This would be a great tool to assist special educators and special education teams including parents in communicating regularly. It also visually shows the progress on IEP goals. It would make progress monitoring so much easier. It would also encourage measurable goals and documentation.
Goalbook brings a student's team around their individual learning plan
Discusses how to enhance the classroom by using a discussion board in a skills-based course by allowing students the chance to use information literacy skills.
This article provides practical suggestions for creating meaningful discussion boards/discussions in courses that rely on skills, such as math, or accounting courses.
This article offers insight into the process of appropriately constructing class discussions online. It cautions that discussions should be based on critical thinking than on sharing facts or answers. The author notes that problems can result if a student posts incorrect information and then other students respond thinking that it is correct.
November 11, 2010 Making Online Discussion Boards Work for Skills-Based Courses By: Rob Kelly
In this article, an accounting teacher described how he used online discussion boards for study groups in his course. I appreciated this suggestion...online "study groups" could be a great way to motivate students to study and also for faculty to monitor their studying. Teachers could step in to clarify information a group appears to be confused about based on their discussion strand.
This article uses well researched data to support the use of interactive white boards such as Promethean or Mimio. It concludes that use by experienced teachers can increase student achievement by allowing teachers to better chunk and scaffold information and better monitor student progress.
Good article on teaching students how to be decent digital citizens. Emphasis on parental involvement too.
I found this interesting as we struggle with the admin's decision to ban mobile devices in the middle school. This article gives helpful advice on communicating with students on how to monitor and use the devices appropriately and safely.