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Effective Student-Led Parent Conferences

The CoolCatTeacher

Laura is giving away free access to Meego. Sculpted from her experience in economic development, she is passionate about student eportfolios. She is the inventor of Meego®, a cloud-based collaborative platform for artifact collection and eportfolio creation. How Laura keeps up with student work. Selected Links from this Episode.

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. The other spoke of access, public financing, inequalities.

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Marketplace trend update: 5 new ed-tech developments

eSchool News

A new tool for teacher resource sharing, Boom Learning , will help teachers access a collection of teacher-created content for classroom devices. Cricket Media and the Smithsonian have launched the 2016 Global Folklorist Challenge.

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