I recently attended in Sioux Falls a Google Workshop for Educators and it was phenomenal!
The workshop was facilitated by three fully certified Google Educators who also happen to be full-time teachers in their own right. Two from California and one from Colorado. I appreciated this as they were very open about how they implement the [...]

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You’ve heard about Twitter and maybe you’ve even signed up for an account. You’re new to the microblogging world; therefore you don’t want to make amateur mistakes. On her blog “Little Pink Book PR” Sasha H. Muradali (@SashaHalima), shares a post from guest blogger Stephen Pinto on what NOT to do on Twitter. http://ow.ly/oZfn

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This year, America’s Promise Alliance through Volunteers of America-Dakotas is partnering with the Office of Indian Education to offer the 2009 Indian Education and Dropout Prevention Summit in Rapid City, SD.  This event will focus on best practices and model program for keeping students in school, social issues surrounding dropout rates, asset building to prevent [...]

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Honestly, I always kind of thought that it was okay to have a more protected environment regarding the Internet in K-12 school settings.  But then I listened to a discussion about access versus control (again) and I realized something.  Filtering sometimes goes beyond protection to truly interfere with learning.  And that’s when my age old [...]

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Will Richardson is changing the dialogue he has with his own children regarding school. Instead of asking, “what did you do today in school?” he’s come up with new, thought-provoking questions. Read his post here: http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/what-did-you-create-today/

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