Thanks to Gary Stager for sending me the following video of Nicholas Negroponte talking about rethinking global education based on learning rather than teaching.The current experiment he describes in the video--to see if the millions of children i... read more

Cross-posted to: GETIdeas.org Whenever I think of assessment in the classroom, I am reminded of a rubric I created a long time ago to go along with a short writing assignment for my grade eight Language Arts class. You can see it below. Many would... read more

Stop Disasters GameTags: science, interactive, simulation, disasters, geography, environment, game, educationAustralian Collaboration - Fact SheetsFact & Issue SheetsA fair and sustainable AustraliaThe fact and issue sheets provide short summaries... read more

HELLOSLIDE is a site I heard about very recently and was meaning to try out. The site allows you to add voice to your presentations, but NOT YOUR VOICE. What you do is: you upload your presentation in PDF, type the text which you would like to hea... read more

Hackasaurus Mess around with web pages. This is from David Warlick's post on Educon that I posted as part of the daily news. You're not REALLY changing the page but changing it locally on your machine, but is is still a lot of fun. There are also... read more