Monthly Archives: November 2007
We’re Going Nuclear
With the high price of gasoline and the anticipated record cost of fuel oil, today we were tossing around alternative ideas to heating the house this winter. Nuclear power would be the “warmest” heat and there are all kinds of tax … Continue reading
free-reading.net
If you are an elementary school literacy teacher, the free-reading.net is a wiki you should see. Here is what this site is all about: Free-Reading is an ongoing, collaborative, teacher-based, curriculum-sharing experiment. We’re looking to provide a reliable forum where … Continue reading
Lessig at TED
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/187 Here is my favorite copyright reform advocate. Lawrence Lessig is a law professor at Stanford. He is also the founder of Creative Commons and a board member of the EFF.
National Repository of Online Courses – NROC
One of the greatest resources that I am taking away from this conference is the National Repository of Online Courses (NROC). This online library of courses is absolutely free to use by anyone, student, teacher, higher education faculty, home schooler… … Continue reading
Games and Sims
Today I attended a session on the role of games and sims in online learning. The first couple of minutes of the talk were devoted to overcoming the stigma that may be associated with games in the classroom. Some parents and … Continue reading