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ACTEM Conference

August 18, 2007 | 2 Comments

The 2007 Association for Computer Technology Educators Conference is October 11 and 12 in Augusta. The keynote will be by Will Richardson. This is a great conference with many sessions geared for teachers in the classroom.

Aug

18

Listen and Learn

August 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I ran across this looking at the PBS Teacher Previews. What a resource!
Listen and Learn
The WGBH Forum Network Offers On-Demand Lectures from World-Renowned Scholars Online
Grades 6-8 / 9-12
Educators have an audio and video library of scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy makers and community leaders at their fingertips with the WGBH Forum Network, a free resource [...]

Aug

18

Schoolboards: net dangers over-rated; bring social networks to school

August 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

August 7, 2007
By David Cassel
The internet isn’t as dangerous as people think, and teachers should let students use social networks at school.
That’s the surprising new recommendation from the National School Boards Association — a not-for-profit organization representing 95,000 school board members — in a new study funded by Microsoft, News Corporation, and Verizon. See the [...]