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Welcome to the 2008 Comment Challenge! Challenging bloggers to become better blog citizens. Challenge runs from May 1 - 31, 2008. Coordinated by Sue Waters, Silvia Tolisano, Michele Martin and Kim Cofino Sponsored by coComment and Edublogs We would like to challenge participants to be better blog citizens tracking who is the commenter with: * The most comments on a wide range of blogs (not just the "top" edubloggers) * The most high quality comments that thoughtfully reflect on the topic * The comments that provoke and promote the most learning

Wed March 31 Podcast on Comics in the classroom

The Canada Year Book 2008, now online, is a fabulous reference on Canada's society and economy, written in accessible, plain language. Its articles, which include links to charts and tables, describe the latest trends in 31 current topics, including population, children and youth, families, energy, government, health, as well as ethnic diversity and immigration. The Canada Year Book is popular with secondary students and a useful reference for teachers of intermediate grades.

An inspiring first European overview A groundbreaking new European study, released today at a major EU conference hosted by the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, sheds light on how teachers use digital games in the classroom with their pupils for learning purposes. The conference was opened by the European Commissioner for Education and Culture, Jan Figel, underlining the importance of the study. It covers commercial as well as "serious" games. It was carried out by European Schoolnet, a network of 31 Ministries of Education, commissioned by the Interactive Software Federation of Europe (ISFE).

From Wes: These are my notes from Joseph Morelock's presentation, "Student as Prosumer: Content and Mobile Devices in 21st-Century Learning Environments" at the 21st Century Learning @ the West Lake Expo held Oct 31 - Nov 3, 2009 at Xi Hu, China, also known as West Lake. West Lake is in the center of Hangzhou, China, which is about an hour by bus southwest of Shanghai. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS.

"Video production is a favourite pursuit for students in developing project-based learning solutions to real-world challenges. But where can students get the music to flash up their videos and give them great sound? McCoy Productions has the answer!"