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2nd Graders Race their Lego Contraptions
I’ve been volunteering in my daughter’ s charter school in past few weeks, working with her second grade classroom. They have been working in teams to build Lego contraptions with a Klutz kit that the teacher purchased for this porject. … Continue reading
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data standards for open repositories
I attended a colloquium yesterday at Harvard (Scholarship in the Digital Age Information, Infrastructure and the Internet) presented by Christine Borgman who was involved in drafting this NSF report issued last July: Fostering Learning in the Networked World: Cyberlearning Opportunity … Continue reading
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Higher Ed and Stimulus
I just took a look at the grants.gov web site where government grants for education funded through the stimulus bill are now available.
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College without Grades
If ever receive my password reset information I wil post this comment to a column and discussion on Jan. 22nd called "Imagining College Without Grades" on Inside Highered ( http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/01/22/grades) "I attended Bennington College where written evaluations were used instead … Continue reading
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Charter Schools out perform Pilot Schools in Boston
The Boston Globe reported today that Boston charter schools are significantly out performing Boston Pilot Schools. The pilot schools are the Mass Teacher Association’s (M.T.A.) version of a the state funded charter schools. The research study published by The Boston … Continue reading
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Gapminder: Visualizing Global Statistical Data
A couple of years ago while producing an event on Mashups, I came across a very cool tool called Gapminder that displays graphical data in a dynamic way. I was fascinated and tried to find more information about it … Continue reading
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Creating course web site with a blog and widgets
Inside Higher Ed published an article (http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/12/08/widgets) examining the trend of using widgets to create course shells today. I’m currently working on creating a f2f course web site with our UMB Blognetwork to provide an example and will post the … Continue reading
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The Anatomy of A Course Designed Like a Video Game
I presented at the Educause conference in Orlando on Friday on a topic I’ve been playing with for a couple of years. I just posted my slides on the Educause web sit and my presentation handouts are posted here: Anatomy Handouts If … Continue reading