Amen to this. Please...PLEASE, I'm begging you, consider non-MS Office formats. I hate waiting 15 seconds for Word to launch just to read a text document. Web browsers are great at rendering text. Blogs are so much more interactive.
Pretty sure part of why people aren't into the whole curating the internet thing is that it seems overwhelming. It isn't - read this, then go find good stuff and share it with the rest of us.
Please read this. We've been focusing our assessment efforts on grading, and vice versa. Is grading really how we want to show that we value 'responsible action'?
Seth Godin is one of, if not the, most read business blogger - mostly because he's sharp and says a lot with a little. This is his book on education. If you like Sir Ken Robinson, you'll like this.
Can't tell you how many times I've had kids say 'I'm not sure how to find the equation' this year, without any clue as to why an equation (model) would be useful. They're not connecting math to using math.