I’m on my way and I will blog about it as I can. It should be a great conference. I will post pictures. This is a conference on global education and it should be a lot of fun. Powered by . Mp3

Moon thru cell, originally uploaded by NDeRC2. The moon was lovely tonight. Having missed the astronomy party on ND’s north quad–can’t do everything–I pulled out the 8″ dobsonian with my daughter, and we tried our hands at capturing the moon through cell phone cameras. Pretty fun stuff. Jupiter and its moons were visible, but those …

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The obvious purpose of blogging is to share your experiences with others. You can wait until others wander into your blog, but a more efficient system is to get others to subscribe to your blog. Since turnabout is fair play, you ought to consider subscribing to their blogs, as well. You can subscribe to NDeRC …

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From Boulos and Wheeler: The emphasis on social learning stands in sharp contrast to the traditional Cartesian view of knowledge and learning—a view that has largely dominated the way education has been structured for over one hundred years. The Cartesian perspective assumes that knowledge is a kind of substance and that pedagogy concerns the best …

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(Just click on the image to go to the full article.) This comment, linked to the eSchool News web page featuring a story on a new report from the National Governor’s Association (NGA) on what should be done in US education–this time, adopt national STEM standards based on the best international practice–is a nice indication …

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I’m heading to this conference on the gap in quality of global education this October. Should be a great opportunity to learn what others are doing and how we can learn from one another internationally. STEM community is international, global, and STEM culture should reflect that reality. But as we learn from our friends in …

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Always on the hunt for new ways to communicate, I’m a sucker for a new widget. This one enables you to add your voice (and, the makers claim, easy updates to it, though I’ve yet to test this) to your web site. It bears watching (and listening:)

Reading NDeRC Fellow Kate Rueff’s latest blog, I was reminded of how big a role the study of rocks and minerals played in the development of my own love of science. From the kits I worked with as a grade school student to my freshman year Earth Science class, the beauty of rocks and minerals …

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This is a test on audio blog from my cellphone using dial2do. Powered by . Mp3 This test worked: both the audio file, and the transcription (the first line, above) were posted correctly, just by touching a speed dial number and giving a single audio command to dial2do. Next in line is to figure out …

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FWD:, originally uploaded by NDeRC2. This is to test blogging directly from cell phone to this blog by email through Flicker 🙂 The test worked. What is new here is that no intervening steps are required (once the system is set up) to blog here directly from a cell phone, including pictures and text. This …

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