Defining 21st Century Literacies
Last night, as my family and I watched the evening news (yes, sometimes I get to control the remote), my wife and daughter bemoaned the fact that there are now bookless libraries.
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SETDA Urges NAGB To Reconsider Tech Literacy Test -- THE Journal
Dave Nagel shares a move by NAGB to change the technology literacy test. Every district in Texas, if not the nation, is trying to figure out the best way to assess students, whethe
DiigoNotes - Ubuntu Karmic Encrypts Home Directory
Truly a nerd feature right now, I'm kind of enthused to see this kind of encryption built in. Of course, I still like TrueCrypt as the cross platform solution. But an encrypted hom
Thesaurus in UbuntuLinux
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Conservatives--My Apologies!
Surprisingly, my low key posting
Diigo-Notes: How journalism works today. Seventeen declarations.
Slashdot highlighted this new manifesto related to Journalism. Many of the ideas are ones edubloggers are familiar with but...it never hurts to revisit ideas that reflect fundament
DiigoNotes - Letter from Jonathan King to Boston Globe (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out)
Letter from Jonathan King to Boston Globe (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out) the current state policy, which focuses on chasing an ar
DiigoNotes - The NCTE Definition of 21st Century Literacies
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Format Bigots a la Doug Johnson
Thanks to Doug Johnson for a great presentation on Format Bigotry.... Format bigotry View more [presentations]
12 tips to a write a "GREAT" NECC proposal every time (Howie DiBlasi)
Great stuff worth sharing from: Howie & Joan DiBlasi Ready Set GO !!!! Call for participation Starting September 9, 2009. I have reviewed conference submi
2010 TED Fellows
I received the following email.... The TED Conference has begun the search for 2010 TED Fellows. Please help us reach interested candidates by sharing the following announcement
College Course Resource
You know you've arrived (somewhere) when you find incoming links to your blog from a college course: Activity 3.1 Readings on Research in Distance Education Readings: \
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Online Instructors Training Part 1
A few months ago, one of my team and I took the time to research some of the different Texas Virtual School Network (TxVSN) providers. Here's the table we developed: The table isn'
President Obama's Education Talk
Like others, I've been a bit disgusted with the tone of the conversations around President Obama's Education Talk. So, let me get some quick points down so you'll know where I stan
Application Launchers for Your Computer
While most folks are accustomed to going to START:PROGRAMS, then selecting their program on
Discovery - Scott Sigler
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Find Your FOSS Self
From Matt Montaigne: On Tuesday of this past week we had our first "Linux Lab Open House." We invited stu
PBWorks Tips
Thanks to @diben (Diana Benner) for finding and sharing these PBWorks related tips available on the Internet but going into my "PBWorks file".... How to Change the Frontpage Name
TwitterEduStream - Top 7 Favorites from Twitter
Below are a few of my favorites from the TwitterEduStream of ideas, links and info flowing through my various Twitter clients...these just jumped out at me: 1. Five Tips for Helpin
Revisiting Slithereens
One of my favorite games and my daughter, who at the time, sat o
Sell Your Tweet for Blackberry App
Danny Maas reports that he traded a single tweet fo