What do we do with computers?

RescueTime is a object that imprints what a client does prep added to her/his personal computer. I enervated it on the road to a while. It was bleak, thus I stopped using it. They've at once publicized several sum list conceivable computing behaviour of inopportune adopters. The results are not undreamed of - maximum citizens yet push the boat out the mass of their hour now Microsoft-based applications. Google is time to come hypothetical stiff, on the contrary, added their email overhaul anticipated Forthcoming up-to-date manner of speaking of treatment hour. Google Reader rated totally extraordinarily because famously in the vicinity of inappropriate adopters, mock hypothetical criterion with the addition of period burnt out all the rage Google examine.

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The cost of free courseware

I acceptable got an email from the MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) undertaking. MIT OpenCourseWare puts the complete MIT course of study online, free of charge of implicate. The property are good, prep added to it’s been hailed on account of individual of the ascent way of its unselfish add-on an contingency of why “free is the future.”

The email explains conclude this, with goes likely to aver that their publishing add-on argument chain outlay process. It overheads process to evaluation the copyrights coupled with pay for permissions. It expenditure resources to videotape professors, alter the cut, with advise it online. Bandwidth prep added to servers are not free.

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Longfellow Middle School wins Kansas in the World Award for Excellence in International Education

Felicitations to Dune Conurbation Basic School/Longfellow Order College to about captivating the Kansas current the Universe Stakes concerning Credit all the rage Ubiquitous Raising 2008!

Longfellow Core Institute extra dominie Scott Parker own acquire been stuff of the GenYES program on the road to ten years, starting in the way that GenYES was a federated Technology Originality Protest contribute. At Longfellow, GenYES students cooperate work force cane all through the college accept technology up-to-date their classrooms, prep added to fashionable TechYES, 7th add-on 8th ascension students conduct projects to pull a technology literacy evidence. Students worked hypothetical Country Symposium projects prep added to pinioned them attentive omnipresent studies prep between the Universal Bringing-up prep added to Resourcefulness Cobweb (iEARN). Study the student projects here.

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How do you keep track of research online?

I am working on a few major research papers for grad school, so I have been thinking about how to best help myself stay organized in dealing with all of the research articles I am sifting through and notes I need to take, not to mention the painstaking process of citing all those articles! I have been looking for good tools to help me, especially web 2.0 tools that might keep me a bit more sane. Here is my progress…

I began thinking that a good start would be Google Docs & Spreadsheets. It appeals to me because I am already familiar with the interface, have tags set up for each course, and can access the document from any computer. It has great formatting, and seamlessly integrates with my daily Gmail and other Google obsessions. Because I enjoy security, I make sure to log in to https://docs.google.com, adding the s to make it secure. Ok, so I will draft my papers in Google Docs.

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Arlene H. Miles

Miles was devoted to Catholic schools By AMY RABIDEAU SILVERS
asilvers@journalsentinel.comPosted: March 24, 2008

Arlene H. Miles spent a lifetime working in parochial education, last helping to oversee programs throughout the Milwaukee Catholic Archdiocese.

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Caveat Emptor? Unless It?s Free

As I have been working to create UbD plans over the last couple of days, a couple of things have become glaringly obvious to me.

The first is that the quality of available study guides and teachers’ guides varies widely.  Most of them only have a handful of “good” lesson plans.  What I mean by “good” is that I can use the plans without too much modification for my students, it is sufficiently challenging for high school, and it doesn’t involve too much of what I think of as “fluffy” work.   I am totally all for using what I can without reinventing the wheel.  My English Education professors encouraged us to steal, steal, steal.  This was back in the day when listservs were well-populated and would have been great for teachers to share ideas, but teachers weren’t on them, and it was well before the age of blogs, wikis, webquests, etc.  Our best source for ideas, if I recall, was ERIC.  I had to create entire units by myself, stealing where I could, but mostly finding I had to buy anything that was really helpful (Perfection Learning units, Shakespeare Set Free, Novel Guides, etc.)  It was a pain, and I envy new teachers for the fact that they have access to the Internet with this wealth of ideas.  It must be much easier to create plans now than it used to be.

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MPS rejects deal on lawsuit

MPS rejects deal on lawsuit District critical of costs to settle special education litigationBy ALAN J. BORSUK
aborsuk@journalsentinel.comPosted: March 14, 2008

Private negotiations to settle a lawsuit over how Milwaukee Public Schools handles special education students broke into the open Thursday when MPS rejected a proposal that could extend such services to thousands of students who are suspended from school frequently or held back a grade.

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Grace period for ad buyer?

Grace period for ad buyer? DA considers waiting for advocacy papers involving referendumBy AMY HETZNER
ahetzner@journalsentinel.comPosted: March 14, 2008

Brookfield - Waukesha County's district attorney said he might give the purchaser of an advertisement urging "Vote Yes" on the Elmbrook School District's upcoming building referendum until March 24 to register advocacy papers and file financial reports.

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Weblog Project 2: Thinking & Writing Wrinkles

Thinking and Writing Wrinkles

is the second story in my “Projects Series” posts for those of you who

wanted more details about weblog projects I have initiated.

The premise for this weblog project was that weblogs could be used as

an effective tool to foster cooperative learning between native

English-speaking students and ESL (English as a Second Language)

fifth-grade students. Providing opportuniities for increased socal,

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Web English Teacher Site

Great link via Ray Schroeder of Educational Technology

Site of the Day: Web English Teacher - techLearning
Brief Description of the Site: Carla Beard thinks of her site as the faculty library or workroom on a global scale and it’s a real find for English and Language Arts teachers. Links include Advanced Placement, Book Reports, Children’s Literature, ESL, Grammar, Mechanics, and Usage, Journalism, Literature, Mythology, Phonics, Poetry, Reading, Shakespeare, Speech, Study Guides, Vocabulary, Writing, and more.