photo credit: Francois Schnell I just dropped $1750 on 5 Asus EeePC laptops. I'm hoping to get some bang for my buck with this purchase. I'll be distributing these in my seventh grade classroom. The laptops will primarily be used for web browsing...

Well, I got a little blowback from the teachers. Apparently they didn't like competing against each other for classroom laptops. One teacher replied that she maintained her website because it was part of her job, not because of the laptop reward. It was...

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I've always tempted students with external rewards to encourage participation. While the idealist in me believes in learning being its own reward, I think I would be foolish not to appeal to more basic instincts. I'm starting the same tact with our...

As the new year rolls in, I'm again reworking our technology plan in the face of paltry budget. The folks in our Tech Task Force smile at the $15,000 for our yearly budget. For some of their businesses, they couldn't get through the day on those funds....

Futuriness is kinda like truthiness, but completely different. I'll define futuriness as: An event that has revolutionary qualities but could just be filled with hype and hot air. Students 2.0 launched today. I can't tell if this is an...

I give up. I thought that I could some how manage it, but the flood of emails is crushing my soul. There was a time I plowed through my email with reckless abandon, sending replies and forwards peppered with insight and wit. A bad week saw my inbox...

I've come to bury blogspot, not to praise it. Well I finally made the transition away from blog at blogspot. This site will be a sandbox to experiment with web design and other good stuff. Until next...