I have studied educational technology for over 20 years; my work has focused primarily on teachers’ use of technology for teaching, learning, and professional enhancement.  Overall, we have always seen wonderful pockets of projects and ideas that are making a difference but we have not really seen the dramatic, large scale implementations that some of us have hoped for!  Recently, I reread The National Education Technology Plan (http://www.nationaledtechplan.org/), released by the U.S. Department of Education in January 2005, and I was struck that its first action step is to “strengthen leadership.”

These are my Jumptags for March 13th through March 16th: 27 Things To Do Before a Conference – If you're attending events over the next several months, you might give some thought to a quick checklist that might help you better accomplish your goals. As Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning – a resource for educators planning to incorporate technologies [...]

These are my Jumptags for March 3rd through March 10th: Userfly Review – The service lets you record your site’s users’ actions and then play them back in your own browser. eXe : eLearning XHTML editor – tool to specifically assist teachers and academics to publish professional looking web pages according to the structure and form required for good teaching, [...]

Something must be done about the utilization of Web-based technology resources in schools. Too often I visit campuses where computer equipment sets idly collecting dust. While computers are the main gateways to Web-based resources, dusty equipment is a clear and obvious indication that barriers exist to the land of plenty we commonly refer to as the World Wide Web. Web-based applications and resources continue to emerge at rapid rates as the debate over technology utilization and student achievement cycles around conflicting reports and research findings. These factors lead me to believe that we are focusing on the wrong stages of technology implementation.

Increasingly social networks are being used in business, education and by non-profit groups. Which social networks do you use? Which one is your favorite? Why is it your favorite? How should educators be using these networks? How can these networks be used in the classroom? What kinds of student projects could be done for course credit?

These are my Jumptags for March 3rd 104 Free Fonts for Web Designers and Logo Artists – It's very essential for Designers to have an good understanding of typography and selection as the importance of typography in design can’t be neglected. The 21 Most Used Fonts By Professional Designers – The fonts are one of the most important parts of [...]

We’ve all seen it: The training material that is a jumbled mess of mismatched graphics, hard-to-read text and no sense of cohesion whatsoever. What good is the content if the learner needs a decoder ring to decipher it? Therefore, I offer up my Top 11 List of Style.

These are my Jumptags for March 2nd Learning Visions: Building Measurement into Our Training-Development Process – Overview of integrating measurement into design process. IDEO’s Ten Tips For Creating a 21st–Century Classroom Experience – Powerful ideas for architects and designers creating the schools of tomorrow New Search Technologies Mine the Web More Deeply – Search engines are starting to penetrate databases [...]