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Will, your part here about tech conferences really hit a nerve with me. Your experience was spot on with what I just experienced at a regional conference. Except there was one bright spot - this pretty engaging guy named Wesley…

It’s time to total

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Dean, I think the suggestion to send it home with a kid per night is a great one - one which I might consider, too. A wonderful way to involve parents, and give the the kids the time they really need to explore the XO.

A couple of places to go to expa

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What an amazing embarrassment - especially considering all those who have still not received their ONE after waiting for months (wonder if Andy Carvin got his yet?).

Anyway, my kids and I are having a great time learning about and with these little la

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Today my XO or “$100 laptop” arrived. It brings with it the cool-looks-like-a-Fisher-Price-toy kind of responses from others. I fire it up a

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Jeff, fantastic news! Good for you. Enjoy the heck out of the rest of your current school year - Mark

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Clarence, thanks so much for continuing to be an inspiration, even for the early adopters. And I'm glad you are a marker of events, as it is so important to keep track of all this! Happy to be here as comment #952, or so :) - Mark

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Scott, what's happening is white listing. A 180 degree difference between what used to be the norm just a couple of years ago (black listing), and how the general public thinks a filter works. The crime against education is insidious and unforgivable. - M

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Will, I remember when you announced you were leaving the classroom. I was really disappointed, feeling like the best, brightest, and most influential voice from the classroom had deserted us, had left town. With apologies to the many wonderful teacher blo

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Bob, you are so right about needing to push what we do with the technologies that are landing in our laps. I just bought an RCA Small Wonder, similar to the Flip (but under $100 and takes up to a 2GB SD card), for my third graders. They just produced thei

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Jeff, you're a mensch.

The Mariners finally got rid of some dead wood, so things might get exciting around here next season... if you're leaning that way :)

Seriously, good for you. Make the rest of your year in Shanghai one that nobody will forge

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David, thanks. What you have created with Classblogmeister, especially when you look at the growing(!) archive - is extraordinary. Lives have been changed, and are influenced, every day.

One of the things we looked at tonight in my classroom, during

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Glad you found the contract useful. I just wanted to mention that the Blogger’s Contract was originally developed by David Warlick, and you can find it here:

http://classblogmeister.com/bloggers_contract.doc

Good luck to you! - Mark

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Doug, thanks. It should be noted (and I will do so on the blog you mentioned) that the Blogger's Contract was developed by David Warlick, here.

With his permission I started with that and developed one for my kids, here. - Mark

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Brian, nice post. I am so with you there on the test scores...

Larry, I understand your doubts. If you have not experienced first hand some of this transformation in the classroom, it probably is pretty hard to believe.

Like Brian, I'm in my 27th y

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Jeff, fantastic presentation! I loved many parts of it, but a couple really stood out for me:

the distinction you drew between communities and personal networks is so important, and it will be mighty interesting to see where they end up relative to eac

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Janice and Cheryl,
I got mine this morning, early. Had hoped the school would pick up the tab, but no dice. But I'm in there anyway. So who's going to be the first to set up the ning group for all of us olpc-ers? Tom Hoffman, who also bought one this mor

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Angela, I just had to laugh, looking at your videos. My first small wonder video (shot 5 minutes out of that impossible plastic wrapper) was of my cat Lincoln. I showed it the next day at school to a colleague, and the response was "you let your cat walk

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Angela,
This sounds fantastic! One of the few times I wish I were teaching older kids :) Looks like you have done wonderful prep work - now it's all up to the kids (well, mostly). I've subscribed to your podcast feed and look forward to listening to yo

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Brian and Paul,
In terms of expectations for student writing, teachers correcting, and so on... This discussion is really no different than the "How good does it have to be before we can put it up in front of the school?" discussion teachers have had wit

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Well, Clarence, you've put a lump in my throat.

Because of the truth you speak so beautifully.

Because you hit every point squarely on the head.

Because you are a classroom teacher.

I will do everything I can to get others to watch this. Tha

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