In the next week or so, I'm going to be taking down this blog and the associated wiki. I clearly don't have the time or will to post here regularly, I need to clean up some of the loose ends I've left, and my meager grad student budget could [...]
It's a big week for conferences.
Sociologist Dan Lortie, in the 1975 book, Schoolteacher, pp. 69-70.
Teaching has not been subjected to the sustained, empirical, and practice oriented inquiry which we find in other university-based professions. It has been permitted to remain evanescent; there is no equivalent to the recording found in surgical cases, law cases, and physical models of engineering [...]
Via if:book, the MacArthur Foundation is putting $2 million of its $50 million Digital Media and Learning Initiative into a competition. There are several interesting pieces here, including the fact they have tracks for 'Innovation' and 'Knowledge Networking.' For the latter, they provide this example:
[A] team of teacher [...]
OLPC, WikiEducator, and friends are starting a program called Summer of Content to encourage creation of open educational resources. It'll run two summers a year--one for each hemisphere--with a test run starting in just a few weeks. In contrast to its inspiration, Google's Summer of Code, SoCon is [...]
Here's an announcement we're sending around today. It was written as an email for teacher listservs. If you're on any lists where it would be appropriate, we'd love some help in spreading the word.
Curriki seeks reviewers and curriculum development projects to join its open source curriculum community. Volunteer and [...]
Here's an interesting development on the social annotation front: The Institute for the Future of the Book has released a WordPress theme called CommentPress that allows for commenting on individual paragraphs, not just the whole post. Each comment section can include multiple threads. For the front page, you can choose [...]
WikiMarion has come a long way in 6 months. Quick background: For 11 years, my old high
school history teacher, Bill Munn, has worked with students on original local history research. He heads the Community History Project, a collaboration between the school system and public library. [...]
Road of Life puts a different and promising twist on open source curriculum. It's a nonprofit organization with an existing curriculum and--brace yourself--staff to coordinate development and outreach. Road of Life is based in Columbus, OH and focuses on health materials. It was founded in 2002 by Rob Emrich [...]
A few weeks ago, I finished the social studies uploading and moved on to high school science--chemistry, physics, and biology. The resources come from a huge collection that has been passed around TFA science teachers for years and now fills 4 CDs. The curator, Brent Maddin, taught for 6 [...]
