Tuesday, February 17, 2009

The Schooldays and Education of Lewis Carroll

C.L. Dodgson, author of Alice in Wonderland, didn't go to school till he was 12. In this article Jenny WOolf describes how he was sent away to boarding school in Richmond, Yorkshire, and the tough life he had in the brutal environment of Rugby School in the 1840s Read the rest ...

69 Learning Adventures

Zaid Ali Alsagoff has organized and edited 69 postings from his weblog Zaidlearn at the ePublishing site Scribd. Zaid's eBook provides many links and many valuable perspectives on the worlds of learning that are available on the Web. ____JH

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After a lot of filtering, I have settled for 69 learning nuggets posted on ZaidLearn, which I believe readers might find useful to their own learning. To make it a bit more convenient to find what you are looking for, I have divided the book into six learning galaxies (or themes), which are:
  • Learning
  • Teaching
  • Stories
  • Free e-Learning Tools
  • Free Learning Content
  • Free EduGames

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Error on test spotted by Kan. student 1 year later

Error on test spotted by Kan. student 1 year later
A high school student's keen eye has caught a state test error that managed to slip past teachers, test coordinators and other students for almost a year.