"How often do we read about the importance of teachers in education? It must be every day, it seems. We are told about 'strong empirical evidence that teachers are the most important school-based determinant of student achievement' again and again."
This duplicates quite a lot of the functionality of Panopto, but the student Moodle video assignment (starts @3:25) looks nice. Kaltura is fundamentally an open source streaming server.
9 year old Martha Payne's blog about her school dinners. Went viral and then some when the local council tried to ban her taking photos of her meals. Social media did the rest.
"Taking first steps in the Twitterverse can be a nerve-wrecking experience with new users unsure what thoughts to tweet to the world. Here, Paul André, Michael Bernstein and Kurt Luther attempt to fill the void and give some insights into what makes interesting and valuable microblog content."
Actually doesn't give any real insights about 'academic' content - the first comment makes that point well. Perhaps the full paper is better.
Very interesting article highlighting the dramatic change in teenage writing over the years. Nowadays we make no more grammatical errors than we did 100 years ago, but what we write is much longer and more complex.
"What if teachers could fork educational materials just like software developers fork code? Imagine if educators far and wide could collaborate on curriculums beyond their school, district, or university. Imagine a revolutionized education system by way of the open source model. Well, the future is now."