educators

mapping about pedagogic 2.0 (spanish)/pedagogia 2.0

The implications for instruction are clear: The teacher becomes more a manager of students' projects and learning processes than a direct instructor. Students themselves take on more of the responsibility of instructing others as they work in project-based teams.

If enough educators -- and noneducators -- realize that there are serious flaws in the way we evaluate our schools, and that those flaws erode educational quality, there's a chance we can stop this absurdity.

A very cool visual that shows how those in your network connects with each other.

The Shoah Foundation and the Anti-Defamation League have joined Court TV to create this classroom lesson that teaches about the effects and consequences of bigotry and intolerance.

Cool website from a professional developer in australia with a lot of links to websites he's tested.

Cool websites.

yWriter is a free, highly rated, novel writing program that I found through a very complimentary review in PC Magazine. It is for the PC. Just save your file as an RTF with chapter headings and it will import right into ywriter.

This fascinating tool for writing novels has other applications for writing books with chapters.

The online word processor from Adobe. This is one to watch because of testing and future compatibility with Adobe Air, a "plugin" that will let you take things offline and be online, although the word processor runs in a web browser. We are much closer to this environment.

Online word processor from adobe. Future versions plan to integrate Adobe Air.

Microsoft Office Live - free site for online extension to microsoft. Office Live Small business gives you a free website and other things to manage your business.

Microsoft Office live is an online extension of Microsoft Office. I'm going to test this so that I can compare to other services. My students told me today, "If you have us test and compare and contrast, you should at least look at this as well." OK, I'm going in. If you have Word on site it could be a place to collaborate with those who want a familiar environment. I'll let you know! (Oh, and this also links to Office Live Small Business to create professional websites and manage your business. Interesting.

A report about the positive impact blogging has on student writing.

Understand Media Podcast Subscribe to our weekly podcast for information about understanding media, and lessons about media literacy. Subscribe via iTunes Alternately, you can also download the XML file directly and then load it into your podcast retrieval service.

A curriculum all set up for lazyteachers everywhere.

Excellent post discussing free speech rights of public employees.

Great discussion emerging on Jon Becker's blog about free speech and blogging of public employees. I learned as much from the comments as the blog post itself.

The conversation that has been going on around Twitter both here and here has lead to other e-mails and discussions around building networks and specifically how do you get people to comment on your blog? The problem is….you can't make people comment. What you can do is write compelling blog posts that make people want to leave comments. How do you do that….I'm not sure.

Climate Change and Tropical Forests Q & A Video Clips Connections and Remedies Dr, John Holdren, Director, Woods Hole Research CenterDr. Daniel Nepstad, Senior Scientist, Head of Amazon Project, Woods Hole Reseach Center Spring 2008 Erpf Evening Lecture April 2008

hilarious :41 clip from You Tube - teacher ranting about doing "everything" - watch it!

Goes over the definitions for "21st century skills" as several groups define it.