skoolmarm http://skoolmarm.edublogs.org Just another Edublogs.org weblog Wed, 28 Dec 2005 03:15:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Technology? http://skoolmarm.edublogs.org/2005/12/28/technology/ http://skoolmarm.edublogs.org/2005/12/28/technology/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2005 03:15:13 +0000 skoolmarm http://skoolmarm.edublogs.org/2005/12/28/technology/ Looking at blogging in education:

First: Congratulations! http://joycevalenza.edublogs.org/ for WORD PRESS educational blogger Joyce Valenza, a librarian who keeps “Never Ending Search” 

http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html

http://incsub.org/blog/2005/blogs-anywhere-high-fidelity-online-communication

http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/knowledgetree/edition04/pdf/Blogging_to_Learn.pdf

 


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Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club: Pulling the Plug on the Electronic Revolution,, a collection of essays edited by Bill  Henderson extols “the pencil’s unique virtues [as] both utilitarian and philosophical.”
 ”You can take it into the bathtub if you want to. . .the pencil is a spiritual instrument. Buddhist even. . . Mostly, the pencil represents a backlash against our speed-obsessed culture . . . The pencil’s unique virtues are both utilitarian and philosophical, he says.

from The Toronto Start, December 26, 2005.
Read about the Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club:


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from: Robbie McClintock: Power and Pedagogy: Transforming Education through Information Technology


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