Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK), the lawmaker behind the pork-barrel Bridge to Nowhere and an infamous revelation that the Internet is constructed of a series of tubes is at it again. This time, he wants to ban Wikipedia at schools that receive federal funding. From Computerworld: Early in January, Stevens introduced Senate bill 49, which among [...]

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Dan, the guy behind Higher Ed Chat, is starting-up a Codex of Terrible Higher Ed Marketing. He writes: There will be a few categories: 1. “They Paid Someone to Design This?!” A list of the most poorly designed college websites. 2. “This Video is Supposed to Inspire… Whom?” A list of the cheesiest and most [...]

A great video created by Michael Wesch at Kansas State University:

I’ve been participating on the Minneapolis Public Schools Technology Planning Steering Committee. The committee has adopted the Leapfrog Paradigm and leapfrog thinking into its planning. Leaping frogs are showing up in presentations, and leapfrog is becoming a metaphor for creativity in the district. The committee’s work has, however, thus far focused on discussion on the [...]

My interest in China is booming. I will travel to China in April for a teacher education conference sponsored by the Ministry of Education and several international organizations. I will present a workshop on leapfrogging in teacher education to build globally-competent and competitive human capital –particularly among youth. It appears they’re taking leapfrogging seriously. China [...]

This seems like a good idea. From Crunch Gear: Widgetbox, a marketplace for Web widgets, now lets you quickly and easily build a widget for your blog. Called Blidgets, they combine the power of RSS feeds with the “easy page integration of widgets.” The Blidget Maker auto-discovers RSS feeds, images and descriptions for the blog [...]