I am both a technology user and a technology skeptic. I’ve just created my fourth (or maybe fifth?) weblog\/journal (this here thing), imported entries from my prior work journals, and am likely to buy the nifty quasi-laptop I’m evaluating when the month is over.<\/p>\n
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\nBut I am rarely among the early adopters in any technology “wave,” and I am very aware of Larry Cuban’s cautions about technology use in the classroom. So when is it worth it, and when does one throw in the towel? I generally wait until I can see one or two shrewd uses for something before I try it. So I waited a few years until I thought of how<\/em> to use Movable Type<\/a> before taking the several-hours’ effort today (or yesterday and this morning) to install it and configure it to my satisfaction. I don’t use a digital camera to take pictures of students (something I have to do to learn names); I use a tiny Polaroid camera that the company developed to find a niche with teens. Didn’t Shakespeare writes something in Hamlet<\/cite>, “The use—the use’s the thing wherein we’ll catch the image of the thingamabob”? Uh, maybe not. But if it’ll work for something I can use, I’ll take it and run with it, and ignore the fancy stuff that’s on sale somewhere in my metropolitan area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"