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New Mexico’s Carlsbad Municipal Schools Expands Relationship with Discovery Education to Support STEM Education

techlearning

New Mexico’s Carlsbad Municipal Schools (CMS) announced today it is expanding its partnership with Discovery Education for 3 more years to support a new K-12 STEM strategy set for implementation in 10 district schools. In addition to STEM Connect, CMS will soon launch the STEM Leader Corp capacity building model.

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Some ideas for Course Management Systems and Apps

Educational Technology Guy

Here is my old classroom site and Physics blog as an example: https://sites.google.com/site/dandradeedusite/Home [link] I also know some teachers who use Google+ as their CMS using Circles and posting resources and announcements there and most teachers are now using Google Drive in some way to host files and share them.

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Colleges Face Investigations Over Whether Their Use of Social Media Follows Accessibility Regulations

Edsurge

As a result, colleges are rolling out social media accessibility standards and training communications staff members to take advantage of built-in accessibility tools in platforms including YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. At colleges, there are hundreds of people responsible for posting content,” Cooper says.

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5 Companies to Watch in 2011

The Electric Educator

Alongside my search for curriculum providers I also began researching content management system (CMS) for virtual schools. While Blackboard dominates the marketplace, BrainHoney is a very impressive CMS geared toward the K-12 market. You can find me on Twitter (@jrsowash), Google+, Linkedin (jrsowash), and YouTube (jrsowash).

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Thank You, Common Sense Ambassadors!

Graphite Blog

A special shout-out goes to our top three ambassadors who went above and beyond, presenting multiple times: Michael Gannon Bayshore Middle School/Middletown Township Public Schools, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey Twitter: @Gannonball. David Lockhart Kennesaw State Iteach Center, Marietta, Georgia Twitter: @bigguyinabowtie.

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Google+ Hangouts: Cool Conversations and BookTalks Without Borders

The Daring Librarian

This is a story about Sister Libraries, Twitter, Google+ Hangout, and connecting kids! See pic below from Tiff) My kids were so impressed with the lovely behaviour & charming Louisiana accents of the CMS kiddos & were urging to connect again! To celebrate this, the next day I sent them the Maryland book! LOVE Amazon Prime!

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You Don't Have to Marry It!

The Daring Librarian

That''s right, the coolest ed tech trends you''ve heard about at conferences, on Twitter, or during a webinar, you know, the ones that may have been leaving you feeling stressed out or inadequate for not jumping in with both feet? Either way - you win! It''s OK to date new technology (or teaching innovation) you don''t have to marry it!