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Tag: Technology Integration

  • My kernal is bigger than your kernel

    Bill MacKenty posted a couple of times a few weeks ago taking a look at what the cost/value relationship of technology in education might be. It’s always comforting to know that you are not alone in your thoughts as this was almost exactly what I was telling people yesterday at the inaugural Festival of Teaching…

  • The zombie PowerPoint

    While working through the ideas and content that are to be part of a new course, I casually asked the question as to how content was going to be presented to students. Along with several other media, PowerPoint came up. This did not surprise me until I realized that, like many other courses, .ppt has…

  • Right hand, meet left hand

    When I was in London, riding the Tube from Westminster to Neasdon, I saw the headline for a story on one of the many papers that was littering the car as I was getting off “British Pupils do Better with Broadband”. I don’t know what the story was, but I can only assume that it…

  • 2008 Predictions

    This is one of the few last posts of the year as I take a bit of a break and as has become tradition, here are my predictions for the coming year and a review from what I said last year. So here we go. Social Systems Advertising Buyout Search I think that this coming…

  • Make it relevant

    In a recent story from Teaching Professor, Camille Belolan of Bloomsburg University wrote about about bringing media into the classroom. I think this is a quaint idea as many k-12 teachers have been doing this for quite some time – make content relevant by connecting what is in the classroom to what is outside the…