Ed Week Officially Announces Their Scheduled Ed Chat With Me Ed Week has officially announced their April 12th Ed Chat with me: Helping Students Motivate Themselves Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 2 p.m. Eastern time You can read more about it, and sign-up for a reminder, at their site. You can read more about my ...
“Making Kids Work on Goals (And Not Just In Soccer)” Making Kids Work on Goals (And Not Just In Soccer) is the title of a new article in the Wall Street Journal, that also includes an interactive and video. It discusses how schools are using goal-setting with students. It has some interesting info, but ...
“Play The News,” The Number One Ranked Learning Game in 2008, Is Back Online Play The News, a current events game where users play roles and make predictions, was the number-one ranking game in The Best Online Learning Games — 2008. Unfortunately, it’s been dormant for quite awhile — until now. They have just relaunched the ...
“Using data for progress, not punishment” Coming Together to Give Schools a Boost is the headline of an article in The New York Times, with a subtitle saying “A group of Cincinnati leaders are improving schools by using data for progress, not punishment.” It describes how schools have been ...
More On Carnivals Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites To Learn About Mardi Gras & Carnivals: Mud carnival: get down and dirty in Brazil’s earthy parade in the town of Paraty is a slideshow from The Telegraph. Carnival Returns To Haiti is a slideshow from ...
Color (Yes, I Said Color) Photos From The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake The San Francisco Chronicle has published newly discovered *color* photos documenting the destruction of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. These are not manually tinted ones — they are one of the earliest actual color photographs. You can see s ...