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At the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play — with many examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn’t).

For those of you who live in New York City, Noble Desktop is offering free workshops on a number of different topics concerning digital media and web design. Most, but not all, deal with the Adobe Creative Suite. It’s a great opportunity at a great price. Click here to register.

Some Yale professors are giving up on SMART Boards. They claim that the boards often cause more problems than they solve.

We're not built for multitasking and anyone who tells you they are is lying to you—and there are some really smart people at Stanford who'd like to prove that to you.

Join other superintendents, assistant superintendents and ed-tech leaders to discuss innovative technology solutions and proven techniques to drive student achievement, lower the cost of teacher professional development and maximize the use of your technology budget.

Making use of the latest information and communication technology (ICT) and innovation can help countries expand educational opportunities for all in a way that also advances development, a senior United Nations official said today.

There has been a lot of ink spilled over the recent security holes found in older versions of Wordpress. John Gruber of Daring Fireball has pointed out—fairly, I might add—that Wordpress is relatively alone when it comes to this class of wide-spread security breaches. Is WordPress poorly-designed, security-wise? Is it just a matter of [...]

According to Education Secretary Arne Duncan: This is not my most popular line when I’ve talked to young folks,” he admitted. “But I think the idea of schools being open five days a week, six hours a day, nine months of the year just doesn’t work for families in our country anymore. I’ve read the [...]

Liz Davis, author of The Power of Educational Technology, made a list of tips for teaching technology to teachers. Since that’s my new gig now, I thought it was prudent to peruse the list. She argues number ten is the most important (click here to find out what exactly number ten was—I’m not spoiling it here). I argue that number one was equally important.

Alan, author of CogDogBlog, posted a great write-up of how you can use Google Spreadsheets to create dynamic web pages with ease. It's not a replacement for PHP and MySQL, but it's a healthy supplement for when you want to add functionality without getting your hands dirty with lots of code. It's also a create resource for those not comfortable with developing in PHP and MySQL.