Weekly Tech Tip:
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- Google Maps
- Custom Eagle Spotting Google Map
- Crowdmap
- OpenStreetMap
- Wikipedia-List of crowdsourcing projects
Video Festival:
Parents Across America - Diane Ravitch from Grassroots Education Movement on Vimeo.
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- Minnesota losing its new teachers (Star Tribune)
- Skype in the Classroom (Network for Teachers)
- The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Test Scorer (Monthly Review)
- They're learning to write, and they've got readers (Pioneer Press)
Blog Carnival:
- The President's Radical Comments on Testing by
- Strictly business? Personal tweets make profs more "credible"
- Evidence that tech use and blogging really relate to increased student achievement Posted by Ronnie Burt on The Edublogger
- Race to Self Destruction: A History Lesson for Education Reformers by Yong Zhao on Yong Zhao Blog
- Obama wants less testing, Dept of Ed wants more testing on Schools Matter
- Top 5 Reasons to Reject CSHB1 #txedbudget #txlege by Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org
Retweetable Tweets:
@ToughLoveforX @anderscj The arts are basic skills, basic forms of expression. They belong in every school, for every child.
DianeRavitch
@DianeRavitch Maybe it's time to inform #parents that they can opt their kids out of #standardizedtests -- especially unreasonable ones
2011teacher
Confirmed? RT @Bh_activist: Alwasat news www.alwasatnews.com is BLOCKED in #Bahrain now. #feb14 #lulu
acarvin
I know it's an April Fools joke, but this crap from Fordham comes across as bitter (and a bit mean spirited): http://t.co/1Epe9Nf
KennethLibby
It takes an amazing salesperson to sell free or very low cost technology when the competition can sell glitz & glitter
mnphysicist
