baby octopus salad

good stuff, triple color panel.

it only two a few days to finally get this posted in ecto….

Memory of the World:
UNESCO’s Memory of the World program aims at preservation and dissemination of valuable archive holdings and library collections worldwide.
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great idea…

Chaos in the Classroom:
It won’t always be called chaos in the classroom. It will soon be known as interactive, hands-on, collaborative, personalized learning with choice. Just not soon enough.
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the question though… is whether it will be called ‘good’… by whom, and for whom. I’d generally think that this is good in general… it fosters collaboration, discovery and creativity, which is the backbone of the economy much more than sitting still in a chair, working on your own project, which seems much more inclined to train people to be office workers at best and assembly line workers minimally.

Program offers teachers summer jobs at IT companies – Jacksonville Business Journal::
A local organization has created a program to place high school and community college teachers in summer internships in a high demand field, with the hopes those teachers will bring first-hand experience back to the classroom.

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this is smart.

Wiki Project Shut Down:
is part of the reason why I was tremendously disappointed to read today that his students have lost contact with a group of students across the country when a parent from the out of state class complained. As I said when I left a comment on Ben’s blog, I was disappointed, but not totally surprised. I knew someone was going to get criticized for hooking their students up with others somewhere for some reason.

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it is truly sad when a parent’s fear… ruins the lives and learning of current and future students.