March 2008
Did the next wave crest yet? →
I knew that I had read an article a few years ago in The Chronicle that used
the term “open everything.” Thank goodness for Net search. I found it online and it turned out to be…
Prompt Action: Protest Poems →
I am continuously delighted by the contacts that I make from around the world by doing poetsonline.org and this blog. One such contact inspired me to use the protest poem as a writing prompt for the…
Too Cool for Words →
A few days before his graduation in early March, one of the top students in the Web Technologies track of the EmployMe! program at NJIT
showed me his final project page. He came into my…
Open Source Alternatives →
A friend sent me a good post that’s all about “sweat of the brow” and collects 50 open source alternatives to proprietary programs in categories such as web
design, office tools, and graphics….
Granted, Technology Makes Better Writers →
“Granted, Technology Makes
Better Writers” was the title Greg Fallon and I used for the presentation that we did at the NJ Best Practices conference last week. It’s a mashup
title because…
Be Cool With The Code →
When someone you know, or some article you are reading, mentions Ajax, do you think they are referring to a doomed Greek from
the Iliad?
Does the phrase “Stonger than Dirt!“…
Random Madness →
When Chris Steffner, principal of Hackettstown High School in Hackettstown, New Jersey, was
asked at a March 19th meeting at Manasquan High School if the intiative she supports…
Friends Found To Be Greatest Source of Spam →
If that title sounds like a
headline from The Onion, it may be because I
did pick up an issue in Washington, DC when I was visiting my son. It’s entertaining to just read The Onion…
Thinking in Green, the XO →
If computer keyboards were
musical instruments, I’d type on a xylophone. —a really Big Xylophone.
I realized that shocker a week or so ago
when my XO at long last arrived and I had the…
Become a friend of Tibet →
I’m reprinting this email I received about the situation in Tibet. At least, become informed about the situation, and if you can, help by doing any of the suggestions provided. It’s not just…
Teachers As Presenters →
I attended an NJ Best Practices conference
yesterday (more on that in a future post), and sitting in the audience had me thinking about teachers as
presenters.
When I think about doing a…
Contribute to the Discussion on How the Open... →
You say that you’re getting more Web 2.0. You believe in the read/write web and
collaboration. Here’s a chance to act.
I asked on an earlier post for
readers to contribute to a…
Freeconomics part 2 →
So I have continued in my research for freeconomics part 1, and in the
way that it happens when reading online, I have jumped from one place to another.
I started reading posts by…
Who's Doing All The Work? Do the Math →
If you do the math, things don’t look very good here in the USA. The population of this country is 300 million. 160 million are retired. That leaves 140 million to do the work. There are 85…
Do Some Google Math →
The other day I was reading an article and I wanted to know what £140,000 was
in our dollars. Being alone at a computer, my first impulse is Google. I typed in “£140,000 in American…
Will the Reading List Include Comic Books? →
Would you expect to get career advice from a
comic book?
Apparently business books that are in the graphic novel format are already popular in Japan. The first
one that I’ve heard of here…
The Empty Inbox Zendo →
The PCCC book club’s choice for March was Zen Mind,
Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki. There wasn’t a great turnout for the discussion last week. I think the nature
of the book scared…
If American Idol Was For Poetry →
I read an article on The Times of London website recently that describes an Arab TV show called Millions’s Poet that looks like American Idol (or the British Pop Idol show), but…
Freeconomics →
Freeconomics
The past
six months I’ve been thinking and writing
occasionally about what I call “open
everything.” That idea comes from a newly emerging open source approach to many…
Human Networking: A University, High School &... →
a presentation by Kenneth Ronkowitz and Jahanzeb Jabbar given at the 2007 NJEDge.Net Annual Conference. Presents information on a collaboration between NJIT and Science Park High School in Newark,…
Curriki Global Collaboration →
Tim passed on
this educational network to me. There are so many coming online that it’s hard to predict which ones will get the most
traction and survive.
Curriki is meant to be…
Using Google Maps →
There are more uses for Google Maps appearing all the time. I have seen
some of these mashups that use Google Maps and attach additional data feeds.
I’m sure creative teachers could
find…
What You Can Not Be →
Our March prompt uses two poems with similar titles that seem like they might have been written from the same prompt.
In Molly Peacock’s poem, “Why I Am Not A Buddhist” and Billy…
Are We Regrading Michelle Obama's Thesis? →
Bloggers have gotten hold of Michelle Obama’s senior thesis written at Princeton University when she was 21. It’s getting all kinds of attention and analysis. In a way, it’s being…
Hands-Free in New Jersey
NJ was among many states that considered using a cell phone without a hands-free device a secondary offense. (You wouldn’t be pulled over just for that.) But as of March 1, 2008, New Jersey has changed the law so that using a cell phone without a hands-free device is a primary offense - you can be stopped just for that. NJ joins California, Connecticut, New York, and Washington. In NJ,...
Writing Ethics and Technology →
I’m on the panel titled “Writing Ethics and
Technology” 9th Annual NJWA
Conference at Georgian Court University on April
4.
I have been doing some online collaboration on the topic…
