Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Moodle fans everywhere rejoiced yesterday with the release of version 1.6. The new version brings some significant improvements. Here are a few of the ones that matter most to me:

“My Moodle” page now presents a summary of all the work going on in whatever courses a student is enrolled. We have a quite a few […]

I had the privilege of participating in a Web 2.0 panel discussion sponsored by the Digital Media Center at the U. of Minnesota recently. My fellow panelists were David Ernst from the College of Education, Shane Nackerud from the U. library, and Clancy Ratliff from the Department of Rhetoric.
Dave introduced the topic, Shane showed and […]

The Spring 2006 issue of Cable in the Classroom’s Threshold: Exploring the Future of Education features articles focused on New Thinking About High School Reform, produced in partnership with the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. Contributors include: Paul Curtis, New Technology High Jennifer Dounay, Education Commission of the States Kathleen…

I’ll be sitting on the panel for a seminar at the U. of Minnesota in a few weeks discussing Web 2.0. I met recently with my co-panelists and we decided to put our money where our mouths are and use a wiki to organize our presentation and invite input in advance on the topics we […]

Thomas Friedman’s book The World is Flat is all about what is happening now that the digital revolution has made it possible to work instantaneously with people on the other side of the world. One of these possibilities is posted at Wired Newsand describesthe link between 12-year-old Princeton in Glenview,…

Now available at the vSKOOL site is the *new* vSKOOL blog. The vSKOOL blog will post news items and events related to serving students displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, as well as vSKOOL consortium events, activities, and updates. The vSKOOL blog offers RSS syndication. Point your newsreaders here to…

Now available at the vSKOOL site is the *new* vSKOOL blog. The vSKOOL blog will post news items and events related to serving students displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, as well as vSKOOL consortium events, activities, and updates. The vSKOOL blog offers RSS syndication. Point your newsreaders here to…

There’s a movement afoot to provide virtual courses and/or tutoring to students who have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Check out VSKOOL, sponsored by Cable in the Classroom, NACOL, and the SIIA. Kudos to these organizations for their creative response to a horrible situation……

From Why Rural Matters 2005 comes the following policy recommendation: Distance learning is one strategy that has proven to be effective in ensuring that schools and districts are able to provide rich curricula without restructuring and uprooting students and communities. If rural schools and communities are to take advantage of…

From the Public Education Network (PEN): PUBLIC SCHOOLS BEGIN TO OFFER GYM CLASSES ON-LINE The nation’s public schools are rushing to reconfigure scores of traditional courses from basic composition to calculaus so students can take them via the Internet. One of the unlikely new offerings in this vast experiment is…

The Southern Regional Education Board and the BellSouth Foundation are launching a new initiative to help states focus on key policy issues related to online learning, including quality online courses, quality teachers, and funding. The goal of the alliance is to help member states increase students’ access to quality academic…

Windward: Outsmart the Weather in a Race Around the World will launch late summer 2005 as the third in a series of award-winning and FREE online learning objects from Cable in the Classroom created to show the educational power of broadband technology and dynamic cable content. Being developed in partnership…

From the Center for Digital Education: MINNEAPOLIS/EWORLDWIRE/May 27, 2005 — Minnesota Online High School (MNOHS), a new public school opening in September, will offer free online courses taught by licensed Minnesota teachers to students throughout the state. The school will begin by serving students in grades 11 and 12 and…