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From my Dec 3, 2006 Blog Entry:



Apple Computers has been an interesting company to watch over the last 30 years or so. While tons of computer companies have come and gone (remember Amiga’s, Atari’s, or even Wangs?), few have actually lasted as long as this venerable educational technology company. And don’t be fooled, Apple is indeed an ed tech company.… Continue

Who is Web 2.0?
Click on over to my forum and answer my three or four questions..

Thanks

Blog entry to follow the results

Tim

A lot of you have emailed me asking about the videos I posted that my school district used as part of an ad campaign to get teachers thinking about technology.



I relent! I will write how we did it!



First of all, here was the problem:

We knew several things:

Teachers looked at technology as a class, not a tool (see the post below)

Teachers hated being told what to do

Teachers accessed their email through the district's teacher portal

Teachers like… Continue

I recently spoke with Dr. Alice Robison form MIT on the topic of how video games can be used as learnign tools. A very interesting interview, and she had some surprising insight on how to use and when to use video games.

HEre is the link: It is long, copy all of it into the URL box.

http://web.mac.com/timholt/iWeb/Byte%20Speed/Pod%20Speed/A1ACB7D8-5CCA-4392-9B1D-1605DD2385F1.html

Enjoy. Please leave some feedback.

Tim

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Okay everyone, shall we all plan a meeting at NECC in Atlanta??
We could all take pictures of each other for our blog sites,. we could all go to dinner or drinks...

It would be great to meet y'all!

How about a Classroom 2.0 dinner?


Tim

Is there anyone in the Science education community that thinks this is a worthwhile idea?

All the tech folks love it, the kids love it...

The Science fair people think it is..well...they won't comment..



What will it take to get out of the "Cardboard backboard is better" mentality.



I also did a podcast with Kevin over at his site about this topic.



Here is a blog entry form about 6 months ago...



Multimedia Science Fair… Continue

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Okay, Kevin Honeycutt forced me to come over here, and being the kinda guy that lets Kevin tell me what to do, here I am!

I will be posting more as time goes on, but in the meantime, to get an idea of where my little brain is, check out Tim's little website and let me know what you think.

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