Thursday, May 28, 2009

Stadium draw helps SCORES

FOXBOROUGH - Limping through the concourse at Gillette Stadium before a recent New England Revolution game, hobbling on opposite legs and looking like they were tied together for a three-legged race, David and Nicole Chang slowly headed for their seats. Continue reading ...

David Wiley's Open Course on Open Education

David Wiley's Open Course on Open Education
Here's the link the to wiki syllabus for David Wiley's Fall 2007 course about Open Education. There's still time to sign up for this online course. "The goals of the course are (1) to give you a firm grounding in the current state of the field of open education, including related topics like copyright, licensing, and sustainability, (2) to help you locate open education in the context of mainstream instructional technologies like learning objects, and (3) to get you thinking, writing, and dialoguing creatively and critically about current practices and possible alternative practices in open education." Those who don't want to participate in the course will still find value in the online readings and the links to OER sites. ____JH

Education panel kills attempt to raise standards for sports, activities (The Shreveport Times)

Education panel kills attempt to raise standards for sports, activities (The Shreveport Times)
BATON ROUGE -- Even the support of the governor, the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the superintendent of education wasn't enough to sway the House Education Committee to increase academic requirements for participating in high school sports and other activities.