Vicki Davis is a Cool Cat Teacher.  Actually she is THE Cool Cat Teacher.  You may have heard of her blog, CoolCatTeacher.com   It is t...

Way Way Way back in the late 80s, Apple had a vision for computing called the Knowledge Navigator.  This dream had a certain 2001 Space ...

We all know that the Internet is a busy place. It is difficult to comprehend that 1,407,724,920 people use the internet  each day.  Sometim...

I was just reading a posting by my friend, Vicki Davis (AKA CoolCatTeacher). She was mentioning that she had been having a lot of fun wit...

How can gaming affect your brain and biological acuteness?  It is an on-going argument about the effects of gaming.  Dr. Bavelier share a ...

UNI Instructional Technology Masters Program from Leigh Zeitz If you are looking for a 21st Century Instructional Technology Maste...

What a WONDERFUL title: Horton Hears a Tweet!!!  This is the title of an EduCause article by Joanna Dunlap and Patrick Lowenthal is a c...

Are YOUR kids using technology? Of course they are. My 2-year old grandson is continually grabbing my iPhone from me and then using it...

I was just reading through my email when I found a link to a PBL article about Moving Beyond Uncomfortable Beginnings by Theresa Chimenti...

Dr. Jerry Schnabel In my last post, we looked at factors that did not influence superintendents to implement a 1:1 initiative ...

Here it is . . . I have been wanting to use the Vlog (Video Blog) format for my blog for a LONG time so I decided to do it today to tell yo...

Dr. Jerry Schnabel Have you heard that Bill Gates is giving $5,000 to Facebook users who click on a share link? I got ...

Designing Recruitment, Selection & Talent Management Model tailored to meet UNJSPF's Business Developmen...

Do you realize that over 50% of the 327 school districts in Iowa's 99 counties have 1-to-1 computing initiatives? This doesn't me...

Is the Internet the Digital Pacifier of our Digital Natives?  This is a question that was posed by Bill Lammers.  He conveys an inciden...

A minute isn't what it used to be . . . We used to hold our breath for a minute.   Now we upload 72 hours of video on YouTube.  ...

Wondering what your superintendent is thinking? Gallup was thinking the same thing, but they asked them. This was all described in t...

Well, I'm back from the ISTE '13 conference in San Antonio in late June.  We had a wonderful time. Gaming was the theme of the c...

Do you ever feel like you live in the Age of Distraction? I was just taking (not teaching) a course on how to teach online, when they i...