So, what’s new in SD?

In claiming South Dakota as my home for the past 40 years, I’m thrilled with the news that Lead SD is now the home of the DUSEL – Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory.  Governor Rounds made the announcement of NSF’s choice on July 10, 2007 along with credit going to many people and the subsequent [...]

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This is in response to the following: http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2007/06/calling-all-blo.html 
I am intrigued with what I’m reading about getting our leaders in education to take the bull by the proverbial horns and lead the way.  It isn’t so easy and I liked Scott McLeod’s reference to the way many leaders probably feel about technology in their lives(http://scottmcleod.typepad.com/dangerouslyirrelevant/2006/11/riding_llamas_i.html ) by [...]

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Finally actually watched Did You Know? 2.0 ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U ) and was so thoroughly taken in by this information.  It seems unbelieveable that there have been so many changes taking place in the world, so quickly.  Where have I been?  One hears about such things but to see it all in one place is mesmerizing….
I want [...]

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So now I’m trying to absorb all the blogging that’s out there and finding it is impossible.  (All that stuff out there, plus all the stuff I find I don’t even want to know about)  So let’s stick to education and technology issues since that’s where I’m coming from in this space.
I just was exposed to [...]

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Just some intesting things that have come into my life this past month….
http://www.districtadministration.com/pulse/commentpost.aspx?news=no&postid=18893   Thornburg: On Wikipedia and the Meaning of Everything….
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html  Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds…
http://www.edutopia.org/node/2824   Will Richardson – The new face of learning…
http://www.wikimatrix.org/   Comparison of various wiki sites to find features [...]

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New Challenges….
Date: June 30, 2007 12:29 PM

As I’m reading through the many comments on this week’s topic and catching up with others, I’m reminded of how much of an impression TTL made on me about 7 years ago. I remember the awe I felt at the possibilities for technology in our schools and the [...]

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See, here is something of what I’m uncovering and it’s a fascinating thing to find what others are talking about out there!!!!
http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/04/vonnegut/#comments
So, I’m reading along about what Alan Levine is referring to and realizing that I agree with him in the fact that “being” and “doing” are what’s important and what drives us, not what others [...]

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I realized in reading some more for the online class I’m taking, that it’s difficult to take information out of a book and put it into practice, especially technology.  Is this what it’s like to be a Digital Immigrant?  I think it must be — seems that nothing in technology comes easily from books for [...]

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Welcome to Edublogs.org. 
So here I am taking baby steps into the new unknowns of the Internet….
My goodness how things have changed in 5 years since I last took any classes in technology!!!!
Bear with me — as a teacher I owe it to myself to learn new things and to find out what my students know….
Wish [...]

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