Wireless Access in Class?

David Warlick started this conversation about free wifi access at the American Library Association conference this month in New Orleans.  Most (all right, both) of the technology conferences I’ve attended in the last year have had free WIFI available, but only in designated areas. This is the first time I’ve seen that they’re providing it [...]

Posted on June 22nd, 2006 by John Schinker
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Spammers Like Me

Well, it didn’t take too long. Yesterday, this blog received about 20 comments to various posts, all within about an hour. Apparently, most of the things I write about are directly related to free online Texas hold ‘em games. This morning, I had another 47 comments. Fortunately, I had WordPress configured to not automatically post [...]

Posted on June 22nd, 2006 by John Schinker
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Wet Paint

Wikis frustrate me. Back in ’91 when Tim Berners-Lee created the first web site, his focus was on an interactive medium. The web was meant to be a forum where everyone could be a publisher, everyone could contribute to the collective knowledge, and everyone could benefit from others’ contributions. It didn’t work out that way. [...]

Posted on June 19th, 2006 by John Schinker
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Have to Have to

A subset of my tech team met today to work on the implementation of the Technology Academic Content Standards. These standards have been adopted by the Ohio Department of Education. While school districts are not technically required to use them, it is strongly recommended that we do so. In fact, the tool that school districts [...]

Posted on June 14th, 2006 by John Schinker
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Making Progress

We’re finally making some progress in the online learning environment. When I started teaching in 1993, I wanted to find a way to use the social, collaborative atmosphere of usenet in education. I was only interested in asynchronous communication — message boards — where people could contribute at different times. The advantages were easy to [...]

Posted on June 7th, 2006 by John Schinker
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