it's special somehow
it’s special somehow
when someone’s post is quickly deletedbut you catch a quick glimpse
like a shooting star, so to speak.
Lrng.
My name is Chris Pultz. I work for the Computing Services department of Lincoln Public Schools in Lincoln, NE. Please note that this page is "all opinion all the time." If you are looking for officially sanctioned LPS related news, look here, not on this page. This page is rubbish, I assure you. And if you think this is awful, you definitely do not want to follow me on Twitter. That would drive you mad!
Web 2.0 Storytelling: Emergence of a New Genre
A story has a beginning, a middle, and a cleanly wrapped-up ending. Whether told around a campfire, read from a book, or played on a DVD, a story goes from point A to B and then C. It follows a…
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…Today is not a day to talk about education. It’s a day to reap its harvest.
Here’s hoping that our young people have been well-served by the adults entrusted with their education, so that they appreciate the ideals of our democracy and the sloppy miracle of this day…
Robert Pondisco ‘Today is Not the Day’
You've got your chocolate in my peanut butter!
Two of my favorite technologies just converged. You can now get RSS feeds of your Google Alerts.
I may be the lamest person you know, because this just makes my week!
Hat tip to Scott Mcleod for introducing me to this movement.
As a person in my mid-30’s and a child of the baby boomer generation, I have never really felt like a part of any one societal group. I think now I have identified one that I want to be a part of.
TED.com
“ despite appearances, our classrooms have been fundamentally changed. There is literally something in the air, and it is nothing less than the digital artifacts of over one billion people and computers networked together collectively producing over 2,000 gigabytes of new information per second. While most of our classrooms were built under the assumption that information is scarce and hard to find, nearly the entire body of human knowledge now flows through and around these rooms in one form or another, ready to be accessed by laptops, cellphones, and iPods. Classrooms built to re-enforce the top-down authoritative knowledge of the teacher are now enveloped by a cloud of ubiquitous digital information where knowledge is made, not found, and authority is continuously negotiated through discussion and participation. In short, they tell us that our walls no longer mark the boundaries of our classrooms.
Dr. Michael Wesch
Reading This Will Change Your Brain
A leading neuroscientist says processing digital information can rewire your circuits. But is it evolution?
By Jeneen Interlandi of NEWSWEEK Published Oct 14, 2008
Creative Commons starts their annual awareness campaign with a nice new video about their purpose. If you aren’t aware of Creative Commons as an Educator, do yourself and your students a favor by stopping whatever you might be doing and go learn about it. I would say that it is one of the most fundamentally important things you should be aware of and utilizing in today’s internet culture.
“ Paul Lazarsfeld, a political scientist from the 1940s argued that [political] campaigns are essentially over before they have begun. The outcomes are structural — they are decided by events and party identification and satisfaction with the incumbent and other predictable indicators. Campaigns, he said, are “like the chemical bath which develops a photograph. The chemical influence is necessary to bring out the picture, but only the picture pre-structured on the plate can come out.
Undecided voters? - Los Angeles Times
