Here is an article that I got from the NCTE Inbox newsletter that you might be able to use as you plan for curriculum revisions. Although it relies on the globalization fear as its basis, the survey shows that 2/3 of voters want these skills taught now. eSchool News online – Voters urge teaching of [...]
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Two sets of colleagues from the NWP will be featured this week in the K12 Online Conference. Wednesday, Paul, Susan, Lee, and Chris are doing a session on “Building Online Communities for Youth.” You can catch the conversation that I moderated for their planning on the TTT website. Tomorrow, Kevin and Bonnie will be presenting [...]
Have I mentioned before that I love Wikispaces? If not, you are hearing it now: Wikispaces Blog » Blog Archive » Who Are You and What Are You Doing? Who Are You and What Are You Doing? October 2nd, 2007 by sarah In our recent mailing, we asked to hear from you – how you [...]
Along with the K12Online Conference, here is another unique opportunity for online participation in the month of October. It was sent to me by Jeff from Sparkpr on behalf of The Economist. Get in there and vote, the check out the debate! Hi Troy – Jeff here from Sparkpr for The Economist. I saw your [...]
Recently, I was contacted by Nick from ProProfs.com [corrected link on 10/9/07] about their SAT preparation wiki and resources. While it is a for-profit enterprise, ProProfs invites teachers and professors to blog and compose wiki pages that offer free SAT help, help that is often unaffordable for many students. To that end, I found the [...]
Kevin reminded me that the K12 Online Conference begins this week. I will be inviting my pre-service teachers to check it out this week and encourage others to pass along the news, too. From their website: K12 Online Conference 2007 Welcome to the K-12 Online Conference!The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the [...]
Today, Kathy Yancey gave the keynote and the MCTE 2007 Fall Conference in Lansing, MI. Here are notes from the session. Yancey began by asking us to think about what literacy is and a five minute discussion among the audience began the session. An image of tectonic plates from the public domain with the idea [...]
Last month, TechCruch featured a story on a new web-based tutoring service, PrepMe. I was contacted by Calvin Truong, PrepMe’s Operations Manager about writing a post on the service here in my blog. From the TechCrunch review, it sounds like a different take on the model of submitting a piece of writing only to have [...]
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