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Posted by Selena on her blog, learning elearning, May 24 2012. A brief discussion of several options in "classroom observation software," which records a "classroom walk-through" and then allows users to further analyze classroom interactions.

On the blog Kaironews: A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy. This post introduces the class discussion technique, Conversacolor.

Posted by The Innovative Educator on The innovative Educator (blog), August 18 2010. A look at real-world examples of 2.0 and social networking technologies enriching educators' interactions with their personal learning networks.

By Debra Viadero in Inside School Research, an Education Week blog, posted June 10 2009. Viadero describes the poster sessions at the annual federal Institute of Education Sciences, including a poster looking at the effectiveness of frequent quizzes for improving retention among 8th grade science students. For updated information on the study, follow the roediger tag.

By Ian Quillen of the Digital Education (blog) in Education Week, September 2 2010. This study suggests that "Algebra I teachers who were trained in and used a program that allowed them to monitor students' progress on graphing calculators led to significantly improved achievement by their students on a researcher-designed test." This blog post (and the video link) both stress that it is the combination of technology AND professional development that has provided these positive results. \nNOTE: First link to Summary of Findings is a Texas Instruments report (TI produces the graphing calculator that is part of the study). However, the study was conducted with outside consultants, including SRI.

Posted by Robert Jacobs in Education Innovation (blog) on September 2, 2010. The model for school change that Jacobs outlines looks very similar to the GSCC project, in that both look at what's working and how it might be replicated, focusing on the positive (solution) rather than the more negative (problem). NOTE: The Harvard Business Review article that Jacobs refers to was published in 2005.

By Wick Sloane, in a column called The Devil's Workshop in Inside Higher Ed, September 20 2010. Sloane, previously the CFO of a public university, has embedded himself as a writing teacher at Bunker Hill Community College. In this column, he ties completion to the many varied needs of under-served students, many of whom live in poverty.

Posted by Rick Davies to Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS (blog). No date, but note that this is updated from a May 2007 version published on another of Davies' blogs. From abstract, "Evolving storylines is a participatory method of developing multiple alternative views of the future, or interpretations of the past, in the form of branching stories." Davies describes the process, where each participant is both creating and evaluating the work of his/her peers.

On free4teachers.com blog, November 26, 2010. Many links to education based games sites and resources.

By Garr Reynolds on his blog Presentation Zen, Nov 28 2010. Reynolds interest is in presentations in general, but he feels that presentations are tied to teaching and learning, and so is interested in others' theories on education. He highlights a 30 minute presentation by physicist Dr. Tae about the difficulties in teaching in large (100s+) lecture halls, and the needs for connection and engagement in such settings.

By Laura Spencer, published in Freelance Folder, Jan 10, 2010. While targeted to freelancers, this article provides an excellent overview to Diigo features, and clear instructions for how to get started. It is current and all examples are for the current version of Diigo.

By David Pierce, published on Makeuseof.com, November 8, 2008. This post outlines the advantages of Diigo over Delicious (both social bookmarking tools).

By David Hayward and originally published in April 2009 Integrating Technology column of Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears; here it is part of the blog Expert Voices published by the National Sciences Digital Library. The post provides a great overview of Diigo, with advice on how middle school teachers can use it.

Published in ChemPaths, the Chemical Education Digital Library on Aug 11 2009. An overview of social bookmarking.

This blog entry relates to the stories in the Adding it up series. The blog entry includes some comments. See adding tag for related bookmarks.

Published in Spectrum > Mobile Learning, Libraries, And Technologies, March 12, 2009. "MLE-Moodle is an out-of-the-box mobile Learning (mLearning) system, designed for mobile phones." With MCNC in particular, we've discussed how it might be helpful to be able to engage students/faculty/administrators in Polilogue via mobile phone in addition to computer.

By Joshua Kim of the blog BlogU, part of Inside Higher Ed, March 29, 2010. Kim reflects on the more successful online learning experiences that he's taken part in, and points to three attributes that made these experiences successful. The comments section also provides some interesting links.

By Beth Fertig on WNYC News. Main page with links to full series.

By Billie Hara, as part of the ProfHacker column in The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 27 2011. This instructor posits that when students say "Just tell me what you want" (for this assignment), it might mean that the professor has proved him/herself unclear or "untrustworthy" in the course of the semester. There are also interesting comments at the end of the article.

on Stepcase Lifehack blog