[This post has taken me a few days to write. I apologize for its length, and hope you'll read it to the end. When I started reading edublogs last December, Karl Fisch was my first. His Fischbowl frankly blew me away. I read it obsessively during my Winter Holiday vacation, started blogging my reactions to [...]

I’m catching up on comments that fell through the cracks a couple months back when I caught the bad end of some wicked mojo. I’d asked in a post for help with resources for Digital Storytelling, and “Nate Stearns,” for whom I searched on Technorati to no avail, posted this very valuable comment. So I’m [...]

newteachergeekday Patrick Higgins‘ wiki for new teachers introduces: Connective Writing Social Bookmarking Flat Classrooms “Ten Essential Tools for Educators” Resources A great professional develpment resource in the quest for classroom conversions.  - post by cburell Flixn.com | Video Everywhere Thanks to Patrick Higgins (who thanks Will Richardson) for this find:  this might be just the peer [...]

World Without Oil :: Document Your Life In The New Reality On online game meant to educate about the “habits of mind”–and action–needed to face the growing oil shortage as wisely as possible. – post by cburell Center for Media and Democracy – Publishers of PR Watch A media watchdog group, keeping an eye (especially) [...]

My last post failed to mention in its title that student reflections (only in response to the first of six questions) on the 1001 Flat World Tales flat classroom project were posted at the bottom. So now you know: they’re there. (Barbara, I’d promised this to you, and will post the rest–Hawaii’s and Seoul’s–within the [...]

Chris in Honolulu and I just finished a Skype conversation about improving the 1001 Flat World Tales flat classroom project for next year. We’re not finished with our talks, but one thing that came up, and warrants immediate public mention, is this: Our student reflections were overwhelmingly positive (and helpfully constructive when not), so we [...]

Real quick, I just thought I’d share one of my favorite factoids: the CIA bought the rights to Orwell’s Animal Farm from his wife shortly after Orwell died. And it had a hand in adapting the novel for the animated 1953-ish film version (full details, with de-classified evidence, available maybe at the Memory Hole website). [...]

[Update: Short answer: No, Flash doesn't work either.] This is a test of feed readers. I want to see if the Flash version of the polls I embedded in “A Quick Youth Relevance Poll: School, Church, and Unschooled Youths” will show up in Bloglines and Google Reader, since the Java versions don’t. If you’ve already [...]

Just a quick note to say that this blog has been preempted by end-of-year duties such as: assessing (and overseeing publication of) the 1001 Flat World Tales (more soon: student reflections from Hawaii and Seoul already done, and Denver hopefully soon to follow; after that, teacher reflections) assessing and polishing the Broken World wiki-textbook with [...]

I just saw this photo on Edge — The Third Culture, my very favorite science and culture online magazine. The Cassini satellite snapped it of Saturn. Steven Pinker gives more background. Notice the speck of light (inset upper left) between the rings? Say hello to home. And say a word of thanks to hard science [...]