OS Dilemma

It’s been a rather busy couple days on the Ohio Technology Coordinator Listserv as the state’s tech coordinators have debated various strategies around Microsoft Vista. While there’s certainly no consensus, there do seem to be three schools of thought among those who are entrenched Windows users: Keep using XP: Windows XP does everything we need [...]

Posted on April 29th, 2008 by John Schinker
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A Vision of Students Today

I ran across this video yesterday. It was created by the Digital Ethnography working group at Kansas State University. Led by Dr. Michael Wesch, this team of cultural anthropology undergraduates is exploring the impact of digital technology on human interaction and human interaction on digital technology. College students are finding that sitting in a huge [...]

Posted on April 28th, 2008 by John Schinker
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An Encounter with an Interviewer

Earlier this week, I was asked to respond to an inquiry from one of our high school students. He’s writing an article for the school paper about technology in the schools, and he had several questions about how technology has changed society and school since the start of the millennium. Because this was an inquiry [...]

Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by John Schinker
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EarthCast 2008 Continues

EarthCast 2008 is a  webcast taking place on April 22, 2008. It started at midnight GMT, and continues for 24 hours. This is a continuous, day-long conversation about the Earth and taking care of it. Matt Montagne has spearheaded this effort, with a great deal of support from Doug Symington, Jose Rodriguez, and others in [...]

Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by John Schinker
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Mayer and Bettle

We can’t keep up. We can’t know about everything. Just because something’s famous, even in the relatively small world of education and technology, that doesn’t mean I have ever heard of it. Sure, I know about Creative Commons. If you license your work with a CC license, you allow others to use it, with some [...]

Posted on April 21st, 2008 by John Schinker
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