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 [...]
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 [...]
As programs go, PowerPoint is not terribly difficult to learn. New slide. Insert text. Save. Go. It is routinely used with students as young as the elementary grades and, in some cases, is the hallmark of technology implementation in the school. When teaching PowerPoint to students, it’s not the program itself that is difficult to [...]
Earlier this month, the National School Boards Association published a document called Creating & connecting: Research and guidelines on online social – and educational – networking. What makes this document notable is that is published by a mainstream education organization (as opposed to 3rd-party groups such as the Gates Foundation or the George Lucas Foundation [...]
