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Betrayed - Why Public Education Is Failing Betrayed is a new online chat forum for parents, teachers and community members to offer their thoughts on what's wrong with public education and how to make it work better for the students. The comments within are based on extensive research by Laurie H. Rogers. If you would like to learn more about this research, please contact Laurie Rogers at wlroge@comcast.net.

Facing shrinking enrollment and in danger of closing its doors, in 2007, the Newton (KS) School District reestablished Newton as a public charter school. Bolstered by Charter School Program funds from the U.S. Department of Education, the Walton 21st Century Rural Life Center became the first public school in the nation to completely incorporate agriculture into its elementary classrooms and curricula.

Why Diigo Rocks! When you save to Diigo your saves go anywhere because they are saved to the cloud. Sounds mystical doesn't it? The social part is because you can make your saves public and share the wealth of knowledge with others. Say you are a science teacher. Your fellow science colleagues can go and view your saves because you have made them public.

"Texas GOP Declares: "No More Teaching of 'Critical Thinking Skills' in Texas Public Schools" "

5 Good Places for Students to Find Public Domain Images

About Edmodo is a private micro-blogging platform built for use by teachers and students for use in the classroom. The problem with traditional web 2.0 tools in a k-12 classroom environment is concerns over privacy of the students. Edmodo has been built with the privacy of students in mind. Edmodo provides a way for teachers and students to share notes, links, and files. Teachers also have the ability to send, alerts, events, and assignments to students. Edmodo also has a public component built by allowing at the teachers discretion to post any item to a public timeline at the teacher's discretion.

"A Complete List of Online Math Resources Many people share a common fear- math. Math anxiety is rampant everywhere from public schools all the way to college courses. One of the best ways to improve your math skills while addressing your anxiety is simply to practice. "

One of the federal requirements we face in public schools receiving E-Rate is the teaching of Digital Citizenship and Internet Safety to students.  This is a solid guide to introduce and begin Digital Footprint discussion. 

"Kansas Online Learning Program (KOLP) is an online public school open to all full time kindergarten through 12th grade students living anywhere in Kansas. The program is provided through Centre School District and is tuition free for Kansas families. KOLP also offers an Adult Learning that is open to all Kansas residents who have not received their high school diploma. Students enrolled in the KOLP receive:"

"The Khan Academy has been in the education news lately but it's not the kind of publicity that its founder, Salman Khan, would have chosen if given a choice."

Issu du monde éducatif, Framasoft est un réseau de sites web collaboratifs à géométrie variable dont le dénominateur commun est le logiciel libre et son état d'esprit. Il vise à diffuser le logiciel libre et à le faire connaître auprès du plus large public.

Who is "Reber", anyway? David Reber, a.k.a. - "me". I am a native of Lawrence, Kansas. Alumnus of Hillcrest Elementary School, West Junior High School, Lawrence High School, and The University of Kansas. I hold a BS in Biology from KU, an MS in Science Education from Emporia State University, and a Kansas Teaching License for high school Biology and General Science. I began teaching in Lawrence Public Schools in 1996. After one year at Lawrence High School, I transferred to Free State High School for it's inaugural year in 1997 and have taught there ever since. Courses I've taught include Biology, Advanced Placement Biology, Applied Biology, Plant and Animal Biology, Ecology and Environmental Science, Human Anatomy and Physiology, Human Biology, General Chemistry, and Science Explorations.

"The debates about schools and social media are a subject of great public and policy interests. In reality, the debate has been shaped by one key fact: the almost universal decision by school administrators to block social media. Because social media is such a big part of many students social lives, cultural identities, and informal learning networks schools actually find themselves grappling with social media everyday but often from a defensive posture-reacting to student disputes that play out over social media or policing rather than engaging student's social media behaviors."

"Chicago Public Schools' is lifting a ban on YouTube as part of its efforts to expand digital learning in the classroom."

Public v. Private Funding of the Arts The defunding of the Arts Commission by Governor Brownback has left Kansas as the only state with out federal funding for the arts. This decision has prompted a discussion among Kansans as to whether it is appropriate for funding of the arts to come from the public sector or if it should only be privately funded.

Radio France International is a French public radio station emitting in all francophone countries - the French equivalent to BBC International. It also proposes material in French and English about France, Europe and Africa. Lots of resources from French speaking African countries to change a little bit from the old Paris / baguette / Marie Antoinette combo...

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File-sharing is a complicated beast. Some files are too big to send in emails; some need to be seen by a lot of people; some need to be private; some should be public. There are a ton of different applications that want to be the host for all of your files, but drop.io stands ahead of the pack. At its simplest, drop.io is a place to store files on the Internet. You create "drops" filled with files, photos, audio, video and more that you can share with other people. There's a 100MB limit on a given drop, but you can purchase more space if you want. Typically, though, 100MB is plenty- that's an awful lot of PDFs and Word documents.