If you’re having trouble downloading David’s keynote from k12Online, I got an okay to share this link to my upload of the video so you can download it here. Technorati Tags: k12online, k12online07

Dear Teachers, Please excuse my recent absence. This has just been proposed (and, goodness help Her, accepted). So we’re talking about buying one of these in Oregon next summer, as a summer vacation home between international school gigs evermore. And if we’re lucky, this will follow in a year or two (a nice Korean-American blend, [...]

Marin Independent Journal – Marin educators creating the 21st century classroom 1:1 schools in Marin County to try to pull into a network.  Interesting comments about the “top-down” and “bottom-up” continuum in making integration happen. - post by cburell

newteachergeekday Patrick Higgins‘ wiki for new teachers introduces: Connective Writing Social Bookmarking Flat Classrooms “Ten Essential Tools for Educators” Resources A great professional develpment resource in the quest for classroom conversions.  - post by cburell Flixn.com | Video Everywhere Thanks to Patrick Higgins (who thanks Will Richardson) for this find:  this might be just the peer [...]

World Without Oil :: Document Your Life In The New Reality On online game meant to educate about the “habits of mind”–and action–needed to face the growing oil shortage as wisely as possible. – post by cburell Center for Media and Democracy – Publishers of PR Watch A media watchdog group, keeping an eye (especially) [...]

I just saw this photo on Edge — The Third Culture, my very favorite science and culture online magazine. The Cassini satellite snapped it of Saturn. Steven Pinker gives more background. Notice the speck of light (inset upper left) between the rings? Say hello to home. And say a word of thanks to hard science [...]

hoefler » Research 2.0 Eric Hoefler’s wiki for “research 2.0″–I haven’t checked it out closely, but Patrick Higgins at Chalkdust plugs it, which says something. - post by cburell

Militant ‘Mickey Mouse’ pulled off air – Yahoo! News Mickey Mouse preaches fundamentalist political agenda on children’s show.  Excellent supplement to “authority” and “education” themes of All Quiet on the Western Front, Animal Farm, and V for Vendetta.  - post by cburell TalkShoe™ – Featured Demo Videos This seems the most promising web-based podcasting service I’ve [...]

CriticalThinking.org – Critical Thinking Development: A Stage Theory Interesting paradigm for scaffolding metacognition about critical thinking in the classroom. - post by cburell McREL: Mid-continent for Education and Learning, Content Knowledge Standards and Benchmark Database Good set of standards to guide the editors of the Broken World wiki. - post by cburell Blogger & Podcaster, April 2007 Interesting “flippable [...]

Fascist America, in 10 easy steps | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited Good warmer for World History unit and/or for Animal Farm or V for Vendetta?  By Naomi Wolf - post by cburell