links for 2011-06-18
Harvard Education Letter: tech tools for librarians Screenshot from web resource Copia.Volume 27, Number 3May/June 2011 Eight Tech Trends for Librarians (and Teachers too!)By DAVE SALTMAN
Monthly Archive: June 2011
links for 2011-06-16
NSW parliament approves IR bill Blah, this won't help the teaching profession.
518 – Mapping Bloomsday | Strange Maps | Big Think
518 – MAPPING BLOOMSDAY Frank Jacobs on June 13, 2011, 10:39 PM With typically Hibernian hyperbole, James Joyce once claimed that “if [Dublin] suddenly disappeared from the earth, it could be reconstructed from my...
8 ways to celebrate James Joyce and Bloomsday – latimes.com
How could I forget? Dubliners learned and taught for the HSC, Ullyses swotted through at uni, Portrait dabbled in, Finnegan’s Wake circled in fear… All you literarians know that June 16 is Bloomsday, so called...
Education Week: Teachers Hold the Real Keys to Whiteboard Effectiveness
And so say all of us. “Some people think [the IWB] is a magic bullet that will solve everything,” said Patrick Ledesma, a school-based technology specialist and special education department chair at the 746-student...
links for 2011-06-15
The Learning is in the Process Not Outcome | Kapp Notes Thanks, Liam Dunphy, for this one. (tags: elearning) After the email dump [redacted] is history | Hadley Freeman | Comment is free |...
Child migrants sue over abuse atMolong school (The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 Jun 2011, Page9)
SMH: ALMOST 70 former child migrants have launched a class action against the state and federal governments for failing to protect them from alleged physical, mental and sexual abuse during their time at the...
‘Teaching to test’ gets bad report card inUS (The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 Jun 2011, Page5)
SMH: TEST-BASED incentive programs that offer sanctions or rewards for teachers, students and schools have failed to lift student achievement despite several decades of use in the US, says a report by the US...
Background Briefing – 12 June 2011 – Who decides how we die?
Fantastic program and very moving. Also challenging. We will all face this for our loved ones and ultimately ourselves, so understanding our rights is important for us and for our doctors. Who decides...
You have been warned. Global roaming rorts: Australia third worst
One day, I will be able to afford to turn on global roaming in my iPhone. Until then, be warned! Global roaming rorts: Australia third worst Asher Moses June 15, 2011 – 6:24PM Comments...