Borderland » Blog Archive » Small Projects Loosely Joined Doug is seeing similar things: When kids begin to see the connections between what they and others are doing, they’ll become more globally conscious and locally conscientious. . . .I believe that experience is the prerequisite for understanding broader issues, and that students need to connect [...]

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Saving energy on the home front Small things that make a large difference – if large numbers of people overcome laziness and inertia, and simply flip the switch on their chargers, computers, etc. – post by cburell BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Gadgets ‘threaten energy savings’ Ubiquitous access equals ubiquitous [...]

WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: Flexibility of the Mind, Endurance of the Heart Very interesting article about educational games promoting socially conscious learning. - post by cburell

Ning Blog – 8 Steps to Creating a Great Social Network Ning is starting to grow on me….  Thieir blog is fantastic, as this page shows. - post by cburell

Student Press Initiative at Teachers College: About Annotated Thanks to Suzie Boss of Reinventing Project-Based Learning (listen to our podcast here) for the tip. – post by cburell About SPI The Student Press Initiative is designed to develop, foster, and promote writing across the curriculum through student publication. SPI is built upon the premise that [...]

Teen Live Earth ’08 – The Concerts for Global Chilling Global warming campaign and festival for high school students worldwide. Student rock concerts aroud the world on Earth Day 2008 (April 19) to be webcast on this site. Get your city’s student bands involved. Make music and make cooling. (Yes, I’m using del.icio.us to promote [...]

Education: An Innovation Odyssey From the website:Looking for ideas to help you use technology to motivate and inspire? See how teachers around the world use technology in their classrooms to support student learning. – post by cburell Learning Innovation and Technology Consortium From the website: Committed and innovative people can change the world for the [...]

WordPress MU Plugin Thank goodness, a site for plugins for WordPress MU, and not just WordPress! – post by cburell List of the Most Useful WordPress Plugins For Your WordPress blog ! | Don’t know how many of the fantastic plug-ins listed are compatible with WordPress MU, but I’ll try to figure it out. – [...]

Wimba Integrates with Moodle: Podcasting, Voice, Live Classroom Annotated Note to self: follow up on this. From the article: Wimba integration gives Moodle users the ability to: Add a Live Classroom, Voice Board, Voice Presentation Tool, or Wimba Podcaster to any Moodle course from the ‘Add An Activity Module’ drop-down menu Configure Live Classroom and [...]

Unknown News | Lies from the Bush-Cheney administration Partisan? Yes. But also supported by documentary evidence. Could be a resource for Animal Farm, etc. Squealer doesn’t only symbolize Stalinist distorters of the truth, after all.–Clay Political News, Blogs, Humor featuring Republicans, Democrats, Independents and More For social studies and contemporary issues teachers looking for a [...]