‘My Access’ Helps Students Write– Trent Toone, Standard Net
Teacher’s Worries Blossom into District’s Online Program– Eva-Marie Ayala, Star-Telegram
Competition Seeks Ways to Transform Learning– eSchool News
10.5M Pre K-12 Students to Take Online Course by 2014– Michael Horn, Disrupting Class
ELearning Conferences– Tony Karrer, eLearning Technology
Facebook has become an essential tool for young adults to stay in contact with friends and family and to create a sense of community with their peers. For school administrators, then, utilizing Facebook to improve communication and to create an interactive experience for their school community only makes sense.
While many secondary schools continue to utilize [...]
Academics Hope History in Video Games Spurs Interest– John Gaudiosi, WaPo
The School of One– Time
PC Trends in Education: Thin Is In– eSchool News
Program Puts Educational Videos Online and on TV– Barb Berggoetz, IndyStar.com
Online Learning and the Need for Social Opportunities– Michael Horn, Disrupting Class
A powerful function of Twitter is its immediacy. Twitter provides immediate access to a wealth of information. Updates from friends, news, educational topics, and even professional development are but a few of items that are constantly streaming through the Twitter timeline. Today I’d like to focus on news and explain how taking advantage of trending [...]
Once an educator has established an account on Twitter, the next question I generally hear is, “How do I find interesting people to follow?”. This is a great question and there are three techniques you can use to locate great people to follow. With Twitter’s recent addition of lists, you can separate the tweets of [...]
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