I recently laughed when the father of a first grader remarked that it would be wonderful to be a kid today.  We were at his son's bouncy house birthday party.  The kids were running from room to room and had all of the energy in the world.  Plus, there were a couple of screens hooked up to Wii games.  Most of the kids (and ...

The Accessible World Newsletter is announcing the following for musicians: Dancing Dots: Providing Technology for Blind Musicians and Their Educators The Accessible News Wire April 23, 2008, Indianapolis, Indiana USA The next Accessible World Tek Talk online training event will explore the musical world with Bill McCann, Founder and ...

As a member of Library 2.0 on Ning, I recently received the following email from mail@library20.ning.com: Steve Hargadon is the creator of a social network for educators called Classroom 2.0 (www.classroom20.com), winner of the 2008 Edublog awards for educational use of a social networking site, and home to nearly 5,000 educators interested in ...

I once had my hand slapped during a computer inservice.  The instructor was clearly irritated that I wasn't catching on fast enough and stopped me from pushing any more keys.  I was so embarrassed.  It always seemed strange to me that teachers are expected to be patient, loving creatures, but they aren't always treated that ...

U.S. Schools Lag Behind in Use of Technology: I found this quote very helpfu, ''Virtually all U.S. schools are connected to the Internet, with about one computer for every five students''. I have been wondering throughout this course, on average, what is the student to computer ratio all over the U.S. I figured it was around 1:5, but wasn't ...