Scroll to bottom to listen to the podcast. [Update 3 August 2008: If you want a written version of the same story, I did my best here.] [Update 2: I've copied Stephen Downes' comments about this post, and my own response to them, in the comments, if anybody is interested.] [Update: I've added the podcast [...]

Sometimes you just want to give up. Instead, I’ll go transparent and see what ideas, counsels, or commiserations come from sharing. It’s about the “Visionary Student Blogging” connective writing project. The problem? Little vision, little connective writing. It’s partly senioritis, I think. College applications, SAT’s, too many commitments to too many extra-curricular activities (got to [...]

The conversation about managing real student blogging – public, connective, prudent, real-world network-seeking – continues in the comments to my last post. Again, for RSS folks, not to be missed if this is a concern of yours. So I’m again posting the latest round of comments here. Doug Noon starts with a good challenging question, [...]

Wow. It’s been a heady 24 hours. My site went down on Friday night around 10pm, and at midnight my neighborhood lost internet service. When I woke this morning, it was still down. It came on at 11 a.m., and I had a new experience: my Blogging Parent Letter: Choose Your Privacy Levels post made [...]

In a post last month I mentioned seeing the need for short video presentations about web 2.0 in education, and posted a snippet from a parent presentation I gave at our 1:1 Apple Laptop School launch. That snippet focused only on the motivational power of a simple ClustrMap on a blog. Here’s another one: Less [...]

It’s been a heck of a week, and it’s only Wednesday morning. So here are some updates about 1) attempting to inspire a visionary foundation in my students’ approach to blogging (via the “Campsite Seminars” in the woods around our school, as posted about earlier after watching Christian Long‘s segment of Dean Shareski‘s “Design Matters” [...]

[Welcome to Beyond School's new home, by the way. This is my first post since leaving Blogger. If you subscribed to the old "BS," please update your feed by subscribing to this new home on my own WordPress install. I'm excited to learn more about customizing WordPress by administering my own blog. You can expect [...]