Second Life Education Research

One of the toughest parts of playing with new ideas is finding a way to effectively present those ideas to other people. You wrestle with PowerPoint graphs, charts, doodles you make in Photoshop and finally stomp off in a frustrated huff. Well, no more! Ralph Lengler and Dr. Martin J. Eppler from visual-literacy.org have developed […]

The term “web 2.0″ has become about as hackneyed as a Valley Girl’s “gag me with a spoon.” Everything from Youtube (which is actually an example of what web 2.0 is meant to describe) to a car’s company’s “build your own car” page (which is far from it) is being described as “web 2.0.” The […]

It’s official. In May I will begin a new position as the Director of Emerging Technologies (great title, huh?) at Media Sauce in Indianapolis.
Media Sauce is a fantastically hip multi-media marketing company. As Director of Emerging Technologies I will be responsible for researching and creating “the next big thing” in multi-media content delivery and creation. […]

For the past few months I’ve been working on a covert project for ANGEL Learning (www.angellearning.com). Together with their chief products officer, Ray Henderson, a few students, and with lots of input from SLED members, who were sworn to secrecy, we’ve developed Angel Learning Isle. The island […]

Billy tunes out during discussion. Sally would rather pass notes about boys than read an assignment. As teachers, it’s our job to engage our students and to teach them to learn, to be excited and curious about the world around them. To feel that the subject matter in our classes is relevant and important to […]

I certainly advocate evangelize for technology in the classroom. I’ve spoken to teachers all around the country in an effort to get them excited about using technology to teach and learn and it’s wonderful to see folks get excited about their teaching. To see the virtual “light bulbs” popping up around a group of teachers […]

I attended the American Education Researcher’s Association conference in Chicago. Dr. Sharon Tettegah organized a great invited panel for us. There were eight panelists with only seven minutes each and, beyond the technology problems we ran into, we made the best of our brief presentations. Ranging from Jeremy Kemp’s presentation about Sloodle to Vicki Suter’s […]

Mother’s day is coming soon. My mom (in her mid 50s) just registered her first domain and blogs every day. She amazes me at every turn. So here with Mom’s day approaching I’m trying to figure out what to get my newly-techy mother for a gift and I read her blog only to find out […]

Nancy Baym was nice enough to tag me on the latest blogger’s meme: the Simply Successful Secrets project. The idea is to list five things you do everyday that contribute to your success so that we can all learn from each other and be more “successful” together. Apparently I’m “on a roll” lately so […]