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The Australian Virtual Worlds Workshop 2008 aims to present a balanced overview of online virtual worlds for educators, professionals and academics. Important Dates * Submissions Open: June 2nd 2008 * Submission Deadline: August 1st 2008 * Email Notification: September 15th 2008 * Workshop Dates: 28th and 29th November 2008

most popular Top 10's that have published in 2008

I'm going to be listing my choices for The Best Online Learning Games - 2008 within this post, starting from the twentieth-ranked one and ending with my number-one choice.

Welcome to Technorati's State of the Blogosphere 2008 report, which will be released in five consecutive daily segments.

"What Makes a Great Teacher? Image credit: Veronika Lukasova Also in our Special Report: National: "How America Can Rise Again" Is the nation in terminal decline? Not necessarily. But securing the future will require fixing a system that has become a joke. Video: "One Nation, On Edge" James Fallows talks to Atlantic editor James Bennet about a uniquely American tradition-cycles of despair followed by triumphant rebirths. Interactive Graphic: "The State of the Union Is ..." ... thrifty, overextended, admired, twitchy, filthy, and clean: the nation in numbers. By Rachael Brown Chart: "The Happiness Index" Times were tough in 2009. But according to a cool Facebook app, people were happier. By Justin Miller On August 25, 2008, two little boys walked into public elementary schools in Southeast Washington, D.C. Both boys were African American fifth-graders. The previous spring, both had tested below grade level in math. One walked into Kimball Elementary School and climbed the stairs to Mr. William Taylor's math classroom, a tidy, powder-blue space in which neither the clocks nor most of the electrical outlets worked. The other walked into a very similar classroom a mile away at Plummer Elementary School. In both schools, more than 80 percent of the children received free or reduced-price lunches. At night, all the children went home to the same urban ecosystem, a zip code in which almost a quarter of the families lived below the poverty line and a police district in which somebody was murdered every week or so. Video: Four teachers in Four different classrooms demonstrate methods that work (Courtesy of Teach for America's video archive, available in February at teachingasleadership.org) At the end of the school year, both little boys took the same standardized test given at all D.C. public schools-not a perfect test of their learning, to be sure, but a relatively objective one (and, it's worth noting, not a very hard one). After a year in Mr. Taylo

Presented at the University of Manitoba June 17th 2008. (for those of you waiting for the Library of Congress presentation,

Description by Grainne Conole of mapping eLearning tools or initiatives to pedagogical frameworks.

This is a survey we are doing for our podcast the EdTechcrew, about software we cannot live without. Please take the time to fill it in - all results will be made available after May 2008.

To increase understanding about the country of China and its culture in the context of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. To facilitate student exploration of the human rights issues surrounding China and the Olympic Games.

I've been musing for a while on some of my thoughts on the 'one photo a day' project that I've been taking part in since 1st January 2008. Here are some tips you may find useful.

"On December 10th 1989 the first TAC commercial went to air. In that year the road toll was 776; by last year 2008 it had fallen to 303. A five minute retrospective of the road safety campaigns produced by the TAC over the last 20 years has been compiled. The montage features iconic scenes and images from commercials that have helped change they way we drive, all edited to the moving song Everybody Hurts by REM"

The Code of Conduct has been developed for and by the Victorian teaching profession. It identifies a set of principles, which describe the professional conduct, personal conduct and professional competence expected of a teacher by their colleagues and the community

This research paper contains information about various alarming and sensational, but out-of-date, false and/or misleading 'statistics' concerning the prevalence of 'child pornography' material on Internet Web sites, etc., which appeared in Australian media reports/articles, government agency reports, etc., in 2008 and 2009.