October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
By Sarah Schutz (www.ChicksDigGames.com)
Videogames have long been notorious for creating vapid couch potatoes out of children and adults everywhere, luring them in with addictive pixilated gameplay. While educational gaming has existed for quite awhile in the form of computer games, it had yet to break into the realm of the evermore-popular console gaming (Xbox, Playstation [...]
October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
The eLearning Guild have recently released a new report on Learning 2.0 - Learning in a Web 2.0 World. The list of authors represents a blogging who’s who, with contributions from Jane Hart, Tony Karrer, Michele Martin, Mark Oehlert, Sanjay Parker, Brent Schlenker, and Will Thalheimer.
As usual with Guild reports, there’s a good overall response, [...]
October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
Just have to pass along the wonderful blog post — Teaching Without a Script — by SLA English teacher / Athletic Director / Boys Basketball Coach / Slam Poetry Club Sponsor Matthew Kay. Matt has been asked to take part in the NY Times Online Blog “Lesson Plans,” and his first blog entry shows the [...]
June 18, 2008 – 5:34 pm
They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within.
–Leonard Cohen
The model of education from its earliest times was one of mentorship, starting with hunter-gatherers taking their children out on the hunt 100,000 years ago, all the way up to the teaching methods employed at the university [...]
June 18, 2008 – 5:34 pm
Photo: Galleons Lap by zenitpetersburg
[Click here to read Part One.]
So despite the impending bell, the rush to the bus, the administrative fart in the Church of Wonder with that daily detention announcement over the intercom just when we’d arrived, in our Story, at the Enchanted Place - despite all of that, the children agreed to [...]
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
(Education News and Information) Mayor Villaraigosa is heading a group of community leaders to Israel for a weeklong visit The official goal of the visit is for the Mayor to learn from Israels security arrangements and implement them at the Los Angeles airport and seaport The mission also includes information sharing about municipal environmental technology [...]
June 18, 2008 – 5:30 pm
(Education News and Information) Since 1964 NTD Telecommunications has been a leader in the communications industry NTD has a reputation for providing the highest quality of products and customer service in the industryNTD Telecommunications had its humble beginnings 44 years ago in Seattle Washington Its founder Bill Nosworthy was working nights for Great Northern [...]
May 26, 2008 – 8:19 am
(Education News and Information) The International Academy of Design Technology in Seattle wwwiadtseattlecom Academy Seattle is excited to announce some of the latest developments in its Fashion Design program including the launch of a new event an addition to the faculty a promising new student and the Advisory Committee Members for 20089 [...]
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