Another Year Over

It’s been a year since I got into the future-prediction business. And while I don’t want to make this a habit, I did say I’d return to the list at the end of the year to see how I did. If you’re going to make predictions about the future, it’s only fair that you review [...]

Posted on December 31st, 2009 by John Schinker
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New Tricks for Old Dogs

Here is the presentation I presented today at the eTech Ohio State Technology Conference in Columbus, Ohio. These are the Delicious links, which include all of the products mentioned below. Edit: and here is the video: In case you missed it, I discussed the following: Teachers’ attitudes toward technology have improved over the last few [...]

Posted on February 3rd, 2009 by John Schinker
Filed under: Desktop Linux, Front Page, Online Resources | 5 Comments »

Digital Ink

A little shameless self-promotion here. A few weeks ago I was talking online with some other ed-tech people, and Alvin repeated his assertion that if you Google “Alvin technology” he comes up as the first link. That, of course, led us to all to start Googling ourselves, an activity that was fun until I arrogantly [...]

Posted on April 16th, 2008 by John Schinker
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Same Money, More Computers

One of the interesting things to come out in the Beta Survey was a shift in how teachers are using technology and a shift in the availability of technology to students. Teachers reported that they’re spending more time on Internet-based activities, both to provide instruction and to use as a research tool. The most-often-used technologies [...]

Posted on April 15th, 2008 by John Schinker
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I Want My eeePC

I received our Asus eeePCs yesterday. After playing with a couple at the tech conference last week, I thought it would be worth the investment to try a few out in the district. I bought one for each building, plus one for my techs to share and one for me to play with. That’s a [...]

Posted on February 14th, 2008 by John Schinker
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