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Using Blog Tools Since 2006

Learning With Lucie

I would have to say that my experience started in the late 90's when were first learned how to publish on the web using HTML and FTP, but in 2006 when I discovered blogging tool I quickly knew that a new digital portfolio platform had been born. We used Xanga to document our progress on group projects and set goals for each day.

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Classroom Travels with Twitter: An Evolution

Ask a Tech Teacher

I began using Twitter in my classroom soon after its introduction in 2006. The discussion was based on the research of primary and secondary documents and was quite creative. I found creative uses for it in my history teaching, even at that time. Then we would proceed to analyze the reliability of the information.

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PROOF POINTS: Researchers say cries of teacher shortages are overblown

The Hechinger Report

Ninety percent of schools have increased the number of substitute teachers on staff or are trying to, according to a July 2022 RAND report, but schools are struggling to find new hires, feeding into an overall perception of shortages. Credit: Terra Fontriest for The Hechinger Report. The stories are scary.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Note that the last category is the most subjective and one might reasonably argue some reports (including those conducted under contract with the U.S. Please feel free to comment if you believe I’ve missed a key document or piece of crucial information, or if you have a question regarding the context of a specific statement or document.

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To the Citizens of BC

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

Here are some graphs from Statistics Canada: Summary Elementary and Secondary School Indicators for Canada, the Provinces and Territories, 2006/2007 to 2010/2011. Catalogue-no-81-595-M-No-099-Statistics-Canada ).

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With competition up, enrollment down, colleges are spending billions on marketing and advertising

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report. Among the biggest players are online giants including the nonprofit Southern New Hampshire University, which tax documents show spent $144 million on advertising and promotion in 2019. Johns Hopkins reported spending $29.6

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As students return to college, a basic question persists: What are they learning?

The Hechinger Report

Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, called in 2006 for learning to be measured and reported publicly. It’s not that we don’t know what our students are learning as much as it is that we’re having to talk about it, document it, represent it in a broader way for a larger audience.”. Terrel Rhodes, director, VALUE project.

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