Tom & Dave's Excellent Adventures - No Country for Old Men Tour

Here's a link to the website that chronicles old guys doing mildly adventurous things. I'll be adding docs and pics from previous trips as time goes by.

Tom & Dave's Excellent Adventures

Some educators question if whiteboards, other high-tech tools raise achievement

Food for thought. I know many of you have Smart Boards, here's a piece that asks some probing questions. For one, "Do whiteboards just allow teachers to teach in the old way with a new device (is the Smart Board just a glorified chalkboard)?" Good question, I think. One measure of change might be to determine if kids are finding ways to use the whiteboards to teach the teacher or other students. What do you think, Smart Board users?

Some educators question if whiteboards, other high-tech tools raise achievement

Wayne's Day | The Forum for Education and Democracy

Many of you have mentioned the pressures of preparing kids to take high stakes exams that are foisted on schools and teachers by No Child Left Behind legislation and other misguided efforts to improve education by testing and punishing schools who can't raise test scores. The author of this article is George Wood who 15 or so years ago was a professor of Education Administration at Ohio University. He was teaching his students how to become public school administrators and decided he did not have the experience to teach others how to run schools in these difficult times. He took a leave from his higher education position and became the principal of Federal Hocking High School. He still has that job as well as being the executive of "The Forum for Education and Democracy". I know George, he is an authentic, "what's-best-for-the-student" educator. Hear what he has to say about high stakes testing and pass it on to everyone who will listen.

Wayne's Day | The Forum for Education and Democracy

Wikispaces - Tours

When instructional time is limited choices have to be made about what to include and what to leave for the next time. Wikis were a casualty of EDUC 675 2010 planning. Several of you have mentioned wikis in your writing and so I've posted a link here to get you started if you are interested. Once you complete the introductory tour you'll find more videos on adding features to your wiki. EDUC 675 2011 will most likely include a wiki project... just have to figure out how to make room for it. Any ideas what to change to make Wikispace? ;-)

Wikispaces - Tours

Education And The Future of Technology

We've all seen similar videos but this one is a bit more professionally done. Would be a great intro to a discussion on why more technology and Web 2.0 tools in school. Perhaps even a discussion on the topic of a total overhaul of how schooling is done. Creativity, collaboration, and problem solving are the skills that will allow our kids to survive in the world we cannot know.

Education And The Future of Technology

The Bear - Film by Jean-Jacques Annaud

If you ever need a story starter... regardless of your grade level, here's a great one. Might be scary for younger kids but I think they would love to re-tell the tale in their own words. What do you think?

The Bear - Film by Jean-Jacques Annaud