“Must-Watch” Texas Superintendent Speech Last week, thousands rallied at the Texas State Capitol to protest $9 billion in proposed cuts to education. John Kuhn, superintendent of Perrin-Whitt Consolidated Independent School District, spoke at the rally, and here is a video of his speech: ...
You Can Now Embed “Corkboard Me” I’ve previously posted about Corkboard Me, an easier and more functional Wallwisher-like tool. The site has just announced the ability to embed your virtual bulletin boards. It just keeps on getting better…
More On Storytelling Though some of these new resources are more related to storytelling, I’m still adding them to The Best Digital Storytelling Resources: What All Good Stories Have In Common from Free Range Thinking How to Tell a Story that Feels Your Own in 30 Seconds ...
Some Nice Twitter Resources Here are the newest additions to The Best Resources For Beginning To Learn What Twitter Is All About: An Educators Guide To Twitter, compiled by Steven Anderson. A list of educational chats on Twitter, compiled by Cybraryman. A slideshow on the ...
Today’s Collection Of Good School Reform Articles Here are some good pieces on school reform that have appeared in the last few days: In Performance Evaluations, Subjectivity Is Not Random is from The Shanker Blog. I’m adding it to The Best Articles For Helping To Understand Both Why Teacher Tenure ...
Marzano Cooperative Learning Study The Marzano Research Laboratory has released a study on their website that concluded: *on the average, the use of cooperative learning by teachers in the action research studies was associated with a gain in student academic achievement of 30 ...
“Harvard Thinks Big” Is Like “TED Talks” Harvard Thinks Big is an annual event (started last year) where invited faculty members present ten minute talks. They just posted this year’s presentations on YouTube. And, speaking of TED Talks, I just discovered that there is a YouTube channel ...
This Week’s “Links I Should Have Posted About, But Didn’t” I have a huge backlog of resources that I’ve been planning to post about in this blog but, just because of time constraints, have not gotten around to doing. Instead of letting that backlog grow bigger, I regularly grab a few and list them here with ...
