The Library of Congress is launching a campaign today to create the World Digital Library, an online collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps, posters, stamps and other materials from its holdings and those of other national libraries that would be freely accessible for viewing by anyone, anywhere with Internet access…
If you aren’t reading the news coming from techlearing.com I suggest you start.
I saw this news today and wanted to give a personal congratulation to Mr. Mangus. Mr. Mangus has a completely textbook-less classroom and was honored by receiving the No Child Left Behind Act American Star of Teaching …
A web site that I was unaware of just popped up on my radar screen. educause.edu
A quick search for the word blog returned some great results. An informative site worth a look.
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In the Moodle class I am running Alicia Lewis, a good friend, and co-instructor in the course, gave me a bad time about playing my beloved game Flight Simulator. This conversation started after reading Marc Penskys Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants that I had the class read. I thought Id post …
Some talk going on about edublog.org being blocked by servers. It isnt being blocked here in China yet. What a great tool for educators and students. Built on the open-source WordPress blogging program the site is a great place for educators and students a like to get their blogs up and …
Back in Shanghai after 3 wonderful days in Beijing highlighted by a 4 hour walk on the Great Wall that both my wife and I are paying for today. I did not touch a computer or get on the Internet all 3 days, …
Happy Thanksgiving to those of you celebrating. My wife and I leave later today for Beijing to have Beijing Duck for our Thanksgiving dinner. Hopefully Ill have some great pictures to share with you all when I return.
All this talk about staff development has my head spinning, and I …
The ‘millennials’ usher in a new era
My friend just sent me this link. Go read it right now. I’m putting it here for my own reference.
Some great quotes/research:
By only their seventh birthday, most children in the United States will have talked on a cell phone, played a …
I never knew I had such a following on my blog until that last post on NETS 2.0. The interesting thing for me is, I wrote that about the same time David Warlick was writing about Conversations and Will Richardson was writing about connective writing. Now Im trying …
