New Social Networking Site Helps Teachers Create and Share Lessons

Saturday, 13 February 2010, 8:39 | Category : The Web 2.0 Teacher
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This past week I finally had a chance to mess around with the curriculum sharing platform BetterLesson, and I thought I’d share my thoughts.
The new social networking site is designed to help teachers create, organize and share lesson plans. Unlike traditional curriculum sharing websites, BetterLesson incorporates a unique curriculum organizing and filing system that enables [...]

Using Cloud Computing to Improve School Communication

Thursday, 28 January 2010, 13:01 | Category : The Digital Principal
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If schools are going to use technology to improve organizational processes, it’s important their leaders consider moving many of the school’s daily operations onto a cloud-based network. This enables the sort of communication that can only be accomplished by utilizing theĀ  networking and information sharing power of a cloud system. I enjoyed a post on [...]

Netbooks and School

Using laptops in the classroom is not a new idea. It has been discussed and implemented in many situations. The barrier for many classrooms, in implementing this technology, is the price of the average laptop, which has remained between $600 – $1,0000 until very recently. Over the past six months, the number of inexpensive netbook [...]