Even if my recent “Politics Around the Web” posts have turned you off, I hope you noticed that they are a model of a very simple activity for any number of classes – current events, politics, science and math news, more – that want students to read and exhibit critical thinking about what they read. [...]

Finally: read comments and leave your own without leaving your Bloglines BETA! Finally. See the whole blog from your RSS reader (how could you go a week without new papa and writer extraordinaire Scott Schwister beaming at you from his blog? How can you miss my latest “Iraq War Costs” sidebar widget and all the [...]

[Welcome to Beyond School's new home, by the way. This is my first post since leaving Blogger. If you subscribed to the old "BS," please update your feed by subscribing to this new home on my own WordPress install. I'm excited to learn more about customizing WordPress by administering my own blog. You can expect [...]

Google Reader keeps formatting – italics, picture resizing, etc. Bloglines doesn’t. I work on those italics, blast it. (And Bloglines readers, that “work” was italicized.) Why I don’t like any reader I know of right now: They don’t include comments (I know you can subscribe to comments, but it ain’t the same). Readers miss coComments [...]

Pageflakes – your free student and teacher start page I am a complete idiot for not reading Will Richardson religiously. Pageflakes for students and teachers is powerful stuff. – post by cburell Weblogg-ed » Using Pageflakes as Student Portal A gem from Will Richardson on classroom use of Pageflakes. I see a migration coming. – [...]

New Tools for Schools David Jakes‘ excellent intro to web 2.0 for teachers wiki. – post by cburell

How-to RSS: Macromedia Flash (SWF) Movie Nice, but too long? Eide Neurolearning Blog: Better Writing from Text Messaging and Blogging Teens Annotated: From the Times, “Fears that text messaging may have ruined the ability of teenagers to write properly have been shown to be unfounded after a two-year study revealed that youngsters are more literate [...]

Apple Learning Interchange 2007 – 1-1 Learning Annotated 1-1 Learning Resources by and about schools involved in Apple 1-1 Learning Programs. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills – Home Annotated Madison, Wisc. – March 14 – More than 200 business, commerce, government, and education leaders from throughout the state gathered at the Madison Convention Center [...]

An invitation to you to snoop in my new history class website’s pages laying out step-by-step instructions for how to set up and use all the tools listed above to do research. All feedback is welcome. I’m especially keen to hear if anybody can suggest improvements in the process I use to subscribe to del.icio.us [...]

The burn-out I mentioned in my last post showed in the sour title. Apologies for that (and shame on me–life’s too short for sourness). I did “breathe,” as Barbara advised in a comment, and sleep in Saturday. Mental hygiene seems about done; frustration tolerance, refueled. Especially in light of the email I woke to from [...]