say. First, I thought of the many educators I know who have … Continue reading

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Reading to Mom as She Recites from Past Memorizations

Granny J offered on january 15, 2008, that she reads to her mother and her mother recites portions of what she had memorized previously. For the past couple of years, as Mom’s short-term memory has slowly eroded, I’ve found that … Continue reading

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Photos of 2008 CES Tablet PC Gathering

Loren, the Incremental Blogger, posted photos of the 2008 CES Tablet PC Community Gathering. That’s the fifth such CES gathering. About 100 people attended, including teachers! I’ll post more about this later. Thanks, Loren, for capturing the excitement of those … Continue reading

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2008 Tablet PC Academy

Rob Mancabelli, Director of Information Systems at Hunterdon Central School District, Flemington, New Jersey, invites teachers to consider attending their 2008 Tablet PC Academy, July 15-17 and July 22-24. Rob said in an email, Our teachers began using tablet PCs … Continue reading

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Call for Fordham Scholar Grants

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute is launching a new grant program called Fordham Scholars. (The program) … aims to fund junior researchers working on key issues in American K-12 education. The foundation will award three to five grants ranging from … Continue reading

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Family Holiday Mobiles

During the holidays, I counted the following mobile communication units in our house and cars. What a great time we had with them; yes, someone in the family owns one or more of each of them. As usual, owners ranged … Continue reading

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Empower Each Child to Take Responsibility

Learner-centred teaching and use of interactive materialsand processes empower each child to take responsibilityfor his/her learning and to become an autonomous butactive partner in the learning process. Enhancing learningthrough such an approach has to be viewed from a rights basedperspective, … Continue reading

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