Thursday, August 21, 2008

Seven Questions for Congressional Candidates

Seven Questions for Congressional Candidates
As Congressional races are run nationwide, scientists ask Congressional candidates about health, research, innovation, climate change, education, and water and energy policy. How will they answer?

Metal music educational - artist

Metal music educational - artist
Parents need to be educated on the good influences of heavy metal music and how to deal with teenagers listening to the odd "bad" songs, an artist said on Thursday. Cliff Crabb, vocalist of the South African heavy metal band Agro, said most metal music sympathises with teenagers who are outsiders and teaches children to think for themselves about s

Jill Bolte Taylor Reports on Her Own Stroke Experience

When a neuroanatomist reports on her own experiences during a stroke and her own stroke recovery efforts, then both professionals and other patients can gain insights. This report by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is of absorbing interest. (Patient support groups provide a valuable educational service on the Internet by providing emotional support and information exchanges. Some patient report sites are also starting to provide data of high quality. See the site PatientsLikeMe for some examples.) _____JH

_____

(Via Robin Good The Natural Psychedelic Experience: Right Brain Insight Can Really Change The World. "I have been aware of left and right emispheres brain intelligence since the late 70's, but nothing until now, has had an emotional and cognitive impact on me as big as this performance by Jill Bolte Taylor at the TED Conference this past February." )

 




 

Read more ...

Web Tools 4 U 2 Use

 This is a very BIG collection of categorized web tools. ____JH (Thanks to David Warlick's  2 Cents Worth  for the reference.)

____

"This wiki was created for school library media specialists by Dr. Donna Baumbach and Dr. Judy Lee, University of Central Florida. The purpose is to provide information about some of the new web-based tools (Web 2.0) and how they can be used and are being used by school library media specialists and their students and teachers. Much of the information--including identifying a need for this kind of information--is the result of a survey conducted in 2008 of over 600 school library media specialists about their knowledge and use of web-based tools in library media programs."

"Because WebTools4U2Use is a wiki, you can add information to any page. We encourage you to do so! Add or edit anything that you think will help other library media specialists learn more about Web 2.0 tools and use them creatively and productively in their programs. We've also created special pages for each category of tool so you can share other tools or show others how you and your colleagues are using the tools in your programs, or you can use the "discussion" link at the top of any page."

Continue reading ...

New principals begin work in L.A. mayor's schools partnership

New principals begin work in L.A. mayor's schools partnership
They are hired as part of an ambitious, high-stakes effort to improve some of the lowest-achieving campuses.

Tim Sullivan's first day as Markham Middle School's principal was Monday. He quickly found out that the computers didn't recognize his employee identification number and that he didn't have enough staff to register about 300 sixth-graders for classes the next day.