Gapminder is data visualization tool. Yes, it sounds a little dull when you put it that way, but when coupled with a mountain of socio-economic and demographic data, it is an unbelievable picture of our world. It is an excellent resource for charting and comparing data on countries around the world and looking at the [...]
By way of eTech Ohio: “eTech Ohio is seeking applications for competitive professional development grants in the amount of $20,000 each to teachers in grades 9-12. These grants will support the creation and use of electronic portfolios (ePortfolios) in Open Source Portfolio (OSP). As part of this two-year grant, school building(s) within a district may [...]
RSS is a term probably unfamiliar to most, both in and out the education field. You may have noticed a “subscribe by RSS” option in the lefthand column of the blog’s main page. Same idea. The folks at Common Craft have a series of “In Plain English” videos where they describe some recent web tools [...]
Tri-County ESC is offering a technology integration class series targeted toward middle and high school grades teachers. During the 4 face-to-face sessions participants will explore topics such as: information literacy presentation skills online publication media online learning environments and best practice (e.g. Moodle) Complementing the face-to-face sessions, is an online component to the course designed [...]
David Warlick at 2ยข Worth lays out some simple points on writing to communicate. These tips apply particularly well to writing for an online audience where page width can range from around 8 inches to at least twice that, making for extremely long lines, and where typical visual landmarks/cues, like left and right pages, page [...]
The Ohio Treasure Chest, a website created by the tech staff at North Canton City Schools, contains a wealth of standards-organized resources as well as curriculum connections, lesson plans, and assessments. Thousands of resources have been identified by other educators as being useful tools for teaching many of the indicators in each grade level. I’ve [...]
If you could customize the search results for your class searches would you do it? How would you tweak the results? Would you select a list of sites to search? Specify sites that should get preferred listing? A list of sites to leave out of the search? Google’s Custom Search allows such customization. With Custom [...]
Sitting in a chair earlier today with my son and daughter looking over my shoulder watching a video on YouTube of the late greats, James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti, in a concert setting with full orchestra and a packed house…. And my daughter asks, “Can they hear us?” “No,” I reply, not for once having [...]
Scott McLeod (one of my favorite education/technology/leadership bloggers) has pointed out the availability of [free] tutorials on data analysis at School Data Tutorials. “The tutorials on the web site highlight many of the Excel skills that are helpful when working with building- and district-level data. The tutorials are targeted at data managers, principals, guidance counselors, [...]
