February 2009
The Meeting Point Between Aptitude and Passion →
If you have heard of Sir Ken Robinson, it probably is because of his TED talks, especially “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” (see bottom) That’s how I first encountered him. He was a professor…
EDWARD HOPPER at MFA - slideshow →
HTML Goes To 5 →
Just when I thought I knew something about HTML, they bring out HTML 5. That’s the upcoming major revision of the
HyperText Markup Language (HTML), which is the main method of making content (like…
Open Source Miro Video Player Version 2 →
The Miro open-source video player has a new version 2.0 that is pretty much a total new design. New interface, you can
browse while you watch, pop out any video to an external window…
Hello, Dudley Moore →
Cemeteries are strange places for all the reasons that you would expect, but also because of the people you discover buried there when you visited for another reason. I have over the course of my…
“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
– Horace Walpole
A brief history of writing assessment →
NJIT Professor Norbert Elliot discusses the development of writing assessment with a particular focus on some of the
innovations that have come from the Educational Testing Service in…
Version 2 of the Kindle Book Reader →
The new version of the KINDLE book reader is out. With a sleek and thin design that makes Kindle 2 as thin as a typical magazine and lighter than a paperback, the new Kindle has seven times more…
Content Creators Will Rule The World →
Two recent reports that have been referenced by plenty of other bloggers recently are the Horizon 2009 report, and the Web Use Project’s “The Participation Divide: Content Creation and…
A New Business Model for Digital Music? →
A relevant followup to my post about the demise of the Ruckus music service is this webinar from EDUCAUSE Live! Choruss: A New Business Model for Digital
Music with Jim Griffin,…
Free Television →
Lately, I have surprised myself by watching more television programs online. As a long time film buff and child of
television, I like a big screen. I decried watching video on small devices like…
The Aleuminati →
The Third Place To Learn →
The “third place” is a term used in the concept of community building to refer to social surroundings that are not the first (home) or two (workplace).
In The Great Good Place,…
Scholastic Gambit Declined? →
On February 18, 2009, the Manasquan High School Chess Team attended the Shore Conference Chess Tournament at Monmouth Regional High School in Monmouth County, New Jersey. A…
The Aleuminati →
No, not the Illuminati (who will be getting some press again this May when the film version of Angels and Demons is released) This is The Aleuminati- a [not so] secret society of better beer…
Ambigrams →
Being Selfish About Pain →
I remember in my teen years being introduced to The Tibetan Book of the Deadby my friend Karen. I bought a copy of this classic, but never really got very far into it. It was a…
A River of Words: WCW For Kids →
More William Carlos Williams comes my way via Laura Shovan’s blog Author Amok…
One of this year’s Caldecott Honor books (awarded to children’s picture books) is a biography of Williams. A…
Darwin →
Charles Darwin is back in the news. Not that he has really been out of the news, but this year is the bicentennial of his birth.
In Darwin’s own time, people believed that the condition of…
Great Falls in Paterson Now A National Historic... →
Great Falls of the Passaic River by Ronkowitz On January 15, 2009, the Senate approved legislation authored by Senators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Rep.
Paterson: The Falls and The Poem →
Great Falls of the Passaic River by Ronkowitz
When the Senate approved legislation to designate the Great Falls in Paterson, New Jersey a National Historic Park last month, it…
No More Educational Blogger News →
February 2009 As Mike noted in his comment to us, EdBloggerNews is now
salesforce.com. That’s not a good sign.
ORIGINAL POST July 2006 EdBloggerNews is a news site…
No More Ruckus About Music Downloads →
It was only about a year ago
that I wrote about the Ruckus music service that offered free and legal music downloads and was being
widely promoted at colleges. Ruckus allowed students to…
Is There Still A VCR In Your World? →
e-trash What happens to VCRs (for my youthful readers, those are video cassette recorders) with the digital
conversion upon us? Unless you have a newer VCR with a digital…
What Happened To That Digital Conversion Deadline? →
I queued up a post for this week as a followup to my earlier post about the conversion of the American television system from analog to digital. February
17th was supposed to be the…
Facebook Reverses on Terms of Use →
Facebook announced today that it would withdraw changes to its “terms of service” concerning the data
supplied by the tens of millions of people who use it.
This reversal came about after a lot…
Five Minute University →
Looking for some good online lecture material?
Remember Father Guido Sarducci? Here’s a quick lecture about his Five Minute University.
He figures he can teach what an average college…
Academic Earth →
Sometimes it’s hard to categorize a blog post. Take this one today. My first thought was that it was about MEDIA, but
then I thought it could be eLEARNING or even OPEN EVERYTHING. First thought,…
"Tree of Life" →
Darwin’s “Tree of Life” Originally uploaded by speakingoffaith Darwin’s own drawing for the idea of a “tree of life” to show the branching of species and natural selection.
Give Nostradamus Another Chance →
Good ol’ Michel de Nostredame (AKA Nostradamus) was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies. The best known is Les Propheties (The Prophecies)…
2009 Edu Blogger Scholarship Contest →
Tactile Web 2.0 →
When Louis Braille, back in 1821, first developed a
system of forming letters from rectangles of embossed dots, he probably was not thinking too much about how to
display letters on tactile…
Darwin 200: Celebrating Charles Darwin's... →
Third Wish →
“Trinity” from Fulghum’s online gallery of his artwork I really enjoyed Fulghum’s early books of essays like All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten and another…
Is Facebook Getting Too Personal? →
Here’s something in Facebook that I definitely don’t like. Several times the past week when I was sending a message
to a friend in Facebook, I was presented with one of those annoying security …
The Minute The Earth Stood Still →
The Day the Earth Stood Still was released in 1951, but I didn’t see it until it appeared on TV sometime in the mid-50s. I don’t remember much…
The Less of More →
Merriam-Webster defines diploma as people involved in education might expect:
1. A document issued by an educational institution, such as a university,
testifying that the recipient has…
Tilt-Shift Photography →
Doesn’t the photo look like some little set with little people figures?
It’s called “tilt-shift” and it’s a photographic technique. Photographers use a type of camera…
