November 2008
Escape to the Library →
I’m passing this information from my colleague and friend, Dana Maloney, who is coordinating this year’s NJ Council of Teachers of English 2008 High School Writing Contest. She would like to reach as…
Surfing the Internet Boosts Aging Brains →
Surfing the Internet Boosts Aging
Brains. That’s what an article in The New York Times said.
Well, thank goodness.
Having just
marked another year myself this month, I was interested in…
October 2008
Chocolate Dreams →
Back on the diet to try to get down to my pre-vacation in the Bahamas weight, and I have been craving chocolate - and I mean prescription-strength chocolate. Feel free to mail donations… …
A Poet Wish List →
A friend of mine (not a poet) recently asked me, “Ken, you’re a poet. What would a poet like to get as a gift?” Well, my first thought was that they want the same things as everyone else….
Where You Live: NJCTE High School Writing Contest →
A colleague and friend, Dana Maloney, is coordinating this year’s NJ Council of Teachers of English High School
Writing Contest. She would like to reach as many teachers and students in New Jersey…
Coworking →
Coworking is an emerging trend in the evolving nature of what we call the workplace. The term is new to me, but not
all that new. It’s an idea that first found favor with work-at-home…
OpenLearn From The Open University →
Following last week’s post about Peer2Peer University, I thought
I should also write a bit about the OpenLearn website which gives
free access to course materials from The Open…
A Planet With A Spine →
My friend, Dana Maloney, is coordinating this year’s NJCTE High School Writing Contest (see earlier post for details). The theme of this year’s contest is “Celebrating the Voices of New Jersey.”…
NJCTE High School Writing Contest →
NJCTE High School Writing Contest 2009
The New Jersey Council of Teachers of English
Invites New Jersey Students in Grades 9-12 to Participate
“Celebrating the Voices of New Jersey”…
Peer To Peer University →
The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) campus is being built as an online community of open study groups for
short university-level courses. It’s not a university. It is designed to help you…
Saving the World, One Video at a Time →
A quick reblogging of my friend Robert Stribley’s post written after he attended a panel discussion at The New
School, entitled “Saving the World, One Video at a Time.” Each of the four panelists…
Quotes From Students →
A few lines from this week’s papers passed on to me by a colleague… After you read the thirtieth essay, some of this starts to sound very wise. Then you get up, make some…
My Birthday Party →
I would love to have my birthday party at Kramer’s apartment.
Get Happy
The Taxonomic Impediment →
This essay is about holistic scoring. I see connections all around me. It’s one of those blessing/curse qualities.
As an undergraduate English major, it was very useful for literature classes. I…
A New Role for Copyrighted Material →
With very little public fanfare, on October 14th, 2008, President Bush signed Senate bill S.3325 into law. The bill,
The
Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual…
Facebook Photo Facts →
Facebook has announced that it now stores 10 billion photographs uploaded by its members. It stores each photo in four different sizes, so really it’s 40 billion image. About 15 billion photos…
Tim on Broadway →
Demotivation Posters →
A Justin Stamp →
Visualizing →
I’ve come across many online image creation sites since the last time I wrote about a few, so I’m
adding a few more to the mix.
There are good programs for image creation, but many of…
Does Joe the Plumber know Joe Six-Pack? |... →
Blog Action, Poverty and Talking Books →
Today is Blog
Action Day and many bloggers are devoting a post today to the topic for this year of poverty.
Probably, a good number of blogs will discuss sites like …
The Graveyard Book →
You can watch Neil Gaiman read from his The Graveyard Book on a 9-city video tour. At each stop on the tour, Neil will read one chapter. It ran October 1-9 and video is posted online. …
Hey Prof, Let's Chat About That Smart Classroom →
Yesterday, I read the press
release from CDW-G (a subsidiary of CDW Corporation, the IT solutions company that many schools use)
about a study they
did called “The 21st-Century…
Self Portraits: Van Gogh →
I know it’s just some morphing software that merges one portrait over the other based on the position of the head - but it’s cool. Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Out of the Cloud →
Miller Airpark
A few Saturdays back, I was at Miller Air
Park fueling the Piper Archer airplane I
had rented for a flight down to Cape May County airport. It was a busy…
A View from the Cloud →
Miller Airpark
A few Saturdays back, I was at Miller Air
Park fueling the Piper Archer airplane I
had rented for a flight down to Cape May County airport. It was a busy…
Caveat Executor →
Since July, 2004, my division at NJIT had been using a customer relationship management software tailored for the
education market called Edgenuiti. The software package allowed us…
Poets are made, not born →
If you’re new to this blog, you might not know that it is an extension of the poetsonline.org website. We offer a monthly poetry writing prompt and the opportunity to submit your poetic response…
Starbucks and Water →
An investigation by the Sun revealed that over 23.4m litres of water are poured down the drains of 10,000 Starbucks outlets worldwide due to a policy of keeping a tap running non-stop. It is…
Ning At The Half Million Mark →
The Ning blog
posted that they now host 500,000 social networks. Ning hit the Net in
February 2007, so that’s about a new social network every 30 seconds.Other ources estimate that about…
Moment of Zen:National Debt Clock →
Whoa. The National Debt Clock (you knew we had one, right?) didn’t have enough room to fit in the new amount of debt the United States has - I guess it’s like a 13th hour. Check out this brief…
Google Teacher Academy →
I got word
through a listserv yesterday that the next Google Teacher Academy will be on November 18, 2008 in New York City.
Unfortunately, not only is the deadline for applying tomorrow…
The Top Social Networks On Mobile →
Friends of mine know that I’m a
Luddite when it comes to phones. Well, not really a Luddite - I’m not smashing them or anything like that - I’m just someone
who doesn’t care very much…
