If you haven’t seen the National School Boards Association’s Creating & Connecting: Research and Guideline on Onliline Social – and Educational – Networking, it’s a fast (12 pages) read that might provide your site and/or district administrators with a new perspective on the value of blogs and blogging as a tool for learning. The attention-grabbing statistic for [...]

I logged on to last night’s It’s Elementary just in time to hear guest Wes Fryer talk about some of the research base behind podcasting (for those needing a justification):, i.e., children learn from retelling. From there, it was a continual stream of great discussion and great links. But the last gem came, I think, [...]

The front page of the Sunday Sacramento Bee features the first of a three-part story that I wish every educator – across the state and nation – had access to: Tackling Life – South Sacramento Raiders. Bee staff writer Jocelyn Wiener has followed former team members of the 1992 south Sacramento Raiders Junior Midgets football [...]

I had today off and spent the morning catching up on reading some of my favorite bloggers. That’s when I saw Bud’s mention of the Dan Meyer’s Four Slides Sales Pitch invitation, which Bud stated he would pass on. And that was certainly my inclination too…but then as a read on in my Bloglines reader [...]