Wednesday, August 27, 2008

NACOL KeepingPace 2007 Report

This is John Watson's most current "Keeping Pace" report. . .

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NACOL National Primer on K-12 Online Learning

This is a pretty extensive report put together by John Watson, Evergreen Consulting Associates:

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K-12_Online_Learning.pdf (application/pdf Object)

This is the Sloan-C Survey of U.S. School District Administrators from 2007, and "[t]he purpose of this study was to explore the nature of online learning in K–12 schools and to establish base data for more extensive future studies." Interesting stuff.

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

New tool

I'm posting this blog to test the intense debate tool.

Monday, June 30, 2008

Voki

I added the "Voki" dynamic avatar (see right) to the blog today. I think it has some real potential classroom use.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Mar's day in Puerto Rico. Sheesh.

  1. On my way to go hiking in el yunque rainforest.
  2. Went swimming in a waterfall. Just beautiful.
  3. Lunch at a little mountain shack. fried plantains stuffed with crab and pina coladas. Yum.

(extracted from three separate tweets from throughout the day)