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Vinod Khosla talks about the next wave of education reform... there's a lot of best practices that we currently use mentioned here. Good, quick read.

Liking DocsTeach. Teachers will need to register to get full use. Number 4 on the list of what teachers can do is particularly interesting. Enjoy checking it out.

Thanks for sharing, Sheila. This is a must-read, especially for those working in Social Studies classrooms.

Good for us all to think about.  And good to know about an article like this.  I'm seeing a little backlash against "technology"  like this in various articles.  I'll try to gather them up.  

Thanks for sharing this, Rhys. I agree -- this is an important article for all of us to read.

Wow, what an interesting perspective. I'm inclined to believe some of those high-performing schools are excelling *despite* the lack of technology, but I definitely sensed the author's bias here...it almost seemed like she wanted to prove that 'fancy equipment' detracts from real learning.

Check out this online book about Google. You'll be able to share from the last page.

An easy read that can serve to introduce people to some of the technical aspects of the web and the foundations of cloud computing

I read the first ACOT report a long time ago... it was a great planning document. This looks like it would be too.

Draft National Education Technology Policy available for public comment

Thanks for sharing this, Sue. Important reading for ALL!!!!

Low tech solutions. Excellent ideas for you to consider.

Replacement for Kickyoutube.com We need to try this from within the DOE proxy and find out if we can copy URLs of youtube videos from a Google search index and paste them into here to download.  That would be nice.  

http://www.mdphs.org/-links-and-techno-resources/how-to-download-a-youtube-or-other-on-line-video FYI - The directions on this school website also has the same problems on not being able to read the youtube video while in school

Yeah -- I tried both of these options and can't get them to work. The proxy still picks up the words "youtube" in the URL and blocks it "Reason: The Websense category "Youtube and video Google" is filtered.". So they'll still need to download from home.

"a list of tips and tricks to help you get the most out of Google Docs."

Nice, quick, easy to read (and understand!) explanation of Google Docs, how they can be used,and how to do many common tasks - great to share with teachers to help them understand how Google Docs can be a powerful tool for them personally and professionally

Interesting read with some good links on how to monitor your online footprint.