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I'm so proud of my 8th graders. We've begun an extended project in which we use an Elgg community, each student with her own blog, ...

Professor Henry Jenkins , director of the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT , continues to do admirable and innovative work. In this ...

This is cool, a great present for my dad. I took an old Dell Latitude L400 and stripped off the plastics from the motherboard and the LCD, r...

Or something like that. A pair of students in my 7th grade robotics class spent the last one-and-a-half classes stuck on a really frustratin...

I've been reading Henry Jenkins' blog about media and participatory culture. It's constantly illuminating. He's published a ...

My 5th grade classes are just finishing an exciting project extending their learning in humanities class about North American native culture...

Yesterday I brought home a free, old, but working laptop from work to give to my 7-year-old daughter to use. Right away I started installing...

I encountered a clear generation gap recently as I led a workshop for teachers in my school. I was explaining and showing them how they how ...

Rule No. 1: Check a second source. Rule No. 2: Check another source. Rule No. 3: Check another source. Students have to get used to looking ...

I went to a Logo workshop last week in which the presenter had intended to use MicroWorlds but hadn't gotten it installed yet, so I was...