Author Archives
Jeffrey L. Hunt is an educational technologist living in suburban Chicago. When he's not learning about and implementing technology in classes, he's running or looking at the stars.
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February Morning Sky
Advertisements Venus and Moon on February 28, 2011 Venus continues to dominate the early morning sky. While fading in brightness as it races behind the sun and into the evening sky later in the year, it is the brightest starlike… Read More ›
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Bright Skywatching Configuration
Advertisements Venus, the crescent moon, and the star Antares make a bright sky watching configuration during the predawn hours of late January 2011. Venus entered the morning sky during November, and it has put on a bright display as it appeared near… Read More ›
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Web Filtering Feedback
Advertisements I am working on a committee developing school technology “security” procedures. We need feedback about web filtering standards. (The Libertarian committee of my personality tells me that we shouldn’t have web filtering. For those interested in understanding mindset theory… Read More ›
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Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse
Advertisements A spectacular lunar eclipse is visible across the skies of North America, just hours before the winter solstice, on the night of December 20/21, 2010. A lunar eclipse is visible when the moon, at the full phase, moves into the Earth’s shadow. … Read More ›
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Virtual School Symposium 2010
Advertisements Nearly 2,000 conferees assembled in Glendale, Arizona for the 2010 edition of the Virtual School Symposium, the annual conference of the International Association for K-12 online Learning, November 14-16. The theme of the conference: Online and Blended Learning: The… Read More ›
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Moving Schools to Transformation
Advertisements How do we move schools to transformation and away from “tool use” and “integration?” The diagram above is from my dissertation research where I recommended a planning model, I called the “Technology Planning Web.” In that research I… Read More ›
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Students Need Digital Fluency
Advertisements Vocabulary is important. In my last posting, I wrote about the technology levels I observe in schools and that largely these waste time and money. We need effective steps based on strong trends. Students need more than skills, they… Read More ›
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Push Schools to be Transformative
Advertisements As I listen to my peers and observe the actions of school districts, my conclusion is that there are two levels of technology use in schools: tools and integration, although these levels do not justify the expense of hardware… Read More ›
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Cell Phones at School Bring Classes Into Light
Advertisements An article printed in Tuesday’s (Oct 12, 2010) edition of the Chicago Tribune and online the night before describes how schools are relenting to students’ personal technologies. A local principal is quoted, “It’s one of those things — if you can’t… Read More ›
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Technology Leadership
The district technology leader could be an administrator, manager, or teacher who has responsibility for technology operations across a school district.
