Excellent resource for accessibility resources.

This article is about how colleges and universities are getting into the high school education business via online "high schools" operated under their name but not necessarily with their staff. Tuition is $15,000 plus.  

Some guidelines for evaluating e games for the classroom and research methods.

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06 Nov 11

Donna Evans
New York Times article by Trip Gabriel and Matt Richtel says software promises epic results yet, so far, has failed to show proven results and "no discernible effects" on tests scores.
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Response to this month's piece in Wired Magazine titled:  Why Johnny Can't Search.  

Glogsteredu is a free product that allows students to make digital poster instead of classic cardboard. Extremely engaging for students.  Unlike cardboard, the images, words, sound clips, video act as a portal to take the viewing to more information. So if I click on an author's image, might see a video of her talking about a book, or a list of other works, etc.

Our school bought this and I always use it when students are on the computers in the Media Center or labs.  I stopped a lot of off-task work, inappropriate surfing, bullying, and even caught a student opening another teacher's grade book. It's an excellent monitory tool.

Backpackit is very helpful for adults managing projects in an organization but it would  also be very helpful for students working on group projects at school.  My school's program emphasizes group projects and work and I recommended this program to our Media Specialist as a possible purchase for next year to help students manage all their work.

The best tool for research on the market whether students are novice or expert, in my opinion. I use it with my 6th grade students  to help them research effectively, take notes, and format bibliographies.  They love it and so do I. Everything is online, no lost notes! When the papers are turned in, I electronically collect the notes cards and all other information online.  Our school just bought access to it.

Donald Clark's blog, Big Dog, Little Dog, caught my eye with its title a reference to the children's book with the same title, but there is nothing childish about this blog. Clark is a learning designer and consultant who put together this e-learning aggregator of cutting-edge, provocative, and useful blog post on the web. In addition to the informative and entertaining posts, he includes a wonderful blog roll worth checking out. Play with the big dogs and check it out.