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Education week dropped an article about e-learning today: E-Learning Curve. As an online teacher and administrator here are my thoughts. Some advocates of virtual schooling worry that certain states may overreach with measures that stifle innovation. At the same time, recognition seems to be growing about the need to take steps to better foster and [...]

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I spent a large chunk of today converting PowerPoint presentations for a Chemistry class into something that students can use online.  In a perfect world I would have content specialists that were fired up enough to take these from slide-shows to online multi-media presentations, but they’re not there yet, and that’s okay. To make these [...]

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Just in case you’ve already dismissed They Schools (from the previous post): http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/education/28education.html?_r=1&ref=education&oref=slogin Link through Eduwonk

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This is one of the side effects of messing with MySpace. I wanted music on my page, like I’ve seen on so many others. As it turns out MySpace has locked down their player and you can only add certain songs. I wanted to add my own music, which led me to this OpenSource player, [...]

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I’ve had a MySpace account for a few years now. I haven’t done much with it. I’d check in and out of the page that student’s put up for Odyssey and I’d let students add me as a friend if they wanted, but I never added them. Nothing personal, I never added anyone. I spent [...]

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