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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 [...]

Over the past five years, the response of most school administrators to social networking sites– YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, etc.– is simply to restrict access on campus.  In a recent piece in Slate, Nicholas Bramble argues it’s time to open access to these sites. Rather than worry about the potential, and often times very serious, concerns [...]

In an attempt to compete with more open social networking platforms like Twitter, Facebook’s management made an important and very controversial decision in December to change the privacy settings for the popular social networking site. In a recent piece in ReadWriteWeb, Sarah Perez makes a few helpful recommendations users should take to protect their privacy [...]

Man, I guess Twitter really is a brain drain! By the way, I just woke up, and I guess I should do some work…

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 [...]