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Rainy’s
29-Jun-06
A cool & free little organizer. I like the Google Calendar, but sometimes the web is so slowwwww.
Odeo Studio
29-Jun-06
Free podcasting service and free posting. And it’s easy. Limit of 1 hour a month.
Weblogg-ed » Moodle Does Blogs
29-Jun-06
Weblogg-ed » Moodle Does Blogs
Moodle Does Blogs
(via Tim Wilson) So Moodle released 1.6 yesterday with a blog feature that I think is a pretty good start though I wish the following options were available per post instead of globally per blog:
* The World can read entries set to be world-accessible
* All site users can see all blog entries
* Users can only see blogs for people who share a course
* Users can only see blogs for people who share a group
* Users can only see their own blog
Even more interesting, I think, is the discussion that the community has had around how blogs should function in Moodle. Definitely worth taking a few minutes to read the vision of how all of Moodle’s component systems work to supplement the blogging experience instead of combining it into one tool. (For instance, Moodle blogs will not support comments.)
Regardless, I love seeing Moddle moving in this direction, and I love the thoughtful approach the community is taking.
ASCD Blog: Doing Your Om-work
29-Jun-06
On a broader scale, yoga is catching tread with more and more schools and educators. Summers, however, is more concerned with pedagogy than popularity, and she thinks the tenets of yoga practice make just as much sense applied in the classroom, as they do on a sticky mat.
A Third of U.S. Dropouts Never Reach 10th Grade – New York Times
WASHINGTON, June 20 — More than a third of high school dropouts across the nation leave school without ever going beyond the ninth grade, according to a report released here on Tuesday.The report, “Diplomas Count: An Essential Guide to Graduation Rates and Policies,” by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center of Education Week newspaper, also estimated a 39 percent graduation rate for students in New York City, 25 percent lower than the city has publicly reported.
$5000 Award
29-Jun-06
The American Library Association awards grants of $5,000 for the preparation and publication of popular or scholarly reading lists, indexes, and other guides to library resources that will be useful to users of all types of libraries. The deadline for applications is November 6. For more information visit www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=grantfellowship&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=124388.
Web Watch: This Is Your Brain Online
“Researchers at the University of Connecticut want to change that. In a $1.8 million, three-year study, Professor Donald J. Leu is leading a team that’s investigating exactly how kids learn online. In studying the “new literacies” needed to navigate the Internet, Leu’s team has found that most students have a tough time reading critically and distinguishing legitimate information from the Internet’s vast flotsam and jetsam.”
“Every teacher has likely been saved, at one time or another, by lesson plans that come from somewhere other than his or her own head —the Internet, a teachers’ guide, another teacher. But when the source is a close colleague, things can get dicey. Junior High School Teacher recently blogged about the frustration she felt when another teacher—who had been a student teacher in her own classroom a few years ago—commandeered key parts of a beloved poetry unit (right down to the same poems as examples) to use in her class. Then, when the 7th grade students from that teacher’s class got to JHS Teacher’s 8th grade class the next year, they complained that they’d already done the unit. JHS poses this very valid question:How do we go about differentiating between ripping off another teacher’s lessons, and sharing our expertise? I know I’ve used things almost word-for-word I’ve found on-line or which other teachers have given me. I’m also quite perturbed right now about my poetry unit. Where do you draw the line? Should there be a line?
Sounds like a good issue for teachers to puzzle over during the summer months.”