June 18, 2008 – 5:34 pm
They had already guessed, all wrongly (but that was okay), how old I was when I first read the book I was sharing with them. Their guesses ranged from five to twelve. When I told them that I was in my thirties, and was reading that book as a peacekeeper in Kosovo, where I carried [...]
June 18, 2008 – 5:34 pm
In my third month of writing here about 21st century education, way back in March 2007, I put the pom-poms down, stopped cheerleading, and started thinking about all the ways schools can kill the learning that is possible when students have a simple laptop and a blog. This snippet from a post from back [...]
June 18, 2008 – 5:34 pm
A quickie: A couple weeks ago, I posted about the fatal weakness of RSS readers - their exclusion of a feed’s comments. Derrick Kwa replied with an offer to send me a no longer available WordPress plugin that shows a post’s comments underneath it. Derrick was kind enough to follow through (and by the [...]
June 18, 2008 – 5:34 pm
Real-time Twitter Search - Tweet Scan
Education for Well-Being gets my vote as one of the most important educational sites on the web, period. Bill Farren makes the videos he posts there, writes lucid and relevant discussions of them, and links to supplementary resources for possible classroom use. His written posts are as well-crafted as [...]
June 18, 2008 – 5:30 pm
Tonight Cabrini Connections will celebrate the end of it’s 15th full school year of providing one-on-one tutoring/mentoring and extra learning to 7th to 12th grade teens living in the Cabrini Green neighborhood of Chicago. Teens will be the speakers, moderators and performers. Awards will be given for leadership, attendance, improvement, etc. You can see [...]
June 18, 2008 – 5:30 pm
I encourage you to take a look at this 3 minute Tutor/Mentor Conference presentation (flash) which was created by two student interns from Korea who have been working at Cabrini Connections for the past few weeks. This illustrates a use of talent to help a non profit tell its story. Talent like this is [...]
June 18, 2008 – 5:30 pm
For the past week I’ve provided charts and graphs that illustrate a strategy for mobilizing business talent to support the entire sector of volunteer based tutoring and/or mentoring programs in Chicago, and in other cities.
Last night the Cabrini Connections tutor/mentor program hosted our 15th annual year end dinner. Speakers included students, alumni, parents, volutneers and [...]
June 18, 2008 – 5:30 pm
(Education News and Information) Palbee today announced the release of a new version of its online video conference service Palbeecom The new service includes several significant improvements including support for up to ten conference participants and the ability to resize the white board or video display window The design of the window and [...]
June 17, 2008 – 12:59 pm
This map shows the location of the Cabrini Connections tutor/mentor program, which serve 7th to 12th grade teens living in the Cabrini Green area of Chicago. I encourage you to read Mike’s article on the Mapping for Justice blog for a hear-warming recap of the event.
Our Korean student interns have created a flash presention [...]
June 9, 2008 – 5:52 am
On Thursday and Friday of this past week the Tutor/Mentor Connection hosted its 29th Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference since May 1994. More than 120 people attended. Some came from California, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Indiana, Pensylvania and many came from the Chicago region and Illinois. You can see a partial list of participants here, which [...]
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