Julie Evans is the CEO of NetDay/Project Tomorrow, an organization devoted to promoting innovation in the teaching of science, technology, and math.  Net Day is known for its “Speak Up” surveys, which explore the attitudes of students and teachers.  Julie is also a panelist at the “WebKids” session of the NSDL Annual Meeting, and she […]

Eric Rosenbaum and Jennifer Groff are on the “Meeting Web Kids” panel  at NSDL’s Annual Conference.  They work for MIT’s Education Arcade, which is a collaboration between MIT and the University of Wisconsin to explore the educational gaming space.  Its web site is about to undergo a major renovation, but you can see information there […]

In thinking about the promises and pitfalls of using new media in education I keep coming back to challenges associated with speed. 
How long has YouTube been around?  Well, three PayPal employees started it in February 2005 and less than 20 months later Google purchased it for more than $1.6 billion (that’s roughly $24 million […]

….A provacative idea that organizations involved in the Open Repostitories movement (and others) are working to address. Anyone who has ever bemoaned the state of their personal organization systems–I must clean out that file cabinet, or if I don’t get those photos organized and into an album they won’t make any sense to anyone, or […]