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The rSmart Group, Inc. (rSmart) today announced they have been selected by Rhode Island Network for Educational Technology, Inc. (RINET) and its consortium membership made up of RI's K-12 schools and districts to implement and support the statewide initiative to make ePortfolios available to all K-12 students by 2008. RINET will support the rSmart OSP ePortfolio(TM) to improve RI districts' ability to monitor and measure student performance and progress while allowing individual students to demonstrate skills, knowledge and abilities.

Rodríguez congratulated committee members on playing an instrumental role in the successful selection, promotion, and implementation of Sakai as the replacement for WebCT at the University of Delaware.

Welcome to the workspace for the Horizon Project. This space is a place for the members of the Horizon Project Advisory Board to manage the process of selecting the topics for the 2009 Horizon Report, which will be co-published by the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) and will be released publicly January, 2009.

For A Farewell to Arms, we started with a lottery. Everyone chose a name of a junior and selected a second junior to follow. Besides choosing a quote to reflect on, students also read and commented on two classmates' blogs. The first effect: students talked about blogs during class, their own and their classmates'.

Many of us who integrate technology into our instruction have an especially difficult time staying focused on learning objectives and digging deeply enough for rigor, even if we don't like to admit it. It's the nature of our jobs. Since we work with entertaining, dynamic tools, it's too easy to become playful and veer off the track, overlooking the learning objectives.