Technologically Literate

Sorry about the ghost post, something went terrible wrong when I tried to publish yesterday.  Anyway…
Is it possible that the blur of school is on us already?  I don’t mean school itself, I mean the endless cycle of Monday, garbage day, Friday, NFL game, Monday…I am guilty.  I have a fascination with crossing off dates.  [...]

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Great meeting this afternoon yielding interesting action.  I successfully lobbied the MIS department to relax the internet filter for teacher accounts.  To be honest, it was an unexpected, but welcome move by the department.   
Here is how it went down.  After some back forth between the director, I, and a well intentioned technician, the conversation changed [...]

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In August I will be going around to 9 of our schools and talking to the faculty and staff.  As the new Technology Integration Specialist, I am going to briefly cover who I am and why my job has become necessary. 
Using information from folks like Ian Jukes, George Siemens, Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod, I [...]

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Cross posted at The Bloggers’ Cafe
     In my effort to explore connectivism as a learning theory (see Conduit is King) I immediately find myself wondering, what is the most difficult part in shifting practice.  I am a child of the 20th century.  I can’t help organizing and structuring information.  I shop with a grocery list [...]

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It’s 80 degrees, sunny, and there is a slight breeze that keeps the drapes flowing in the room.  I should be outside.  Instead I have a wrist cramp, a tight back, and my eyes feel like they are filled with sand.  Yep, chronic laptop use syndrome and I blame Jeff Utecht… this time.
In Jeff’s post, Pedagogy [...]

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Who should be involved in curriculum work? 
With the wide spread use of collaborative web application the question should be why isn’t everyone involved in school curriculum?  Using a wiki or Google Document a district has the power to offer business, industry, universities, and the community at large a chance to make their voice heard.  The [...]

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Calling all integrators, new and experienced.  I am opening up the Tech Integrators pageflake community to anyone in the field of ed tech.  I welcome your participation and only request an email address to get you involved.
You can PM me at kpruitt@dasd.k12.pa.us.
If you are creating your own, please forward your public “pagecast.”  It would be great to see [...]

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I want to thank Dave Cormier for a brillant idea.  Although he was rushed and met with one ill-prepared website, Dave’s presentation at the FOE (Future of Education)  online conference was excellent and could change the way we see the aggregator. 
First, I can’t say that I am a big fan of the online conference.  It’s the blur of a chat [...]

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I am not going to get into particulars, but during a nice conversation about using web tools in the classroom an interesting comment was posted.  The source, who ironically declines to post a picture,  questioned if using web tools is a step toward killing FTF communication and if we advocate them are we teaching our children that it is okay to [...]

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Balance.  In personal life, and in professional life, we all need balance.  Balance in the way we approach, balance in the way present.  Comfort can disguise itself as balance.  Routine is easily misread as “I am doing a great job.”  I have been blown out of my routine both in my personal and professional life.  Personally, [...]

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