I took in an excellent eye-opening session by Ted Hasselbring from the University of Kentucky today on Fact Fluency: The Phonics of Mathematics.
He argued very persuasively from many research projects that he and his colleagues have conducted that, just as we have phonics in reading to develop literacy fluency, we need a similar program for […]

I’m in Orlando at FETC. Apple has a decent-sized booth here, and I spoke to one of the senior people at the booth.
According to the source, Apple is very close to winning a deal with Cobb County in Atlanta, which has been negotiating with Apple, IBM, and Dell.

It was very interesting to be in the free wireless area at FETC: almost all the people there were Mac users.
I had to get a shot of three guys that I started talking with … that’s my laptop in the foreground. The middle guy works for Apple, and he didn’t like it that in my […]

I know Sun Microsystems has been having a bad day for the past few years, but is it really this bad?

Whenever I see something cool at FETC, I snap a picture of it. Here’s four products that I was impressed with, for varying reasons ….

I’m attending the Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC) this week, and took just a couple snaps of the Orange County Convention center …

If you get half a chance, check this out. It’s a speech given to graduates … I wish I had heard that when I was graduating.
I tallked to some students today about education and jobs - too bad I couldn’t have been quite this good!

I’m in Orlando, Florida for some client meetings and the Florida Educational Technology Conference, or FETC for short.

I’ve started a Free Nick petition.
Please go sign it and put some pressure on Steve to drop this silly suit against Think Secret. Full text of the petition follows …

There’s an interview at Gizmodo with Bill Gates, talking about intellectual property, patents, and digital right management (DRM) issues.
And I think it shows that Bill’s a liar, because I doubt he is stupid.