I had a very productive Thanksgiving holiday, if by productive you mean “found cool stuff on the internet”. One of my best clicks was OpenProcessing.org. This site allows anyone to create an account and upload Java applets created exported from Processing. There’s a commenting feature and a mechanism for creating collections. In short, it’s the [...]
Archive for the ‘Policy’ Category
16 Dec
Most Likely to Succeed
This is just plain good writing, of the pleasure-to-read variety: Malcolm Gladwell absolutely nails it in his New Yorker article Most Likely to Succeed. For anyone wanting to understand the shape of the problem American public education has with finding good teachers (beyond the fact that we’re underpaid) this is a great introduction. [...]
2 Nov
Clear Credential
This is my fourth year as a teacher. I just got the email confirming that I have now jumped through all the required hoops to have my “clear” credential. (When you first get your credential it is “preliminary” and you must complete an “induction program” within the next five years in order to [...]
17 Sep
An Educational CA?
The basic idea: A government or nonprofit agency Certificate Authority, whose certificate ships with major browsers, with the sole mission of signing free or very-low-cost SSL certificates for servers at public educational institutions.
The reason it hasn’t happened: Existing private Certificate Authorities do not want to give up the business they get from public schools and [...]
29 May
Google App Engine
There’s been a lot of buzz in the press about Google App Engine, and if you’re like me you’ve been wondering a couple things:
What is Google App Engine, exactly? and
Are there implications or applications for education?
After spending the past two days immersed in the Google I/O conference, I want to try to answer both of [...]
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