Suspicious Behavior - 1 views
SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOR 08/04/2011 Can teachers be trusted to use social media appropriately? According to a new Missouri law, apparently not. Missouri Senate Bill 54 specifies that, "No teache...
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Women in STEM: An Opportunity and An Imperative - 1 views
http://www.commerce.gov/blog/2011/08/03/women-stem-opportunity-and-imperative Women in STEM: An Opportunity and An Imperative Submitted on August 3, 2011 - 11:30am Categories: Education Jobs Mark...
The Library of Congress Teacher Conference Schedule for Early 2012 - 1 views
The Library of Congress Teacher Conference Schedule for Early 2012 January 4th, 2012 by Anne Savage This post comes to us from the 2011-2012 Library of Congress Teacher in Residence, Earnestine Sw...
Principals Call for Mobile and Social Technologies in Schools -- THE Journal - 0 views
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Claude Almansi on 27 May 11" * By David Nagel * 05/23/11 The National Association of Secondary School Principals is looking to change the conversation about mobile computing and social media in schools. The group's board of directors recently released a position statement advocating greater access to and acceptance of technologies like smart phones and social networking sites in educational institutions. The statement characterized mobile and social technologies as both crises and opportunities for leaders, saying confusion among many principals has to date led many school leaders to knee-jerk policy decisions, such as outright bans on specific technologies. But these bans, in addition to being misguided, have been ineffective."
dotSUB Blog » Blog Archive » Translation Crowdsourcing - 0 views
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"June 26, 2011, 6:16 pm by dotSUB This is a guest post by Kirti Vashee, VP Enterprise Translation Sales at Asia Online and member of dotSUB's Board of Advisors. You can also read Kirti's blog eMpTy Pages, where he writes about translation technology, localization and collaboration. The phenomena of a crowd or community stepping forward and doing real translation work, often for no direct financial compensation is something that troubles many in the professional translation world. Mostly because they see this activity as work being taken away from legitimate professionals or they see it as a ploy to reduce prices. While in some cases their fears may actually be justified, in the most successful uses of this approach I think it is clear that this is not true.If we look at some of the most successful examples of crowdsourced translation in practice, we can see that they have many if not all of the following elements in common."
Beginning Instructional Authoring: Why C.R.A.P. Is Exactly What's Needed (Part 1) by Pa... - 0 views
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Patty Shank, July 12, 2011 "A lot of eLearning would look better if it looked like C.R.A.P. Really. No, I'm not making a scatological reference - I mean the four overarching principles of visual design: Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity. "
Personalized Learning - 3 views
http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/pdfs/Infographic_PersonalizedLearning2012.pdf ( Infograph) Mapping a Personalized Learning Journey - K-12 Students and Parents Connects the Dots with Digital ...
California State U. Report Warns of Accessibility Issues in Google Services - Wired Cam... - 0 views
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"June 23, 2011, 6:20 pm By Jie Jenny Zou California State University's Accessible Technology Initiative suggests in a report released this week that universities limit their campuswide use of Google's free Web services based on what it calls a variety of inaccessibility issues for the blind and those with other disabilities. The report, "ATI Google Apps Accessibility Evaluation," looked at the accessibility of Google Apps for Education, a free software suite available to colleges and elementary and secondary schools. Hundreds of colleges have adopted Google Apps as their official campus e-mail and communication service for students."
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for update to posts about Google Apps
Survey: Majority Say U.S. Teachers Underpaid - 1 views
Survey: Majority Say U.S. Teachers Underpaid By Liana Heitin on January 5, 2012 11:56 AM More than half of Americans believe that U.S. teachers are underpaid, according to a national telephone sur...
Canadians Move to Improve Captioning Standards for English and French TV Broadcasts | C... - 0 views
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"August 15, 2011. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has begun a rulemaking to strengthen and expand their current TV closed captioning standards for both English TV and French TV broadcasts. However, they will not be looking at standards for digital and new media platforms in this process. The CRTC seeks input on:"
When Images "Lie": Critical Visual Literacy | Digital Is ... - 0 views
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Collected by Danielle Nicole DeVoss on Mar 09 11 "What does it mean to be "visually" literate? How can we encourage students to be more deliberate and careful in how they look at the images that circulate in today's digital culture? (...) What I've included here are some historical examples and discussion points, some contemporary examples and discussion points, and some ways to educate ourselves and to engage students in critical visual literacy."
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Not really a "breaking news" bookmark, but shared on the strength of Pound's "Culture is news that remains news".
Transforming Higher Education with IT - 2 views
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2012 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Information Technology and Innovation Foundation 1101 K Street NW (Suite 610A) Washington, DC 20005 President Obama recently an...
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