July 28, 2008 at 8:08 am » Comments (0)

Last month I read Little Brother by Cory Doctorow and really liked it. Liked it so much that I wrote a review of it for the upcoming issue of Canadian ...more »

July 22, 2008 at 8:35 am » Comments (0)

Last March, I wrote the post Levelling Up: two-digit math in kids' video games, about how I used experience points and coins in kids' mmos like Runescape and virtual worlds ...more »

July 21, 2008 at 9:18 am » Comments (2)

Ok, so here's how it goes: Writer announces that he's delving into World of Warcraft, purely for research purposes ;) and doesn't blog for nearly a month. A classic case ...more »

June 10, 2008 at 10:50 am » Comments (0)

Speaking at the National Conference on Media Reform, Bill Moyers outlines the dismal landscape that is mainstream media today, while encouraging all viewers, listeners and readers to demand that the ...more »

May 12, 2008 at 5:30 pm » Comments (0)

A few months ago, I asked if I was the only one troubled by Doodle 4 Google, the in-school marketing campaign art competition put on by the good folks at ...more »

May 10, 2008 at 5:44 pm » Comments (0)

Yesterday was the Joan Ganz Cooney Center Inaugural Symposium, Logging Into the Playground: How Digital Media Are Shaping Children's Learning, in New York City and thanks to the wonders of ...more »

April 27, 2008 at 10:35 am » Comments (0)

With the arrival of ning.com, creating social networks is as easy as creating an email account. I find places like Facebook too broad in their focus for an online network. ...more »

April 21, 2008 at 10:44 am » Comments (2)

Last Friday marked the end of my classes at OISE's Bachelor of Education program, but I'm not done with my teacher training or talking to teachers. In addition to a month-long ...more »

February 21, 2008 at 10:21 pm » Comments (1)

Not much time to write about this, but the MacArthur Foundation just granted the great folks at Global Kids $72,000 to create RezEd, an online social network for educators intreresting ...more »