Walden – Commencement I’m thinking about doing this in January. The end of my Ph.D. program was a bit anti-climactic. I added my credentials to my bio and cards etc, but there was no party, no vacation, no new hobby – with Clark now I don’t think I’ll be taking up race car driving after all… but we’ll see… I did just buy my first set of golf clubs ever, though. :) tags: walden, andlife
News from The Associated Press While “not every kid is a gamer” becomes less and less true, “not every gamer likes the same games” becomes more and more true. Both were themes in the literature when I was researching for my dissertation. tags: gamesined
Addict-o-matic This site looks very cool (and has some features of a product I’ve started moving forward with – I’ll have to adjust). This links to a sample search using “Google Teacher Academy.” Addict-o-matic brings back and displays results from various other services. It’s a somewhat more visual (and customizable) meta search engine I guess. tags: search
Connections 6th Grade GCT Erica Hartman mentioned this out-of-the-box course, so I asked if she had any links she could send me. This document was one: “Connections is a unique and ground breaking class that is a hybrid of writing across the curriculum, critical thinking and analysis, research, technology, communications, problem solving, and current events.” tags: socialsoftware
The Thinking Stick | NSDC and conversations Jeff responded to a comment from me and let me know that this post was links to the origin of the 25% PD figure. I’ll want to cite this in the future, probably for my “Maybe You Should Drive: Taking Control of Your Own Professional Development” session at CUE if not sooner. tags: professionaldevelopment, pd
Video for Education Edition – Google Apps for Administrators If you haven’t seen this yet… it’s great that Google is adding this service to Google Apps, and it’s great that it will be free for education (for a while), but this $10 per user gets ugly really fast in schools. I remember turning down services that wanted $1 per user as too expensive: “Google Video for education will be free to Education Edition customers until March 8th 2009. After March 8th, 2009, the cost of the video service will be $10 per user per year.” tags: video